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



Judaism: Racism and Universalism. Some Jewish Self-Criticism

Polish Antisemitism: Limited and Rational. Repulsive Jewish Business Practices. Johnston

Travels Through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland: Along the Southern Shores of the Baltic (Classic Reprint), by Robert Johnston. 1815

Don't Blame Everything on Poles. British Visitor to 19th-Century Partitioned Eastern Poland Comments On the Everyday Behavior of Poland's Jews My review is based on…

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Nakba: Time-Worn Pro-Israeli Myths (“Palestinians Not Real”)

The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, by Rosemary Radford Ruether and Herman J. Ruether. 1989. Harper & Row, Publishers, San Francisco

Pro-Israeli Myths: The Jewish Victim Card and Delegitimizing the Palestinians The authors are neither Jewish nor Palestinian: They are two leftist Catholic…

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No Judeocentric Contextual Vacuum: Active German Policies Turn Some Poles Against Jews. 1930s Poland and Jews: the Other Side. Jewish Separatism. Gotz Aly

Europe Against the Jews: 1880-1945, by Gotz Aly. 2020. Metropolitan Books, New York

Recognized German Fault for Polish Acts Against Jews This book centers on European anti-Semitism in the decades preceding the Third Reich. This tends towards diluting German guilt for the Holocaust by relativizing and conflating the German-Austrian murder…

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Talmudic Sequels Also Contain Racism. Exculpations Fail. Khmelnytsky Uprising Provoked by Jews. Katz

Exclusiveness and Tolerance: Studies in Jewish-Gentile Relations in Medieval and Modern Times, by Jacob Katz. 1983

Talmudic Antigoyism Didn't Die Out in the Talmudic or Medieval Period: It Persisted to Recent Times! Jews and Christians each had stereotypical views of each other (p. xiv), and Jewish views of Christianity were…

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Jewish-Polish Relations: Two Sides. Jewish Poverty Not Polish Fault: From Jewish Occupational Structure. Sunday Closing Laws. Dmowski correct on Hungarian Jews. Parkes

The emergence of the Jewish problem, 1878-1939, by James William Parkes. 1946

Two Sides: Includes an Unusually Clarified and Even-Handed Analysis of Pre-WWII Polish-Jewish Relations Though not published until 1946, this book was written just before the Holocaust, and thus presents a Holocaust-eve analysis of Europe's Jews. I focus on…

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Jewish-Polish Relations: Two Sides. Racism in Kabbalah. Large and Inclusive Polish Nobility. Lehmann

Symbiosis And Ambivalence: Poles And Jews In A Small Galician Town, by Rosa Lehmann. 2001

Poles and Jews: No Black and White. Poles Rejoicing at the Holocaust a Myth This book covers the vicissitudes of pre-WWII Polish-Jewish relations in the town of Jaslicka, SW Poland (post-WWII boundaries), from a few…

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Talmud Anti-Christian. Details. Schaefer (Schafer, Schaeffer)

Jesus in the Talmud, by Peter Schäfer. 2007

Very Scholarly: Includes an Ironic Counterpart to Christian Charges of Jewish Deicide Agree with this author or not, he is no intellectual lightweight. He teaches Judaic studies at Princeton University, and Rabbi Burton L. Vizotzky (on the outside book cover), calls Schaefer…

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Jewish Self-Criticism. Jewish Collaboration Reflection. Jewish Fault Admitted. German Not “Nazi” Guilt. Goodbye Jews! a Lie. Perechodnik

Am I a Murderer?, By Calel Perechodnik. 1996

No German Guilt Diffusion. Jewish Self-Criticism and Candor. Polish Anti-Semitism Exaggerated. Zydokomuna. Poles Weren't Glad That Hitler Killed Jews The author was a Jewish ghetto policeman at the Otwock Ghetto. His testimony is unusually fair and lucid. THE GERMANS DID THE…

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Jewish Chosenness Itself Reckoned Christians Idolaters. Power Disparity No Excuse. Harris

The Pride of Jacob: Essays on Jacob Katz and His Work, by Jay M. Harris (Editor). 2002

Critically Examines Katz' Position on Medieval Jews Regarding Christians as Non-Idolaters This anthology of articles gives many details on the biography of Yaacov Katz (1904-1998), as well as issues raised in his work.…

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Polish AntiSemitism: Limited and Rational: Zionist Max Nordau. Jewish Overcrowding. Weinbaum

