Polish-Jewish Relations: 1,300 Keyword-Phrase-Indexed Book Reviews (by Jan Peczkis)



Communism Profoundly Entangled With Jewish Society and Jewish Political Life

Jews Communism Natural. “Persecution of Jews” is Not Why Jews Went For Communism!

The Dynamics of Communism in Eastern Europe, by R. V. Burks. 1961. Princeton University Press, New Jersey

Jews Communism Natural. Zydokomuna Not Driven by "Jews are Persecuted" This book shows that, at least through 1961, the association of Jews and Communism was not a forbidden subject, even at top American…

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Communism in Poland–A Jaw-Dropping Jewish Obsession

Zydowskie Ugrupowania Wywrotne w Polsce, by Rudolf Korsch (Kazimierz Krippendorf). 1925. Warszawa

Communism in Poland--Jewish. Disguised as a Huge Jewish Socialist Party (the Bund) JEWISH SUBVERSIVE GROUPS IN POLAND is the title of this Polish-language book written by a Polish Jew. This gem of a book is not well known…

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Rare Accepted Judeo-Bolshevism Liability. Lithuanian Revenge Extent

Jews, Lithuanians and the Holocaust, 2nd Edition, by Alfonsas Eidintas. 2012. Tauropolis, Vilnius

Accepted Judeo-Bolshevism Liability--By a Lithuanian Jew Who Went Through the Holocaust! This "meaty" book covers many issues. I focus on those that are not commonly presented. AN EXOTIC RARITY: A JEW THAT RECOGNIZES THAT JEWS HAVE PROVOKED…

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BIG BULLETIN: CONFRONTING ZYDOKOMUNA DENIALISM AND JEWISH EXCULPATIONS

 

  • The "Jewish Communists were not real Jews" Zydokomuna denialism is laughable. What were they? Martians? It is not even self-consistent. A Jew deemed apostate is still a Jew (Zborowski 1952) and a Jew, no matter how far removed from Judaism, still possesses a PINTELE YID (spark of Jewishness)…

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BIG BULLETIN: ZYDOKOMUNA VERY MUCH MAINSTREAM IN JEWISH POLITICS

 

  • "Few Jews Were Communists" because "Communist Parties were small" is doubly disingenuous. Communist Parties were small because they were usually illegal (Schatz 1991). Moreover, for every card-carrying Jewish Communist there was, in the Jewish community, a host of fellow travelers, supporters, facilitators, and aiders and enablers (Schatz 1991).
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Zydokomuna Exculpation Fails. Zydokomuna: Jewish Socialist-Communist Fuzzy Boundary. Jewish Atheism. Sunday Closing Laws. Schechita Law Rational. YIVO Leftist Bias. Bacon

The Politics of Tradition: Agudat Yisrael in Poland, 1916-1939, by Gershon C. Bacon. 1997

The "Polish Friendly" Agudists Were Nevertheless Separatists. Sunday-Closing Law. SCHECHITA Law. Nebulous Boundary: Jewish Socialists and Communists. Cardinal Hlond Was Right on Jewish Atheism NO BLACK AND WHITE IN POLISH-JEWISH RELATIONS The author begins with…

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Zydokomuna Cause: Jewish Internationalism and Materialism. Journalism and Jews. Why Jews Expelled From Many Nations. Jewish Profiteering. Belloc

The Jews, by Hilaire Belloc. 1922

Jews Expelled From Nations. A Well-Reasoned 1920's Catholic Traditionalist View of Jews. Insights into Polish-Jewish Antagonisms Nowadays, the pre-Vatican II view of Jews is unilaterally demonized. In light of this, the reader may be surprised at the measured reasoning and even-handedness of this devout…

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Zydokomuna Exculpation Fails: It Had Deep Jewish Roots. Jewish Self-Criticism. Holocaust Blame Game. Jews are Adam. Porat

