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



Polish Nationalism Clarified. Dmowski, Endeks, and the Oboz Narodowo-Radykalny (ONR)

Understanding Dmowski on Duma Elections. Effective Polish Pushback Against Prussian Rule. Jones

The New Poland, by Paul V. B. Jones. 1919

DUMA Elections Importance. Especially Good on the Effective Polish Pushback Against Prussian Rule Over Northwest Poland This 16-page pamphlet discusses several issues related to Poland's regaining of independence in 1918. THE PARTITIONS WERE NOT INEVITABLE Author Paul Jones realizes…

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ONR Never Fascist or Pro-Nazi. ONR Not Unilaterally Antiminority. Jewish Middleman. Jews Are Perpetual Aliens. Mosdorf

Wczoraj i Jutro: Biblia Narodowego Radykalizmu, by Jan Mosdorf. 1938, 2012. Capital Book, Warszawa

Jan Mosdorf: Dealing With the Jewish Problem in Pre-WWII Poland: Expulsion of Jews Recommended YESTERDAY AND TODAY: THE BIBLE OF NATIONAL RADICALISM is the title of this work written by an ONR leader. Author Jan Mosdorf…

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Understanding Dmowski. Updating Him. Poles: Stop Serving Others! Ziemkiewicz

Mysli Nowoczesnego Endeka, by Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz. 2012

How Poles Too Often Retain a Creole Mentality--That of a Colonized People Whose Job is To Serve Foreign Interests. Why Dmowski Opposed Jews This book, now a little dated, was written before the election of the PiS (PRAWA I SPRAWIEDLIWOSC) government…

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Dmowski Was in No Sense Fascist or Pro-Nazi–I of II. Author: Roman Dmowski

Wybór pism. Tom 1 (Wybór Pism #1), by Roman Dmowski. 2014. Zysk i S-ka, Poznan

Roman Dmowski Was in No Sense Pro-Fascist or Pro-Nazi A SELECTION OF THE WRITINGS OF ROMAN DMOWSKI is the title of this compilation of 29 Polish-language articles originally published between 1893 and 1934. THOUGHTS OF…

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ONR (Polish National Radical Camp) Classic: Holocaust as Revenge Forecast. Polish Antisemitism: Limited and Rational: Elaborated By Author Gluzinski (Rolicki)

Zmierzch Izraela, by Henryk Rolicki. 1933

Understanding Polish Nationalism: An ONR Perspective on Jewish History--From Antiquity Until the Pre-WWII Period. Jews' Holocaust Anticipated THE MEASURE OF ISRAEL is the title of this Polish-language work (review based on 1933 edition). The author, aka Tadeusz Gluzinski, was a leading thinker in the…

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Boycotts of Jews Necessary Owing to Jewish Enmity to Poland. Jewish Poverty Not Polish Fault. Jewish Middleman Replaced by Jewish Handcrafts.. Author: Roman Dmowski

Swiat Powojenny i Polska, by Roman Dmowski. 1931

Roman Dmowski on Jews: Boycotts of Jews Were Necessary. Jewish Poverty Not Poles' Fault THE POSTWAR WORLD AND POLAND is the title of this Polish-language book. [Review based on original 1931 2nd Edition]. This work covers the role of Russians, Germans, Jews,…

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Dmowski Was in No Sense Fascist or Pro-Nazi–II of II. Author: Roman Dmowski

Duch Europy, by Roman Dmowski. 1938

Dmowski Comments on Nazi-Style Racism--In No Sense Embracing It THE SOUL OF EUROPE is the title of this 45-page book. It was originally published, to a small audience, by Dmowski in 1938. This was less than one year before his death. It is one…

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ONR Never Fascist or Pro-Nazi. ONR Not Unilaterally AntiMinority. Kawecki

Dzialalnosc i Mysl Spoleczno-Polityczna Obozu Narodowego-Radykalnego ABC 1934-1939, by Krzysztof Kawecki. 2013. Biblioteka Konserwatyzma, Krakow