A Marriage of Convenience, by Laurence Weinbaum. 1993

Anti-Semitism Can Be Rational. The Endek and Zionist Agreement on the Fact of Jewish Overpopulation of Pre-WWII Poland, and Joint Efforts to Solve It. Polish Ambassador Lipski Never Endorsed the Holocaust! The author touches on Jewish life in Poland. Although he…

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Talmudic Racism Continues. The Kabbalah: Talmudic Sequels Also Contain Racism. Mahler

Hasidism and the Jewish Enlightenment, by Raphael Mahler. 1984. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln

Jewish Racism in Parts of the Midrash and the Kabbalah. Jewish Prosperity in Poland This work focuses on how the Hasidic movement developed, and how it interacted with other Jews, and gentiles. It also provides insight…

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Talmudic Racism: Dual Morality Admitted. Jews Can Cheat the Goyim. Jews Forced Into Commerce a Myth. Jewish Privileges. Katz

Tradition and Crisis: Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages, by Jacob Katz, Bernard D. Cooperman. 1994

Jews and the GOYIM: Candor About the Ongoing Implications of Talmudic Dual Morality [Dual Justice]. Jews and Commerce: Why Endek-Led Boycotts Were Necessary This work is mostly about the internal affairs…

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Jewish Atrocities: Deir Yassin. Collateral Civilian Deaths Debunked: Arab Civilians Were Murdered. Ellis

Remembering Deir Yassin: The Future of Israel and Palestine, by Daniel McGowan and Marc H. Ellis (eds.) 1998

Deir Yassin: The Undeniable Slaughter of Arab Civilians by Jewish Soldiers We hear a lot, in the media, about Poles and Jedwabne. We never hear about Jewish massacres of non-Jews. So…

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Talmud Anti-Christian. Uncensored Talmudic Attacks on Jesus Christ. Birkat Haminim Jewish Curses. Teppler

Birkat Haminim, by Yaakov Teppler, Susan Weingarten (Editor). 2007

The Talmud Uncensored: Condemning and Cursing Jesus Christ--Which Started Long Before Christians Started to Persecute Jews The core of BIRKAT HAMINIM derives from the Babylonian Talmud (Berakhot 28b-29a). (p. 2). It was written in the Yavneh period, after the Second Temple,…

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Zydokomuna Exculpation Fails: AntiSemitism Phony Indignation: Communist Crimes Against Jews Get a Pass. Numerus Clausus Validated! Jews Back Reds in 1920 Polish-Soviet War. Bemporad

Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk, by Elissa Bemporad. 2013

Jewish Communists Unequivocally Remain Jews. Jews Suffer From Soviet Communism (Yet Only Blame Polish Anti-Semitism). 1920 War Jews Back Reds. Jewish Leadership of Belarussian NKVD Elissa Bemporad, a Professor of East European Jewish History at Queen's College of…

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Liquor PROPINACJA Exploits Peasants. Jewish Smuggling. Jewish Profiteering. January 1863 Insurrection. Polish Guerrilla Warfare. Anderson

Russian Poland in 1863: Seven Months' Residence, by Fontescue L. M. Anderson. 1864. MacMillan and Company, London and Cambridge

Jewish Smuggling. Poland Under the Boot of Tsarist Russia: A Firsthand Account The author was an Englishman who visited Wilno-area partitioned Poland in the company of Count Alexander von Bisping-Galen (e.…

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Polish Antisemitism: Limited and Rational. Jewish Usury. Warning: a Politically Incorrect Book. Jeske-Choinski

Poznaj Zyda! By Teodor Jeske-Choinski. 1912. Zienkowicz and Checinski, Lwow. Polish Book Importing Company, New York

Talmudic Issues, Usury, Pogroms, Clash with Christian Society, Judeocompliant Poles GET TO KNOW THE JEW! is the title of this Polish-language politically incorrect book. It is packed with information, and I focus on a…

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Jewish-Polish Relations: Two Sides. Catholic Church Not Responsible for Pogroms. Baskerville

The Polish Jew: His Social and Economic Value (Classic Reprint), by Beatrice C Baskerville. 1906

Jewish-Polish Relations: Two Sides. Jewish Economic and Now Political Dominance. Ritual-Murder Beliefs and Pogroms Condemned by the Church. Eventual Dmowski-Led Boycotts This British author's understanding of Jews is quite different from that of westerners [review…

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Jewish Chosenness Analyzed and Deconstructed. Jews and God Do a Role Reversal. Kaplan

Judaism as a Civilization: Toward a Reconstruction of American-Jewish Life, by Mordecai Menahem Kaplan. 1934