Israeli Society, the Holocaust and its Survivors, by Dina Porat. 2008

Holocaust Blame Game (Even Jews Against Other Jews). Zydokomuna Had Deep and Broad Jewish Roots This work begins with basic information on the Holocaust. The reader learns that, although the Nazi decision to exterminate the Jews was not…

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Zydokomuna Cause: Jewish Elitism and Power. Antigoyism. Canned Jewish Exculpations Fail. “Jews Were Oppressed” Inadequate. Cohen

Jewish Radicals and Radical Jews, by Percy S. Cohen. 1981

Jewish Communism (Zydokomuna) Stems From Jewish Elitism and a Drive For Power, Not From Some Special Jewish Oppression or Special Jewish Appreciation of Injustice The title of this book is a little off. The book is as much about…

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Zydokomuna: Jewish Socialist-Communist Fuzzy Boundary. Yiddishist Movement Enshrines Jewish Separatism. August Hlond Correct. Fishman

The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture, by David E. Fishman. 2005

Jewish Socialist-Communist Fuzzy Boundary. Yiddishists and Jewish Atheism In my review, I do not limit my analysis to the book itself. I extend the content to broader issues of lasting relevance. This work goes beyond Yiddishist developments. It contains…

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Zydokomuna Exculpation Fails: Were Real Jews–The PINTELE YID (Spark of Jewishness) Always Remains. Jewish Views: Holocaust God Punished the Jews. Talmud: Hitting a Jew Equals Hitting God. Telushkin

Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History, by Joseph Telushkin. 2014

Communist Jew is a Real Jew: Top Jewish Communist Lazar Kaganovicz Remains a Jew. A Rarity: The Rebbe Supported American Public School Prayer. Talmud: Attacking a Jew Equals Attacking…

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Judaic AntiChristianity. Sunday Closing Laws. Zydokomuna: Jewish Socialist-Communist Fuzzy Boundary. 1939 Soviet-Serving Militia. Rabban

The Dereczin Memorial Book, by Yekhezkiel Rabban (ed.) 1966, 2000. Dereczin Organizations in Israel and the United States, New Jersey

Bundists (Mainstream Jewish Socialists) Supported Bolshevism. 1939 Soviet-Serving Militia Disarms Polish Soldiers This yizkor (yizker) book is especially instructive in showing the Jewish attitudes toward Communism. It also shows that…

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Zydokomuna: Jewish Socialist-Communist Fuzzy Boundary. Semantics on Mensheviks, Bolsheviks, Social Democrats, etc. Working Class Rhetoric. Halfin

Stalinist Confessions, by Igal Halfin. 2009. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh

Mensheviks Bolsheviks: Communism Was Broad-Based, Not Just Consisting of the Bolsheviks We sometimes hear the exculpation that there were more Jews involved among the Social Democrats and the Mensheviks than there were among the Bolsheviks. But no matter: The…

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Zydokomuna Exculpation Fails: Were Real Jews. Zydokomuna: Broad Jewish Following. Use of Bribery. Jewish Middleman. Draft Dodging. Poles Experienced Pogroms Too. Kugelmass

From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry, by Jack Kugelmass (Editor), Jonathan Boyarin (Editor). 1998

Bribery in Action. Economic Rivalry. Evasion of Military Service. Poles Also Experienced WWI Pogroms (But It's Never Called That). Post-WWII Killings of Unmentioned Poles as Well as Oft-Mentioned Jews This work,…

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Zydokomuna Exculpation Fails: It Was Not Marginal! Zydokomuna: Broad Jewish Following. Jewish Separatism Persists. Moorstein

Zelva Memorial Book, by Yerachmiel Moorstein (ed.) 1981, 1992. Zelva Committee in Israel, New Jersey

Communist Sympathies a Significant Force Among Poland's Pre-WWII Jews The town of Zelva is located near Grodno, in present-day Belarus. It had been part of the Russian-occupied Kresy (eastern Poland) since the Partitions, and was…

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Zydokomuna: Broad Jewish Following. Zydokomuna: Jewish Socialist-Communist Fuzzy Boundary. Jews 1968. Brossat

Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism, by Alain Brossat and Sylvia Klingberg. 1983, 2016.

