Poland suffered an exceedingly brutal Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Close to five million Polish citizens lost their lives as a resu...
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Feb 24, 2011
Mark
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This is not a beautifully written book . It more of an academic work, a hugely important one, that should be read by as wide an audience as possible. Readers should struggle through its painstaking prose to take on board its importance and its attempt to understand how most human beings will behave, given the right circumstances - in this particular case, under Nazi occupation and its immediate aftermath.
Fear by Jan Gross focuses tightly on the phenomenon of anti-Semitism in Poland More...
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Feb 06, 2011
George
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During WWII, ninety percent of Poland’s Jewish population disappeared – exterminated by the Nazis, primarily in their infamous death camps. This is the story about what happened to the surviving ten percent (approximately 200,000 – 300,000) when they returned to their native Poland after the war ended. They were greeted by a wide range of anti-Jewish practices: they were threatened, they were prevented from reclaiming their property, and, in one particularly violent episode – the pogrom in Kie
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Feb 06, 2011
Caro
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I listen a lot about this book, how controversial, how terrible it is...
This book pretend toput polish people in shame, to make them feel bad...
And in some extend he made it... I am half polish and when I just start to read the book I was thinking that I may feel bad about it that maybe, polish people are not that great, and more of the opposite...
But the book was dissapointing inseveral ways, first, the way was written, is very unconfortabble to read that have foodnots, and n More...
This book pretend toput polish people in shame, to make them feel bad...
And in some extend he made it... I am half polish and when I just start to read the book I was thinking that I may feel bad about it that maybe, polish people are not that great, and more of the opposite...
But the book was dissapointing inseveral ways, first, the way was written, is very unconfortabble to read that have foodnots, and n More...
Jul 31, 2011
Kirsten
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Overall, this is an interesting book about a little-known aspect of 20th-century history. The history in the book is excellent, and I would definitely recommend it for that reason. Be advised, though, that many of Gross's concluding attempts to theorize the continuation of anti-Semitism after the Holocaust in Poland do not fit well with what we know of human psychology. His overall theory that Poles victimized Jews because they had gained resources and status from the Jews' misfortune is stro
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Feb 19, 2010
Anna
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Przeczytałam tą książkę długo po gorącej dyskusji wokół niej, która odbyła się z dwa lata temu. Jest to głównie przedstawianie relacji świadków, głównych bohaterów wydarzeń, dokumentów urzędowych przeplatanie formami interpretacji. Nie zachwyciła mnie mimo całej swojej otoczki. Książka Wokół strachu. Dyskusja o książce Jana T. Grossa tego samego autora jest dużo lepsza i zawiera jedynie cytaty z artykułów, dokumentów i relacji bez żadnych komentarzy.
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Jul 05, 2007
Betsy
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The absolute worst in human capacity for cruelty and violence. Very well written, very interesting, very disturbing.
Same basic side note as with "Neighbors": Jews living in Poland have recently told me that - while his facts are absolutely correct - they felt his books have given an overall inaccurate impression of Polish anti-Semitism and that the books have implied that this continues, at the same level, today. That is, they felt it's not as primitive and prevalent but th More...
Same basic side note as with "Neighbors": Jews living in Poland have recently told me that - while his facts are absolutely correct - they felt his books have given an overall inaccurate impression of Polish anti-Semitism and that the books have implied that this continues, at the same level, today. That is, they felt it's not as primitive and prevalent but th More...
Dec 16, 2009
dota
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i was reading this book when there was huge discussion about it in Poland, honestly i like it but to my knowledge Gross sometimes do not meet with historical facts. any way i think i gave me an overivew of historical events which took part in Poland after second WW
Jun 04, 2009
Gosia
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Thsi book is very scary. Few people realized how bad it was for the Jews in Poland right after the war. This book made me ask more questions about the depth of antisemitic sentiments in Polish society. Deperssing, but fascinating.
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