Jewish Chosenness Taken Apart: An In-Depth Analysis This work (review based on original 1934 edition) covers many topics, and I consider a few of them. I especially focus on Jewish Chosenness. For more on…

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Armenians in Poland Congenial Unlike Jews. Lilien

Thoughts of a Polish Jew: To Kasienka From Grandpa, by Artur Lilien-Brzozdowieczki. 2019

Armenians and Jews: Two Entrepreneurial Minority Groups. Unlike Jews, Armenians Were Unswervingly Loyal to Poland, and So Earned Full Acceptance Into Polish Society The setting of this book is Galicia, beginning with Austrian rule and ending with…

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Antigoyism Confronted. Why Jews Once Antissimilationist. Why Goy Education Once Avoided. Heilman

Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry, by Samuel C. Heilman. 2000

A Peek Into the Onetime Religious-Based Jewish Separatism and Antigoyism Whose Secularized Counterpart--Unfortunately--Still Dominates Polish-Jewish Relations The author, a descendant of Polish Jews, became interested in what the Jews of Poland must once have been like. However, he…

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Talmudic Racism: Dual Morality. Dual Justice Elaborated. Bloodshed. Gored Oxen. Lost and Stolen Property. Silberstein

The Other in Jewish Thought and History: Constructions of Jewish Culture and Identity, by Laurence J. Silberstein (Editor). 1994. New York University Press, New York, London

Talmudic Dual Morality Governing Jews and Gentiles: A Real Issue. Futility of Exculpations Of this anthology, I focus on the scholarly work of…

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Jewish Self-Criticism and Candor. Ewa Kurek Correct on “Jews Enjoying Themselves”. Warsaw Ghetto. Janusz Korczak

Ghetto Diary, by Janusz Korczak. 2003

Includes Candid Jewish Self-Examination. Polish Scholar EWA KUREK WAS RIGHT About "Normal" Jewish Behavior, Which Was Quite Comparable to "Normal" Polish Behavior Owing to the fact that Korczak cared for children, it is not surprising that much of his diary is devoted to…

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Jewish Supremacy Details. Talmudic Racism: Goyim as Virtual Animals. Noahide Laws Did Not Make Judaism Universal. GOY Welcome Into Temple Not Universalist. Stern

Jewish Identity in Early Rabbinic Writings, by Sacha Stern. 1997

British Jewish Scholar Analyzes Talmudic Racism and Universalism. A Talmudic Basis For Some Forms of Holocaust-Related Jewish Anti-Polonism The author is Professor of Rabbinic Judaism at University College London. He identifies himself as an Orthodox Jew. (p. xxii). In his…

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Talmudic Racism: Examples. The Creation is For Jews Only. Talmudic Racism: Goyim as Virtual Animals. Cohen

The Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Berakot, by Abraham Cohen. 1921

Racist Memes in the Talmudic Tractate Berachoth (Berakot): Stars Were Created Only for the Jews, and the GOYIM as Virtual Animals My review is based on the original 1921 edition. Talmudic scholar Abraham Cohen provides the reader with the entire Tractate…

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Talmudic Racism: Dual Morality Elaborated. Gored Oxen. Lost or Stolen Property. Jewish Righteousness Presumed, Not Demonstrated. Fraade

From Tradition to Commentary: Torah and Its Interpretation in the Midrash Sifre to Deuteronomy, by Steven D. Fraade. 1991. SUNY Press, New York

Talmudic Dual Morality Governing Jews and the GOYIM: "It Depends on Whose Ox is Gored" The teaching about the gored oxen appears not only in the…

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Holocaust Overattention. Politics of Memory: USHMM Born of Politics. Minorities Can Be Wrong. Identity Politics. Flanzbaum

The Americanization of the Holocaust, by Hilene Flanzbaum (Ed.) 1999

Minorities Can Be Wrong: Should Minority Groups Be Exempt From Criticism? Jews, Holocaust Overattention, and The Politics Behind the Construction of the USHMM (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) This anthology of articles emphasizes the Holocaust in literature and the arts.…

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Kahals in Poland. Judaic AntiChristianity. Jewish Bribery. Jewish AntiAssimilation. Brafmann and Jeske-Choinski

Zydzi i Kahaly, by Jacob Brafmann and Teodor Jeske-Choinski. 1914. Dukarnia Synow St. Niemiry, Warszawa

A Russian Jew and a Pole Expose the Massive Corruption of the Kahals (Jewish Self-Government). Focus on Jewish Bribery THE JEWS AND THE KAHALS, WITH COMMENTARY is the title of this Polish language book. It…

