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



Slavs Not Recent Arrivals. Facts on Polish Nobility, Polish Serfs, Partitioned Poland, and Polish Insurrections

Jews Not Nobility Exploited Peasants. Questionable Jewish Business Practices. Zydokomuna Cause: Jewish Speculative Reasoning. Adeney

The Jews of Eastern Europe, by J. H. Adeney. 1921

Jews and Partitioning Powers. Jews and PROPINACJA, and Questionable Economic Practices My review is based on the original 1921 edition. The author, John Howard Adeney, had much firsthand experience with the Jews of Romania. Nowadays, the subject of…

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Venerable HEJNAL Confirmed by an Uzbek Source

Trębacz z Samarkandy i inne opowiadania, by Ksawery Pruszyński. 1983. Młodzieżowa Agencja Wydawnicza, Warszawa

 Hejnal Confimed: An Uzbek Story Very Similar to the Poles' Hejnal When the Poles were freed from Soviet captivity in 1942, they gathered in Yangi Yul. They had exchanges with the Uzbek natives. And then... Hejnal…

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Polish Nobility Undemonized. Polish Achievements of the Second Republic (1918-1939). Statkowski

Poland: History, Culture, Civilisation, by Joseph Statkowski. 1935

Polish Nobility: Corrects the Common Awfulization of Poland's Onetime Nobility, and Refutes Negativisms About Interwar Poland (1918-on) This small book packs quite a punch. It provides basics about Polish history, Polish culture, and Polish culture. It contains historical tidbits, such as the…

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Jews Not Nobility Exploited Peasants. Liquor Trade. Jews Forced Into Commerce a Myth. Levine

Economic Origins of Antisemitism: Poland and Its Jews in the Early Modern Period, by Hillel Levine. 1991

Exploited Peasants: Pre-Partitioned Poland: Jewish Middlemen, the Liquor Trade (PROPINACJA), and the Delayed Modernization of Polish Society This work surveys Polish-Jewish relations in the centuries before the Partitions of Poland. It requires a…

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Kresy Ancient Polishness. Armstrong

Nations Before Nationalism, by John Alexander Armstrong. 2011

Kresy Ancient Polishness. Poles Were Not Recent Arrivals in the (Former) Kresy: An Ageless Polish Presence in Present-Day Ukraine My review is based on the 1982 edition. This work is less about nations and early nationalism, and more about history in…

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Polish Nobility Inclusive. Borscht Was Originally Polish. Vraniak

The Polish Trivia Book, by John M. Vraniak. 1988

Polish Nobility Inclusive and Large. Borscht Was Originally Polish, Not Russian. Assorted Polish Achievements Though the book is a bit dated (1988), every imaginable aspect of Polishness is covered: Polish language, history, culture, immigration to America, Polish-American personages, customs, etc.…

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Polish Nobility Very Inclusive. Polish Women Drive Polish Patriotism. January 1863 Insurrection. Poles Beat Prussians. Brandes

Poland: a Story of the Land, People, and Literature, by Brandes, Georg. 1903

JANUARY 1863 INSURRECTION AFTERMATH. The Unprecedented Extent of Ennobled Poles: A Virtual Polish Middle Class This 1903 book [review based on original edition] was published at a time when the Kingdom of Poland had become a…

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Polish Serfdom Demystified. Polish Serfdom Ended Details. Economics Rather Than Enlightenment Drives Social Change. Kieniewicz

The Emancipation of the Polish Peasantry, by Stefan Kieniewicz. 1970

Polish Serfdom Ended Details. An Encyclopedic Gem: The Complex Nature of Serfdom in Poland and the End of It. Reciprocal Cause-Effect in Social Reform Instead of listing the many individuals and events in this book, I focus on certain themes.…

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Polish Nobility Grants Peasant Liberties. Devine

Scotland and Poland: Historical Encounters, 1500-2010, by T.M. Devine (Editor). 2011

Scots in Poland: Poles in Scotland. Good Detail on Polish Peasant Liberties (Understanding THE POLISH NOBILITY) This work covers both the positive and negative aspects of Polish-Scottish relations. Many Scots moved to Poland centuries ago. Poles came to…

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Russia Owes Poles. The Poles Played a Major Role in Building Russia. Swider

Jak Stwarzalismy Rosje: Polskie Korzenie Rosyjskiego Imperium, by Mariusz Swider. 2020. Fronda PL, Warszawa

Russia Owes Poles: The Manifold Fields of Polish Endeavour in the Creation of Russia HOW WE CREATED RUSSIA: THE POLISH ROOTS OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIUM is the title of this Polish-language book. Even if the author…

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Jews Not Nobility Exploited Peasants. Jews Block Polish Progress. Kresy Myths Debunked. Znaniecki and Thomas

The Polish Peasant in Europe and America: Monograph of an Immigrant Group, Volume 2, by Florian Znaniecki, William I. Thomas. 1927, 1958

Inequality Caused Social Classes as Much as Social Classes Caused Inequality. The Polish Peasant Was Locked in an Often-Harmful Codependency With the Jew This second volume has a…

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Jews Not Nobility Exploited Peasants. Jews PROPINACJA Detail. Jews Push Alcoholism. Antisemitism Phony Indignation. Veidlinger

Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire, by Jeffrey Veidlinger. 2009

The Litvaks (Litwaks): The Russification of Erstwhile Polish Jews in the 19th Century. Jewish Tavern Owners Promote Alcohol Usage This work provides considerable detail on the cultural and educational movements among the Jews of tsarist Russia. It also…

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POLAK POTRAFI: Poles Beat Prussians at Their Own Game. Wallenrodism. Gardner

