Posts Tagged: Poland Jews
Poland-Israel Meltdown Demands Elisha Wiesel’s Intervention
In March, we will hold our annual gala, celebrating Israel’s 70th anniversary. The Elie Wiesel Defender of Israel Award will posthumously be given to Yoni Netanyahu, who...
Europe’s Populist Right-Wing Parties Are Like the GOP in America — and Jews Should Engage With Both
The surge of right-wing populism in Europe is often compared to the rise of Fascism during the 1930s. Jewish community leaders have thus rushed to...
Poland and Its Jews
Poland recently passed a law making it illegal and a criminal offense to claim that the Nazi death camps built during the Second World War on Polish territory...
Swastikas, Slurs Daubed on Polish Embassy in Tel Aviv Amid Ongoing Holocaust Bill Row
Swastikas and profanities were daubed on the entrance to Poland's embassy in Israel on Sunday after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Jews, as well...
March of the Living Will Continue Trips Despite Polish Bill Denying Complicity in Holocaust
JNS.org - The International March of the Living, an educational initiative that has brought more than 250,000 participants to visit concentration camps in Poland, has announced...
Poland, Jews and the Kielce Pogrom — of 1946
I was somewhat understanding when the Polish cabinet recently approved a bill that would criminalize the use of the phrase “Polish death camps” in reference to Nazi-run...
Polish-Jewish Relations: A Case Study in What Can Go Wrong
One day, I fear that what is currently happening in Polish-Israeli and Polish-Jewish relations will become a case study for how an outwardly strong partnership can unravel...
Poland and the Jewish World: A Defining Moment
When I went to my first Polish-Jewish encounter -- in Chicago, in the early 1980s -- I was struck by how thin the veneer of relationships was. While...
Polish Nationalist Leader Denounces Antisemitism, Lauds Israel
JNS.org - The head of Poland’s right-wing nationalist Law and Justice Party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, denounced antisemitism on Monday and lauded the “great state” of Israel during...
Defending Bid for World War II Reparations From Germany, Poland’s Deputy PM Appeals for Jewish Understanding
To anyone who has followed Polish politics since the turn of this century, the strident language that marked 2016's political earthquakes -- from Brexit to the...
Why the AJC Is Going to Poland
I grew up in a home that was hardly pro-Polish. Poland was seen as a country where antisemitism was historically widespread, and -- at times...
Snapshots of the Kraków We Lost
It has been said that the Shtetl was created twice. Once hundreds of years ago as a place for Jews to live -- usually at the...
Holocaust Survivor of Nine Concentration Camps, Purveyor of Message About Nazi Atrocities, Dies at Age 91
A Holocaust survivor who spent his teenage years in nine different concentration camps before moving to the US, becoming a successful businessman and attempting to educate...
Jedwabne 75 Years Later
There are few sites as divisive and emotionally stirring as Jedwabne, especially when dealing with contemporary Polish-Jewish relations. Jedwabne is the name of the city where...