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Jewish Gestapo Agents Hide Nazi Extermination. Jewish-Nazi Collaboration. Jewish Self-Criticism and Candor. Both Jews and Poles Looted. Kermish

To Live with Honor, to Die with Honor: Documents from the Warsaw Ghetto Underground Archives, by Joseph Kermish (Editor). 1999

Includes Rare Jewish Self-Criticism. Jewish Unscrupulousness Confronted. Jews as Well as Poles Looted. Jewish-Nazi Collaboration Confronted, Not Exculpated Those readers who are steeped in modern political correctness are advised…

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Jewish Complicity in Naliboki Massacre. Bielski Brothers. Frank Blaichman. Fake Pogroms. Zebrowski

Mity Przeciwko Polsce: Zydzi, Polacy, Komunizm 1939-2012, by Leszek Zebrowski. 2012

NSZ Combat, Jewish Massacres of Poles at Koniuchy and Naliboki. Communist Subjugation of Poland MYTHS DIRECTED AGAINST POLAND: JEWS, POLES, AND COMMUNISM 1939-2012 is the title of this Polish-language book. It presents a wealth of information, only some of…

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Zydokomuna Exculpation Fails: AntiSemitism Phony Indignation. Communist Crimes Against Jews Get a Pass. Pinchuk

Shtetl Jews Under Soviet Rule: Eastern Poland On The Eve Of The Holocaust, by Ben-Cion Pinchuk. 1990

Rather Egregious Double Standards on Anti-Semitism, Dependent Upon Whether it is Polish or Soviet This is one of the few books, written by a Jewish author, which acknowledges the fact that large numbers…

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Jewish Universalism Largely a Recent Development. Sears

Compassion for Humanity in the Jewish Tradition, by Dovid Sears. 1998

Jewish Universalism Mostly a Recent (Post-Enlightenment) Development. Cheating the GOYIM: Immoral or Unwise? This work is an impressive collection of positive Jewish statements about gentiles. For instance, righteous non-Jews deserve a place in the World to Come (SANHREDRIN 105a).…

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Polish AntiSemitism: Limited and Rational. Jewish Economic Hegemony. Russell

Poland Revisited, by Sir Edward J. Russell. 1937

A British-Eye Analysis of Pre-WWII Poland. Anti-Semitism is Irrational in Britain, But is Rational in Poland In this short booklet of 39 pages, Russell, a Briton, touches on several aspects of interwar Poland. The title refers to the author's visits to Poland…

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Polish Antisemitism: Limited and Rational. Details. Propinacja. Moltke

Poland: An Historical Sketch, by Helmuth von Moltke, Emma Sophia Buchheim. 1832, 2013

Prussian Helmuth Moltke: In Poland, Jews Exploit Peasants The elder Helmuth Moltke wrote this book in 1832 (p. v), at a time when Poland's partitions, at the hands of her neighbors, had been a relatively recent development,…

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Polish AntiSemitism: Limited and Rational. Jewish Poverty Not Polish Fault: Jewish Overcrowding. Heil Hitler! Salute. Super

The Polish Tradition: an Interpretation of a Nation, by Paul Super. 1939

A Super Job (Pardon the Pun). Polish Anti-Semitism Real Causes. Why Boycotts Were Necessary. Poland Overcrowded With Jews. Significance of Poland's Kresy (Borderlands) Author Paul Super, an American of Dutch-German descent (p. 107), who had lived a long…

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Coming to Terms with the Past: Zydokomuna Rare Collective Jewish Liability Accepted. Talmudic Racism Confronted. Cohen

Insiders and Outsiders: Dilemmas of Eastern European Jewry, by Richard I. Cohen et al. (eds.), 2010

An Exotic Rarity: Jewish Scholar Accepts Collective Jewish Accountability for the Crimes of the ZYDOKOMUNA (Judeo-Bolshevism) In typical discourse, everything negative in past Polish-Jewish relations is reflexively blamed on the Poles. This book is…

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Journalism and Jews. Candor on: Are Jews Better Than Everyone Else? Yiddish Theater: Morality Abandoned. Hamerow

Remembering a Vanished World: A Jewish Childhood in Interwar Poland, by Theodore S. Hamerow. 2001

Journalism and Jews. Crushing Peasant Poverty Explains Polish "Greed" For Post-Jewish Properties. Why Jewish Influence on Polish Culture Was Seen as Harmful The focus is on journalism and Jews. Although Hamerow left Poland when…

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Futility of Jewish-Christian and Polish-Jewish Dialogue. What JPII Actually Said About Jews as “Elder Brothers in the Faith”. Auschwitz Monopolized by Jews. Carmelite Convent Details. Chrostowski

