TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stanisław Krajewski
PY  - 2024
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2364-1975
SN  - 9783631921876
TI  - Small Numbers, Big Presence: Jews in Poland after World War II
DO  - 10.3726/b22249
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1485740
N2  - In this path-breaking book, he reflects on the evolution of Polish Jewry in these years against the background of its enormous contribution to Jewish religious traditions and its tragic fate in the Holocaust. A Jewish community, ‘small in numbers’ but with a ‘big presence’, continues to function in Poland. This book is essential reading for all those who wish to understand this remarkable phenomenon. Antony Polonsky, Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University Small Numbers, Big Presence is history rooted in assiduous dispassionate research, but no less, in passionate commitment to Polish Jewry. As much Pole as Jew, Stanislaw Krajewski was a witness to Poland’s postwar Jewish renaissance and the Jews’ de-assimilation. A frontliner in many struggles and triumphs, he tells the story with an insider’s knowledge of the intricacies of events and personalities. Moshe Rosman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel The most important is Stanisław Krajewski’s ability to capture complex phenomena with often mutually exclusive interpretations in a surprisingly new and original way. Stanisław Obirek, Professor at the American Studies Centre, University of Warsaw
KW  - Polish Jews, Post-war Poland, Jewish Communists, Assimilation, De-assimilation, Holocaust uniqueness, Interfaith dialogue, Jewish-Christian relations, POLIN museum, John Paul II, Jews and Christianity
LA  - English
ER  -