Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 21: 1968 Forty Years After

In the mid-1960s, public opinion in Poland turned against the Gomulka regime for a variety of reasons. In an attempt to regain public support and divert attention from the real problems, Gomulka adopted an antisemitic stance. On 19 March 1968 he delivered a speech to party activists in which he divided Jews into three categories: 'patriotic Jews', 'Zionists', and those who were neither Jews nor Poles but 'cosmopolitans', who should 'avoid those fields...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904113362
• ISBN13: 9781904113362
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Length: 550 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"