Kosciol, Zydzi, Polska, Wydanie XII, by Waldemar Chrostowski. 2015. FRONDA PL Warszawa

Details on THE AUSCHWITZ CARMELITE CONVENT CONTROVERSY THE CHURCH, THE JEWS, AND POLES is the title of this Polish-language book. It packs a wealth of information. FUTILITY OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE Jewish-Christian "dialogue" is always the same: It…

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Polish AntiSemitism: Limited and Rational. DEFINITIVE WORK. Jewish Economic Hegemony. Jewish Usury. Why Jews Expelled. Warning: A Politically Incorrect Book. Laudyn

A World Problem: Jews-Poland-Humanity: A Psychological and Historical Study, by Stefanja Laudyn. 1920.  American Catalogue Print Company

Why Antisemitism? Why Polish Antagonism to Jews? Jewish: Economic Dominance, Usury, Liquor Trade, Germanophilia, Chronic Bad Press for Poles, Bogus Pogrom Accusations, Minorities Treaty Special Rights, etc. Nowadays, books on Polish-Jewish relations…

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Judaism Non-Persecutory: No Credit to Jews. Talmudic Racism: Dual Morality, Dual Justice. Ox-Goring Example. Laursen

Beyond the Persecuting Society: Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment, by John Christian Laursen (Editor), Cary J. Nederman (Editor). 1997

Judaism Non-Persecutory By No Choice. Medieval Rabbi Moses Maimonides, a Progressive for His Time: Punish Christians as Idolaters! Talmudic Dual Morality This work consists of a series of essays…

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Talmudic Racism: Dual Morality. Origins of Chutzpah. Saving a Life: Yad Vashem Implications. Oz

Jews and Word, by Amos Oz, Fania Oz-Salzberger. 2012

Insights Into Chutzpah, What "Whoever Saves One Soul" Really Means, and Talmudic Dual Morality (Dual Justice) The authors are identified as a father and daughter--one a historian and the other a writer and literary scholar. (p. ix). This volume is a…

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Jewish-Polish Relations: Two Sides. Repulsive Jewish Economic Habits. Pennell

The Jew at Home, Impressions of a Summer and Autumn Spent with Him .., by Joseph Pennell. 1892

A Middle View (Judeorealist View) of the Polish Jew and His Conduct Author Joseph Pennell was an Englishman who visited Partition-era Poland and adjacent areas of Eastern Europe. My review is based…

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Polish AntiSemitism: Limited and Rational. Poland’s Armenians: An Early History. Simeon

The Travel Accounts of Simeon of Poland, by Simeon, George A. Bournoutian. 2007

A 17th-Century Polish Armenian Describes Poland's Armenian Community, and Critiques Jewish Conduct Simeon was an Armenian who was born and raised in Poland. (p. 16). His travels took him to Constantinople, the Ottoman coastline, Venice, Rome,…

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Jewish Self-Criticism and Candor. Jewish Pogroms Against Other Jews. Schechtman

Fighter and Prophet: The Last Years, by Joseph B. Schechtman, Adolph Gourevitch (Afterword). 1961

Violence: Jews Against Jews. Politics of Assassinations. Candid Jewish Self-Criticism This book contains seldom-mentioned information. For example: POGROMS: JEWS AGAINST JEWS The author has an interesting commentary on Jew-on-Jew violence. When Jabotinsky spoke, he…

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Talmudic Racism and Universalism. Ewa Kurek Correct on Jewish Decisions on Who Will Live. Cohen

Everyman's Talmud, by Abraham Cohen. 1949

Addresses Talmudic Racism and Universalism. Jewish Chosenness. Antigoyism: Torah Umbrella Exculpation There is a wealth of information in this detailed work by Talmudic scholar Abraham Cohen, and I focus on a few items of lasting interest. My review is based on the original 1949…

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Jewish Separatism and Non-Conformism: A Recent American Model of Poland’s Jews. Goyim are Supposed to Conform to Jews! Bloom

Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America, by Stephen G. Bloom. 2001. Mariner Books, Boston

Refreshing Candor! An American Setting for "Polish" Anti-Semitism. How Jews Transform Societies There are many reviews of this book available and, instead of repeating them, I review this book in terms of deeper implications.…

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Jewish Chosenness Confronted. Acknowledged Parallels Between Jewish Chosenness and Nazi Racism. Why Jews Antiassimilationist: Poland Deemed Unworthy of Jewish Assimilation. Noahide Laws Did Not Make Judaism Universal. Kaplan