A Short Introduction to the Polish "Far-Right" ONR (Oboz Narodowo Radykalny). In No Sense Fascist or Pro-Nazi, as Alleged by LEWAKS (Leftists) and Certain Jews. ONR Not a Monolith. Complex Relationships With Poland's Minorities THE…

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ONR Openly Repudiates Nazi Policies on Jews! Assimilated Jews Can Remain Hostile to Poland. Hartglas

Na Pograniczu Dwoch Swiatow, by Apolinary Hartglas. 1996

Far From Being Nazi-Imitating, the ONR Defiantly Told Off the Nazis on Jews! Assimilated Jews Can Retain a Hostility to Poland IN THE NO-MAN'S-LAND BETWEEN TWO WORLDS is a nonliteral, but perhaps the most informative, translation of this Polish-language work. It refers…

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Understanding Dmowski on the New Poland. Aggressive Jewish Separatism Repudiated. Colonialism Accusations. Author: Roman Dmowski

Problems of Eastern and Central Europe, by Roman Dmowski. 1917

Polish Statesman Dmowski Clarifies Polish Successes Against the Overbearing Prussians, the Kresy, Poland's Boundaries, Jewish Separatism and Overcrowding, etc. This small book packs quite a punch. For example: "COLONIZATION": THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN For a long time, Ukrainian…

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BIG BULLETIN: UNDERSTANDING THE ROMAN DMOWSKI VALOR

 

  • Polish patriotism ran in Dmowski's family. Roman Dmowski's father, Walenty, faked illiteracy to avoid having to sign his name in Russian (Wolikowska 1961, p. 61).
  • Understanding Roman Dmowski: He was never pro-Russian (Minnen 2005). The Germans were the main enemy, according to Dmowski (Duff 1917, p. 119), because…

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Undemonizing Dmowski Sorely Needed. Better Title: When Brian Porter Began to Hate. Porter-Szucs

When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth Century Poland, by Brian Porter. 2000

Left-Wing Hatchet Job on Polish Patriotism. Better Title: When Brian Porter-Szucs Began to Hate. In Fact, Positions Used By Porter to Demonize Dmowski Were Commonly Held By Jews Themselves! WARNING: Cultural Marxism UWAGA:…

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Attacking Dmowski: Self-Refuting Statements. Jew-on-Jew Violence: Are These Pogroms Too? Ury

Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905, by Scott Ury. 2012

Jew-on-Jew Violence. Jewish Social Problems. Roman Dmowski Undemonized. Endek Activism and Boycotts of Jews This book provides information on many different subjects relevant to Jewish-Polish relations. For example> CASUISTRY IN ACTION Scott Ury provides unusual, and sometimes arcane,…

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Blaming Dmowski AND Blaming Jews. Roman Dmowski Not Pro-Russian. Minnen

Van Loon: Popular Historian, Journalist, and FDR Confidant, by Cornelis van Minnen. 2005

Early 20th Century Dutch Journalist: Both Jews and Poles Were at Fault. Roman Dmowski Pro-Russian a Myth This work begins with a biography of Hendrik Willem van Loon, and moves on to his early life in Holland,…

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Dmowski Opposed Pogroms. Boycotts of Jews Yet Never Violence. Author: Roman Dmowski et al.

Russian Realities and Problems, by James Duff Duff (editor), Roman Dmowski, Pavel Milyukov, Peter Berngardovich Struve, Harold Williams, Aleksandr Lappo-Danilevskī. 1917

Poles Out-Achieve the Prussians, and Thwart Them. Boycotts Necessary, But Roman Dmowski Consistently Opposed Violence Against Jews This anthology not only discusses the situation in Russia just before the…

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Undemonizing Polish Nationalism. Jews Must Accept Their Share of Blame. Silesian Plebiscites Farce. Rose

