The Polish language version of Fear: anti-Semitism in Poland, the book by Jan Gross, has just been published here, two years after the English version. Polish historians have jumped on it, calling it "speculative" and reinforcing a tired old stereotype of the anti-Semitic Pole. But worryingly, a Polish prosecutor is reading the book to see if Gross has "slandered the Polish nation".
Posted on The Beatroot.
Monday 14 January 2008
Fear in Poland