The Future of the American Jew, by Mordecai Menahem Kaplan. 1948

Jewish Chosenness Confronted. Jews Once Found Germany Worthy and Poland Unworthy of Jewish Assimilation

Rabbi Mordecai Menahem Kaplan, the author, presents a wealth of ideas. This work is effectively a sequel to Kaplan's 1934 book deconstructing Jewish…

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Minorities Can Be Wrong: Pushy Minority Tries to Force Its Ways on the Majority. Draft Dodging. August Hlond Correct. Efron

Real Jews: Secular Versus Ultra- Orthodox: The Struggle For Jewish Identity In Israel, by Noah J. Efron. 2003

Inadvertent Model for Polish-Jewish Relations: Pushy Minority vs Majority Rather Than Aggrieved Minority Vs Intolerant Majority Although this is not a book on Jewish-Polish relations, I write this review from that…

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AntiSemitism From Jealousy of Jews: A Canned Dodge Used Even Against Other Jews. Jews and the Messiah. Berger

The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference, by David Berger. 2001

Jealousy of Jews: The "Hatred-Jealousy" Accusation Used to Silence Critics. Jewish anti-Christian Memes Still Operate to the Present Day I analyze some of the lines of argumentation in this book, and do not take sides on…

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Jewish Chosenness Racialized. Anticipated Nazi Racialism. Kohler

Jewish Theology, by Kaufmann Kohler, Georgia Keilman (Editor). 1923

Racialized Jewish Chosenness Preceded Nazi Racialism My review is based on the original 1923 edition. The author thinks of Judaism as a community invested in the pursuit of ethics and ethical living, and seems to present a rather visionary, if not…

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Jewish-Polish Relations: Two Sides. Polish Nobility Clarified. Harring

Poland Under the Dominion of Russia, by Harro Harring. 1831

An Early Mid-19th Century Snapshot of Russian-Ruled Poland. Polish Nobility Not Feudal. Two Sides on Jews My review is based on the original 1831 English-language edition, a translation from the original German. I focus on a few themes. The author…

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Talmud Anti-Christian. GOY Welcome Into Temple Not Universalist. Frydland

When Being Jewish Was A Crime, by Rachmiel Frydland. 1978

Candor on THE TALMUD AGAINST JESUS CHRIST, the Admission of GOYIM to the Temple for Prayer, and the ALEINU The author lived in Lesniczowka, near Chelm. (p. 97). He was an Orthodox Jew. One of the yevishas he attended,…

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Talmudic Maledictions Against Christians. Birkat Haminim Jewish Curses. Noahide Laws Did Not Make Judaism Universal. Langer

Cursing the Christians?: A History of the Birkat Haminim, by Ruth Langer. 2011

The Long History of Jewish Malediction Against Christianity--Even Before Christians Were in a Position to Persecute Jews This is a fascinating, technical book. The author traces the history of the BIRKAT HAMINIM from antiquity, through the Middle…

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Jewish Chosenness: Self-Congratulatory Narrative and Deflection. Beker

The Chosen: The History of an Idea, the Anatomy of an Obsession, by Avi Beker. 2008

Jewish Chosenness: An Exculpatory Deflection. Corrections Provided This book is a disappointment. The analysis of Jewish Chosenness is quite shallow and rather exculpatory in tone. The most important practical aspect of the concept of…

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Jewish Chosenness Repudiated. Reconstructionist Foundation

Sabbath Prayer Book: With a supplement containing prayers, readings and hymns and with a new translation, by Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation. 1945

Jewish Reconstructionist Prayer Book Repudiates "Jews are Chosen People" This book (review based on the 1945 edition) contains prayers for many different occasions. Many of the prayers are Psalms.…

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Jewish Chosenness Repudiated. Jews Too Punished Heresy. Putdown of Poles. Jews Transform Societies. Scult

The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan, by Mel Scult. 2013

JEWS TRANSFORM SOCIETIES. Jewish Chosenness (Including Its "Benevolent" Form) Repudiated. Polonophobia. Judaism Nondogmatic a Myth In order to form my own opinion of Mordecai Menahem Kaplan without being influenced by that of anyone else, I first read…

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Jewish Chosenness Exculpatory Deflection. Non-Carryover of Judaic Customs into Christianity is No Problem. Morris

Judaism as Creed and Life, by Morris Joseph. 1929

The Hellenization of Jews; Jewish Chosenness; Hellenization (Implications for Endek Policies) My review is based on the sixth edition, published 1929. This work begins with basic issues surrounding the nature of God, faith, humanity, Israel's mission, etc. It then provides especial…