Jewish Democratic Socialists Effortlessly Shed Their Professed Democracy and Became Communists I focus on a few items of lasting importance. DEBUNKING THE SILLY EXCULPATORY ARGUMENT THAT JEWISH COMMUNISTS WERE "NOT REALLY JEWS" Authors Brossat…

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Zydokomuna Exculpation Fails: Broad Jewish Following. Communization of Poland’s Jewish Masses. Jewish Atheism. Shulman

The Old Country, by Abraham Shulman. 1974

The Zydokumuna Was Not Something Marginal: It Had Deep Roots in Judaism and a Broad-Based Following Among Poland's Jews The many pictures of this book, generally dating from the period 1860-1920, hearken back to a simpler time. They make it obvious that,…

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Zydokomuna in Jewish Schools. Why Polish Non-Support. Jews Generally Avoid Physical Labor. Eisenstein

Jewish Schools in Poland, 1919-39: Their Philosophy and Development, by Miriam Eisenstein. 1950

Why Should Polish Government Have Supported Jewish Schools That Were Hives of Separatism, Sedition, and Communism? It Did Support Those Jewish Schools That Fostered Jewish Loyalty to Poland This work is important not only in terms of…

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Zydokomuna Exculpation Fails: Were Real Jews. Jewish Atheism and Communism Go Hand-in-Hand. Biale

Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought, by David Biale. 2010

The Commonly Condemned Polish Cardinal August Hlond Was Right About Jews and Freethought This book presents a good overview of its intended subject. SECULAR AND ATHEIST JEWS ARE FULLY JEWS. ROOTS OF COMMUNISM The author cites…

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Bombshell: Average Jew Better Off Than Average Pole. Zydokomuna Cause: Jewish Elitism and Power. Jewish Middleman Eliminated. Liebman

Jews And The Left, by Arthur Liebman. 1979

Jews Better Off Than Most People in Tsarist Russia. Zydokomuna Rooted in Jewish Elitism This work is much more than its title suggests. It includes details about Jewish life in late 19th-century tsarist Russia, and how it impacted the growth…

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Communism Was Violent: Jews Knew Very Well. Zydokomuna Exculpation Fails. Jewish Memorial Books (Yizkor Books) Questionable. Heller

Jabotinsky's Children: Polish Jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism, by Daniel Kupfert Heller. 2017

Debunks the Exculpatory Myth That Jews Got Involved in Communism Without Knowing About Its Violent Character This book contains a wealth of information. I focus on a few salient matters. JEWS AND COMMUNISM (ZYDOKOMUNA): THE…

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Zydokomuna Exculpation Fails: It Had Deep Jewish Roots. Consistent Jewish Hostility to the Polish State. Sexual Morality Undermined. Jacobs

Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland, by Jack Jacobs. 2009

Polish Cardinal August Hlond (1936) Was Right: Poland's Jews Were Steeped in Communism, and Were Otherwise Hostile to the Polish Nation. Jewish Disloyalty in 1920 War Although this work does not approach the Bund from the viewpoint of its impact…

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Zydokomuna Cause: Special Rights Sought. The Yiddishist Movement and Communism. Estraikh

Yiddish and the Left: Papers of the Third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish, by Gennady Estraikh. 2017

The Yiddishist Movement (including in USA) and Its Deep Entanglement With Soviet Communism. Its Goal: Special, Separatist Rights for Jews Consider some salient points relative to the Zydokomuna which, as we…

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Zydokomuna Exculpation Fails: Were Real Jews. Judaism Gets Communized, Not Abandoned. Shternshis

Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939, by Anna Shternshis. 2006

An Inadvertent Riposte To The Rather Silly Exculpatory Argument That Jewish Communists Were "Not Really Jews" The eye-opening book upends the notion that Jews of the Soviet Union had been Jews in name only. They…