Polish Memoirs, by William John Rose, Daniel Stone (Editor). 1976

Polish Nationalism Undemonized and Clarified. The Jewish Share of Blame. Teschen 1938 Justified. Age-Old German Polonophobia William John Rose was a Canadian from Winnipeg who visited Poland around the time just before WWI. He learned much about Poland. Soon thereafter,…

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Jewish: Self-Imposed Apartheid, AntiPolonism, Germanophilia, Zydokomuna, Yiddish Recent. Author: Roman Dmowski

Separatyzm Zydow i Jego Zrodla, by Roman Dmowski. 1909

Some Jews Polish Patriots. Jewish Germanophilia and Identification With Partitioning Powers. Yiddishist Movement. Disloyalty to Poland By Assimilationist as Well as Anti-Assimilationist Jews JEWISH SEPARATISM AND ITS CAUSES is the title of this 19-page Polish-language booklet. Originally published as an article…

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Roman Dmowski Classic: He Contronts Polish Defeatism. Jews are Scapegoats? No. Poles are Too Indulgent to Jews. Author: Roman Dmowski

Myśli Nowoczesnego Polaka, by Roman Dmowski. 1903, 1933

Undemonizing Dmowski: Roman Dmowski Inveighs Against Polish Passivity and Defeatism. Dmowski's True Views of Jews: Tactical Anti-Semitism Owed to Clashing Polish-Jewish Interests THOUGHTS OF A MODERN-THINKING POLE is the title of this Polish-language book. Originally published in 1903, its 4th edition, the…

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1912 Duma Elections: Jewish Usurpationist Politics Condemned By Some Jews, and Countered by Dmowski. Corrsin

Warsaw Before the First World War: Poles and Jews in the Third City of the Russian Empire, 1880-1914, by Stephen D. Corrsin. 1989

Includes Corrective, Seldom-Mentioned Details on 1912 Elections to the Duma, and the Much-Condemned Dmowski-Led Boycott of Jews This work provides much data on the development of Russian-ruled…

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Leading Endeks: An Anthology of Authors and Works. Nuance on Jews. Peasant National Consciousness. Litvaks. Torunczyk

Narodowa Demokracja: Antologia mysli politycznej "Przegladu Wszechpolskiego" (1895-1905), by Barbara Toruńczyk. 1981

Leading Endeks. Primary Sources on Endek Thought: Jan Ludwik Poplawski, Roman Dmowski, etc. On Jews, Ukrainians, Freemasonry, etc. Finnish and Irish Nationalism as Models for Polish Nationalists to Emulate THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT FROM…

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Endek Practical Activism DEFINITIVE WORK. Not Absence of Peasant National Consciousness. Wolsza

Narodowa Demokracja Wobec Chlopow w Latach 1887-1914, by Tadeusz Wolsza. 1992

Endek Practical Activism: The Endeks Driven Not By Hatred, But By Practical Initiatives to Elevate the Polish Peasantry, Resist Poland's Oppressors, Free Poland From Jewish Economic Hegemony, and Prepare Poland For Eventual Independence THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATS IN RELATION TO…

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Clarifying Balicki’s National Egoism. The Lewak Bogeyman of Nationalism Soundly Debunked. Grott

Zygmunt Balicki: Ideolog Narodowej Demokracji, by Bogumil Grott. 1995

A Selection of The Original Writings of Pioneering Endek Thinker Zygmunt Balicki (1858-1916). Undemonizing Belicki's "National Egoism" ZYGMUNT BALICKI: NATIONAL DEMOCRAT IDEOLOGUE, is the title of this two-part book. In the first part, Bogumil Grott analyzes Balicki (pp. 5-80). In the…

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Protocols Irony. Contrary to Critics, Dmowski Did Not Believe in Jewish Conspiracy Theories. Jews Not Scapegoats. Author: Roman Dmowski