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Talmudic Racism Confronted. Jews Did Censorship To Other Jews Too. Talmudic Apologetic Fails. Assaf

Untold Tales of the Hasidim: Crisis and Discontent in the History of Hasidism, by David Assaf. 2010

Not Only Christian Authorities Censored Jews: Jewish Authorities Also Censored Jews. Talmudic Racism Confronted This work focuses on the often-disagreeable and sometimes violent antagonisms between different factions of Jews. This includes conflicts…

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Muslims in Old Poland Loyal Unlike Jews. No Balkanization of Poland. Bohdanowicz

Muslims in Poland, Their Origin, History, and Cultural Life, by Leon Bohdanowicz. 1942

Early Polish Muslims, Unlike the Jews, Were a Minority Group Very Faithful to Poland This was originally an article in the October 1942 issue of the JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. It features Poland's indigenous Muslims,…

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Minorities Can Be Wrong. Minority Rights and Majority Rights. Shilhav

Ultra-Orthodoxy in Urban Governance in Israel, by Yossef Shilhav. 1998

Minorities are Not Always Right. The Haredim, in the USA and Israel, and Public Policies. Implications for 1918 Minorities Treaty: Jews in Conflict With Poland This work does not provide many details about the positions of the haredim on…

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Jewish-Polish Relations: Two Sides. Narutowicz Assassination Arose From a Provocation. Stachura

Poland Between The Wars, 1918-1939, by Peter D. Stachura (Editor). 1998

Organized Jewish Hostility to Poland, Then and Now This book addresses many topics. I focus on a few of them. LEFTISTS AND JUDEOCENTRISTS DON'T LIKE HIM, SO THEY--SURPRISE--CALL THE AUTHOR A NATIONALIST This book has been mischaracterized as a…

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Jewish Self-Criticism and Candor. Catholic Church Financiers Opposed Hitler. Gessner

Some Of My Best Friends Are Jews, by Robert Gessner. 1936

Some Jewish Self-Criticism: Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany in the Eyes of French Jews The author, Robert Gessner, identifies himself as an American Jew. (p. 3). His travels took him to Europe (including Nazi Germany soon after Hitler came…

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Jews Copy Nazis. Talmudic Racism: Even Talmudic Parallels to the Nazi Cartoon DER GIFTPILZ. Wasserman

Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals, by Mira Beth Wasserman. 2017

A Fascinating Work That Confronts the Racist Aspects of the Talmud. Dual Morality Tacitly Accounts for the Auschwitz Carmelite Convent Controversy Author and Rabbi Mira Beth Wasserman is Assistant Professor of Rabbinical Literature at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. This work is…

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Atrocities: Jewish Complicity Admitted for Koniuchy Massacre. Kowalski

A Secret Press in Nazi Europe, by Isaac Kowalski. 1978

Heavy Jewish Complicity in the Murders of Polish Civilians at Koniuchy Acknowledged: Proffered Exculpations Fall Apart This work is centered on the presence of Jewish bands in the area of Vilna (Wilno, Vilnius), and discussion of the press is decidedly…

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Jewish Self-Criticism and Candor. Poles Thwart Prussianism. Rubinstein

My Young Years, by Arthur Rubinstein. 1973

A Polish Patriotic Jew Who Stood Up for Poland. Includes Honest Jewish Self-Criticism Rubinstein, an assimilated Polish Jew, is beloved by Poles for his spontaneous display of patriotism. He played the Polish National Anthem, at the very first meeting of the United…

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Jews a Minority (Judaism Non-Persecutory): No Credit to Jews. Power Disparity No Excuse. Jewish Expediency Confronted. Brown

Confronting Scandal: How Jews Can Respond When Jews Do Bad Things, by Erica Brown. 2010

The Long History of Jewish Nonviolence Is Not Necessarily of Moral Credit to the Jews This book examines such things as Jewish gangsters in early 20th century USA, financial scandals involving Jews (e. g, Bernie…

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Talmud Anti-Christian: Why the Much-Maligned Martin Luther’s Statements on Jews. Deutsch

Toledot Yeshu ("The Life Story of Jesus") Revisited: A Princeton Conference, by Yaacov Deutsch (Editor), Michael Meerson (Editor). 2011

Luther's Revenge. Venomous Jewish "Counter-Gospel": It Led to Martin Luther's Retaliatory Venom Against Jews. (Why is Only Luther Blamed Today??) This work contains numerous scholarly articles on TOLEDOT YESHU, and includes…