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Zydokomuna Permeated Jewish Politics. Zydokomuna in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Openly Supported Soviets Over Poland! Nazi-Spared Jews. Arens

Flags Over the Warsaw Ghetto: The Untold Story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, by Moshe Arens. 2011

Communism Infected Much of Pre-WWII Jewish Political Life. It Was Not Marginal Among Jews! Holocaust Uniqueness Upended. The ZZW in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising This work focuses on active hostility against the ZZW…

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Zydokomuna Cause: Mutated Messianism. Communism as an Earthly Messianic Kingdom. Petuchowski

Prayerbook Reform in Europe: The Liturgy of European Liberal and Reform Judaism, by Jakob J. Petuchowski. 1969

The Jewish Concept of An Earthly, Messianic Kingdom: A Readily-Mutable Antecedent of Modern Zionism and Communism (Zydokomuna) This book gives considerable detail on how early Reformed Judaism, in 19th-century Germany, changed some of…

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Zydokomuna Exculpation Fails: It Was Not Marginal to Judaism! Zydokomuna: Broad Jewish Following. Were Real Jews. HOLODOMOR Jewish Complicity. Deutscher

The Non-Jewish Jew, by Isaac Deutscher. 1982

Jewish Communist Explodes the Exculpatory Myth That Jewish Communists Were "Not Really Jews". HOLODOMOR: Jewish Complicity. Zydokuma Not Marginal This is a thought-provoking book. The author teaches us what it means to be a non-traditional Jew, and a Communist, but nevertheless certainly…

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Zydokomuna Influence Far Beyond Percentages. Aggressive Jewish Separatism. Gitelman

The Quest for Utopia: Jewish Political Ideas and Institutions Through the Ages: Jewish Political Ideas and Institutions Through the Ages, by Zvi Y. Gitelman (Contributor). 1992

Jewish Revolutionaries Had a Much Greater Impact Than Their Numbers Suggest. The Zydokomuna Wore Many Political Guises. Jewish Germanophilia This work is much…

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Zydokomuna Exculpation Fails: Jews Knew Very Well That Communism Was Totalitarian. Mendelsohn

Essential Papers on Jews and the Left, by Ezra Mendelsohn (Editor). 1997

Zydokomuna "Poland's Jews Didn't Know Communism Was Violent and Totalitarian" Exculpation Debunked This book centers on personages and political movements. It features the philosophy of Moses Hess and Ber Borokhov, the anti-Semitism of the Jew Karl Marx, etc.…

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International Jewry Backs Communism: Jewish Influence Created a Pro-Soviet American Opinion. Ginsberg

How the Jews Defeated Hitler: Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism, by Benjamin Ginsberg. 2013

Jewish Influence Played a Major Role in Re-Shaping American Public Opinion in a Pro-Soviet Direction--and Moreover BEFORE Pearl Harbor. The Yalta Sellout of Poland Was a Consequence A notable…

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Zydokomuna Exculpation Fails: Pogroms Defended If They Were Soviet-Serving! Zydokomuna: Were Not Rejected by Parents, Zydokomuna Permeated Jewish Politics, and Supported the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Hoffman and Srebrnik

A Vanished Ideology: Essays on the Jewish Communist Movement in the English-Speaking World in the Twentieth Century, by Matthew B. Hoffman and Henry F. Srebrnik (eds.) 2016. SUNY Press, New York

Pogroms Defended! The Extraordinary Broad Support For Communism Throughout the World's Jewry Anyone who still thinks the Zydokomuna was…

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Zydokomuna Cause: Willful Blindness. International Jewry Backs Communism: American Jews Openly Endorse Soviet Communism. Srebrnik

Dreams of Nationhood: American Jewish Communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan Project, 1924-1951, by Henry Felix Srebrnik. 2010

Forget Conspiracy Theories. "International Jewry" in Action. Open and Large-Scale American Jewish Support for Soviet Communism The amount of research for this work, in old American Yiddish publications, borders on the staggering.…

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