Polityka polska i odbudowanie państwa, by Roman Dmowski. 1925, 2009

Dmowski vs. Jews: The Seldom-Told Dmowski Side of the Story. Dmowski Rejected PROTOCOLS-Style Jewish World-Control Conspiracy Theories POLISH POLITICS AND THE REBUILDING OF THE NATION is the title of this 2-volume Polish-language book. (Review based on 2nd, 1937 edition, reprinted…

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ONR Never Fascist or Pro-Nazi. ONR AntiJewish Violence Rare: Data From Archives. Muszynski

Duch Mlodych, by Wojciech Jerzy Muszynski. 2011

Contrary to the Smears of Leftists and Certain Jews, the Polish Patriotic ONR Was Never Fascist or Pro-Nazi. Nor Was it "Reactionary" or Ethnonationalist THE SPIRIT OF THE YOUNG: THE POLISH NATIONAL RADICAL CAMP IN THE YEARS 1934-1944: FROM STUDENT REVOLTS TO…

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A Zionist Counterpart to Roman Dmowski. Against Absolute Pluralism. Jewish-Nazi Accord. Kaplan

The Jewish Radical Right: Revisionist Zionism and Its Ideological Legacy, by Eran Kaplan. 2005

Undemonizing Dmowski: The Zionist Jabotinsky Believed (For Jews) Very Much the Same As Dmowski Did (For Poles) The title of this work is a little misleading, if not pejorative, as the Zionist Revisionist movement, according to…

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Undemonizing Dmowski: Reasonable Positions on Jews. Wapinski

Roman Dmowski, by Roman Wapiński. 1979

Undemonizing Dmowski: Reacting Intellectually, and Not Emotionally, to His Statements on Jews This work analyzes the Endek leader, and includes many seldom-published photos of the same. [Review based on 392-page 1988 edition]. The extensive quotations from Dmowski, including from his relatively obscure works, alone…

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Jewish Scapegoat Myth. Poles are Too Trusting of Fair Play and Moral Correctness. Author: Roman Dmowski

Niemcy, Rosja i Kwestia Polska, by Roman Dmowski. 1908

Jews Not Scapegoats. Roman Dmowski's Sophisticated View of Jews. Poles Partly to Blame. Jews Do Not Take All the Blame in Dmowski's Thinking GERMANY, RUSSIA, AND THE POLISH QUESTION is the title of this Polish-language book, originally published in 1908. It…

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Undemonizing Endeks: Being AntiExploitation is Not AntiSemitic. African-Americans and Jews. Franklin

African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Convergence and Conflict, by V.P. Franklin (Editor), Nancy L. Grant (Editor), Harold Kletnick (Editor). 1999

Jewish/African-America Cooperation and Conflict, With Unmentioned Endek Parallels in Pre-WWII Poland This scholarly anthology consists of many articles, of which I discuss a few. One…

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Background: Dmowski on Duma Elections. Reciprocity of Jewish-Polish Nationalist Antagonisms. Levin

The Third Duma, Election and Profile, by Alfred Levin. 1973

Important Usually Omitted Information on the Much-Mischaracterized 1912 Duma Election and Retaliatory Dmowski-Led Boycott of Jews This work requires an in-depth knowledge of the political process in the early 20th-century Russian Empire. It focuses on political parties and personages. This…

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NSZ-ONR Not Unilaterally AntiMinority Nor Pro-Wealthy. ONR Never Fascist or pro-Nazi: Nazi Solutions to Jews Decisively Rejected. Siemaszko

Narodowe Siły Zbrojne, by Zbigniew S. Siemaszko. 1982

ONR Platform: Not Fascist or Nazi-Imitating, Not Pro-Privileged, Not Unilaterally Anti-Minority, and Not an Advocate of Imperialistic Nationalism THE NATIONAL ARMED FORCES is the title of this Polish-language book, although it gives few details about the WWII combat operations of the NSZ…

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Odra Nysa Boundary DEFINITIVE WORK. German Revanchism Debunked. Colonialism Not All the Same. Polish Landlord Myth. Giertych