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Talmudic Sequels Also Contain Racism. Example: ALENU. Blank

Experience of Jewish Liturgy: Studies Dedicated to Menahem Schmelzer, by Debra Reed Blank (Editor). 2011

The ALEINU (a Jewish Prayer) and Its Confessedly anti-Christian and Racist Implications This work is an anthology of many topics. For instance, Neil Gillman repeats the argument that the belief in the immortality of the…

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Armenians Joined Poland. Tatar-Muslims Joined Poland. Jews Did Not. Schmitt

Poland, by Bernadotte E. Schmitt. (ed.) 1947. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles

Minorities in Poland: Armenians and Muslims Unite With Poland, But Jews Do Not. Kosciuszko Effectively Abolished Polish Serfdom This anthology discusses many topics. I focus on a few of them. A TALE OF THREE…

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Talmudic Apologetic Presented: Is Dubious. Entdecktes Judenthum Essentially Valid. Katz

From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933, by Jacob Katz. 1982

Includes an Inadequate Talmud Apologetic This book is primarily about anti-Semitism, but the author's treatment of the Talmud overshadows everything else. For this reason, as well as the fact that other reviews already inform the reader about the general contents…

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Talmudic Racism: Talmudic Apologetic Presented: It Fails. Cheating Goys. Not Returning Goyish Property. Cohon

Why Do the Heathen Rage?, by Samuel Solomon Cohon. 1939

A Talmud Apologetic With Considerable Speculation and Special Pleading. Deals With Jews and GOYISCH Life and Property Consistent with my Judeorealist position (which strives to avoid the extremes of philosemitism and antisemitism), I examine both sides of controversial issues, such…

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Talmudic Racism: Something to Wrestle With. Why Only Jews are Adam. Medieval Jewish Star-Wearing. Carlebach

New Perspectives on Jewish-Christian Relations, by Elisheva Carlebach (Editor), Jacob J. Schacter (Editor). 2011

Includes Insights on Menahem Ha-Meiri and His Medieval Disavowal of Talmudic Antigoyism Towards Christians This work is more technical than the usual works on this subject. Because it presents so much information, I focus on a…

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Antigoyism Confronted. Racism in the Kabbalah. Redemptive Suffering in Judaism? Zydokomuna Exculpation Fails: Not Only Atheist Jews. Biale

Hasidism: A New History, by David Biale, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gadi Sagiv, Marcin Wodzinski, Arthur Green (Afterword). 2017

The "Christian" Concept of Redemptive Suffering, as Applied to the Holocaust, Has Definite Parallels in Hasidic Judaism This magisterial work is a single-volume encyclopedia on…

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Koniuchy Massacre: Jewish Complicity Proved by Three Nations’ Archives! Germans Killed 4 Million Poles, not 1.5–3.0 Million. Chodakiewicz

Intermarium: The Land Between the Black and Baltic Seas, by Marek Jan Chodakiewicz. 2016. Routledge, Oxfordshire

Media-Silent Fact: The Koniuchy Massacre, Where Jews Murdered Poles. An Inescapable Historical Fact Supported By Multiple Nations' Archives The title of this work refers to the lands between the Baltic and Black Seas--the…

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Atrocities Jewish: Kfar Kassem Massacre. Nakba (Naqba). Lucas

The Modern History of Israel, by Noah Lucas. 1975

Features the Deir Yassin and Kfar Kassem Massacres I let the author speak for himself: -----The following, except for the ALL-CAPS titles, are direct quotes-------------- THE MASS MURDER OF ARAB CIVILIANS AT KUFR QASSEM The events leading to this extraordinary…

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Talmudic Racism: GOYIM as Virtual Animals. Alenu (Aleinu) Roots. Rubenstein

The Culture of the Babylonian Talmud, by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein. 2003

The Contempt of Ancient Babylonian Rabbis for Non-Rabbinic Jews Parallels That Against the GOYIM. Both Were Virtual Animals A major theme of this work is that the traditions of the Palestinian Talmud had a much more favorable view of…

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Jewish Self-Criticism and Candor. Jews and Swindling. Jewish Views: Holocaust God Punished the Jews. Kahane

Lvov Ghetto Diary, by David Kahane. 1990

Some Jewish Self-Criticism and Self-Examination. God's Punishment of the Jews Entertained. Jewish-Nazi Collaboration Addressed This work discusses the German entry into the Lwow (Lviv) area in 1941, the first wave of killings, the Janowska concentration camp, the local massacres, and the dispatching…

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