Poland and Germany, by Jedrziej Giertych. 1958

Combatting German Revanchism Regarding the Odra-Nysa (Oder-Neisse) River Eastern Boundary of Germany. The Polish Landlord Myth This book is quite lucid, and I focus on a few issues: ONGOING RELEVANCE OF THE RECOVERED TERRITORIES At times, Poland has come under attack for…

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Modern Polish Nationalism Manifesto: Progrom Ruchu Narodowego. DEFINITIVE WORK. Bosak

Suwerenny Narod w XXI Wieku, by Krzysztof Bosak, Witold Tumanowicz, Michal Wawer, i Robert Winnicki. 2016

Fixing Poland: Modern Polish Nationalism. The Many Ways That the European Union Has Harmed Poland. Polexit Needed THE SOVEREIGN NATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY: THE PROGRAM OF THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT, is the title…

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Understanding Polish Nationalism: Detailed Facts and History. Endeks Clarified. Chodakiewicz

Polska Dla Polakow! Kim Byli i Sa Polscy Narodowcy? by Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, Jolanta Mysiakowa-Muszynski, i Wojciech Muszynski. 2015. Zysk i S-ka, Poznan

Nationalism Polish: A One-Volume Encyclopedic Analysis of Polish Nationalism, Old and New. The Truth at Last. Not Ethnonationalism or Integral Nationalism. Endek Thinking is Demystified. 

POLAND…

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Undemonizing Polish Nationalism: Even ONR Never Fascist or Pro-Nazi. Chodakiewicz

Spanish Carlism and Polish Nationalism, by Marek Jan Chodakiewicz and John Radzilowski (eds.) 2003. Routledge, Oxfordshire

Undemonizing Nationalism: Neither Polish Nationalism Nor Spanish Nationalism Had Been Forms of Fascism. Essential Differences From Fascism Polish Nationalism Unlike Fascism. Reader: Prepare to learn a lot of things you will never get from…

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Polish Achievements of the Second Republic (1918-1939). Undemonizing Polish Nationalism. Not Jingoism. Why Narutowicz Assassination. 1938 Teschen/Cieszyn. Super

Twenty-Five Years With the Poles, by Paul Super. 1951

Poland's Interwar Achievements. Undemonizing Polish Nationalism: Not Jingoism. Teschen/Cieszyn 1938. YMCA in Poland The author arrived in Poland in 1922. At that time, Poland was afflicted with hyperinflation, and would be for at least another two years (for details, see p.…

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Dmowski Correct on Jews. Minorities Treaty Hypocrisy and Special Rights. Jewish Influence Rationally Assessed. Massive Pogroms 1918 Fake News. Jewish Disloyalty 1918 Over Wilno (Vilna). Malevolence of Trotsky. Dillon

The Inside Story of the Peace Conference, by Emile Joseph Dillon. 1920. Harper, New York

A Non-Pole Assesses Roman Dmowski and His Well-Thought-Out Position on Jews. Poland (Then and Now) the Object of Sustained Jewish Attacks and Demands This book (review based on original 1920 edition) refers to the Peace…

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Polish Nationalism: No Martyrdom-Centeredness. No Blind Authoritarianism. Jachymek

More Than Independence: Polish Political Thought 1918-1939, by Jan Jachymek. 2003

Debunks Many Myths About the Interwar Polish Right. Endeks Were in No Sense Pro-Fascist or Pro-Nazi This anthology features many authors and political movements. Owing to its breadth, I focus on a few items. CONSERVATISM IS NOT SYNONYMOUS WITH…

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An American Historian’s Fair Treatment of Roman Dmowski. Not Ethnonationalism. Fountain

Roman Dmowski, by Alvin Fountain. 1980

Dmowski Excellent Overview. Dmowski's Essential Political Thought. Poles Push Back Against Jewish Separatism and Economic Dominance Author Alvin Fountain is no "Polish nationalist". He is an American historian. This book covers Dmowski's thinking in 1895-1907, well before Poland's regaining of independence (1918). NEITHER ETHNONATIONALISM…

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Dmowski Correct on Jewish Cosmopolitanism and Ephemeral Jewish Loyalties. Kolarz

Myths and Realities in Eastern Europe, by Walter Kolarz. 1972

Roman Dmowski Was Right: In Eastern Europe, Jews Have Generally Weak and Often Ephemeral Attachments to the Nations in Which They Live The author surveys the claims of nations and nationalities in some detail. I focus on a few items…

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Dmowski Did Not Call for the Removal of All Jews. Dmowski Accepted Some Jews. Jewish Parasitic Occupations. Silesian Plebiscites. Bonsal

Suitors and Suppliants: The Little Nations at Versailles, by Stephen Bonsal. 1946

Expulsion of Jews. Soundly Debunks the Myth of Dmowski Wanting All Jews to Leave Poland. Dmowski Actually Believed That the Jews' Liabilities Were Partly Situational, and That Some Jews Could Become a Part of Poland By way of…

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Dmowski: The Truth. In No Sense Was He a Hater. Just the Opposite. Wolikowska

Roman Dmowski: Czlowiek, Polak, Przyjaciel, by Isabella Wolikowska. 1961

Roman Dmowski Was a Very Different Man From the Portrayal By His Jewish and Left-Wing Critics ROMAN DMOWSKI: PERSONAGE, POLE, AND FRIEND is the title of this book in English-language translation. [My review is based on the original 1961 edition.] It…

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Endeks on Partial Expulsion of Jews–Just Like Zionists Expelling Arabs! Finkelstein

Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel Is Coming to an End, by Norman G. Finkelstein. 2012

Most Israeli Jews Want Israeli Arabs Expelled, Just as Pre-WWII Endeks Wanted Poland's Jews (Partly) Expelled This book is primarily about certain Jews' objections to the conduct of the State…

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Poland Not Imperialist on Kresy Acquisition. Double Genocide Valid. Jewish Victimhood Politics Rejected. Genocide of Soviet Poles 1937-1938. Arendt

The Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt. 1973

Rejecting the Cult of Jewish Suffering. The 1937-1938 Slaughter of Soviet Poles Was An Act of Genocide. The Nazi Polokaust Was Not Utilitarian. Polish Nationalism Not Imperialist Hannah Arendt was a German Jew who wrote many political works of enduring interest.…

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ONR Not Unilaterally Anti-Minority. Loyal Minorities Tolerated. Rudnicki

Oboz Narodowo-Radykalny, by Szymon Rudnicki. 1985

The ONR (Polish National Radical Camp) Was in No Sense Fascist or Nazi-Imitating. Even Extreme Polish Nationalists Were Not Unilaterally Anti-Minority Author Rudnicki wrote this book while Poland was still under Communist rule, and this colors it. However, it does provide a short introduction…

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Pilsudski the Visionary Leader. Pilsudski Repeatedly Compared to Washington. Pilskudski Confronts Antipolonism. Humphrey

Pilsudski: Builder of Poland, by Grace Humphrey. 1936

Excellent Detail About the January 1863 Insurrection, Pilsudski as a Revolutionary, etc. This book devotes considerable attention to the failed January 1863 Insurrection, in which a small force of Poles took on the tsarist armies. The severe Russian repressions in the aftermath…

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Polish Christian Nationalism: Completely Unlike Fascism. Why Rooted In Catholicism. Even ONR Never Fascist or Pro-Nazi. Grott

Nacjonalizm chrześcijański: narodowo-katolicka formacja ideowa w II Rzeczypospolitej na tle porównawczym, by Bogumił Grott. 2006

Polish Christian Nationalism Clarified and Demystified. Is Very Different From Fascism Title: CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM. In modern politically correct times, nationalism has become a dirty word, unilaterally and thoughtlessly condemned as intolerant, and confused with fascism…

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