Poland, a Study in National Idealism, by Monica Mary Gardner. 1915, 2018

An English Author Focuses on the Defiant Successes of Poles Under the Prussian Boot. The Indomitable Polish Spirit is Not Just Reactive or Defensive: It is a Positive Spirit The author provides a snapshot of Poland prior to…

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Poland Was Never Just the Nobility! “Poland” Always Included the Peasantry. DEFINITIVE WORK. Peasant National Consciousness Irrelevant. Gente Ruthenus, Natione Polonus. Althoen

NATIONE POLONUS and the NAROD SZLACHECKI. Two Myths of National Identity and Noble Solidarity, by David Althoen. 2003

Polish Nation Bombshell! The Polish Nobility NEVER Thought That "Polish Nation" Referred Exclusively to the Nobility, or That the Peasantry Was Not Part of the Polish Nation This review is of a…

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Jews Not Nobility Exploited Peasants. Jews Forced Into Commerce a Myth. Episodicity of Jewish Persecution. Klier

Russia Gathers Her Jews: The Origins of the "Jewish Question" in Russia, 1772-1825, by John Doyle Klier. 2011

The Myth of Jews Forced Into Commerce. Exploitation of the Peasants: Less the Fault of the Magnates and More the Fault of the Jews Author John Doyle Klier provides historical background to…

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Polish Nobility Demythologized. Polish Serfdom Dying Out. Agrarian Reform Details. Economics Rather Than Enlightenment Drives Social Change. Hunting Parties Not Pro-Nazi. Helping Jews: Difficulties. Potocki

Master of Lancut, by Alfred Potocki. 1959

Polish Nobility Demythologized. Polish Serfdom Dying Out. Hunting Parties Were Not Implicitly Pro-Nazi. Aiding Fugitive Jews Very Difficult Potocki lived through a large swath of Polish history. He traced his life in Austrian-ruled Galicia (Lancut), Poland's reacquired independence, the 1920 Bolshevik War,…

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POLAK POTRAFI: Poles Beat Prussians Via School Strikes. Kulczycki

School Strikes in Prussian Poland, 1901-1907, by John J. Kulczycki. 1981

Polish Power and the School Strikes: The Anatomy of Polish Resistance to Prussian De-Polonization Policies in the VOLKSSCHULEN Poland had been entirely under foreign rule since the 1790's. By the 1850's, Bismarck's associates were promoting the suppression of Polishness.…

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Kosciuszko Biography. Raclawice. The Polish Minutemen. May 3 Constitution. Finis Poloniae Canard. Storozynski

The Peasant Prince, by Alex Storozynski. 2009. Griffin, New Jersey

A Prince-of-a-Book about Thaddeus Kosciuszko: an American and Polish Hero No single review could possibly do justice to this comprehensive book. For this reason, I focus primarily on matters not developed by other reviewers. Tadeusz Kosciuszko is best known in…

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Polish Nobility Gradually Emancipated Serfs. Dmowski “Germans Main Enemy” Finds Popular Support. Finis Poloniae Canard. Peasant National Consciousness. Liberum Veto Clarified. Edwards

The Polish Captivity: An Account of the Present Position of the Poles in the Kingdom of Poland, and in the Polish Provinces of Austria, Prussia, and Russia, Volume 1, by Henry Sutherland Edwards. 1863, 2015

Emancipates Serfs. A Fascinating Visiting Briton's Observations of 1860's Partitioned Poland. Reputed Polish Noble Severity…

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Ancient Not Modern Origins of Nations and Nationalism. Polish Nation Once Only the Nobility a Myth. Smith

The Ethnic Origins of Nations, by Anthony D. Smith. 1988

Primordialism: Nations Are An Ancient Concept, and Not Children of the Industrial Revolution. Elements of Polish National Self-Identity Nowadays, leftists, globalists, and Euro-enthusiasts would have us belief that nations and nationalism are arbitrary, recent inventions. This makes it easier…

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Germans of Polish Origin. Roucek

 

Slavonic Encyclopaedia, by Joseph S. Roucek (Contributor). 1969

Prominent Germans of Polish (or Other Slavic) Descent This encyclopedia, naturally, covers many different topics, so I will focus on just one. It is found in Volume 2, p. 394, "Germans of Slavonic Origins". German Reformer Martin Luther was descended…

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Polish Nobility: Kresy Landowner Myth. Poles and Not Only Jews Were Plundered. Planned Extermination of Poles. Brown

A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland, by Kate Brown. 2005

Poles Equal Landowners Half-Truth. The Fate of Soviet Poles East of the Riga Line. Polokaust and GENERALPLAN OST Although Kresy often is used by Poles in reference to the eastern half of Poland confiscated…

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Partitions: Jewish Complicity. Prussianization of Poland. Stern

Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichröder and the Building of the German Empire, by Fritz Stern. 1979

Jewish Complicity in the Partition Rule Over Poland: Bismarck and the German-Jewish Symbiosis This book focuses on the German Jew Gerson Bleichroeder, Bismarck's chief banker, and gives much insight into the situation facing Germany's…

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Vienna 1683: King John Sobieski’s Victory Saves Europe From the Muslims. November 1830 Insurrection. January 1863 Insurrection. Early Slavic Presence. Slocombe

History of Poland, by George Slocombe. 1981

Broad-Based Polish History Through the Start of WWII. Especially Good on King John Sobieski and His Victory at Vienna. Major Challenges Facing the Newly-Resurrected Polish State (1918-on) This book is very "meaty". Having read numerous works on the history of Poland, I focus…

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Poland Was Never Just the Nobility! Peasant National Consciousness is Old. Nations and Nationalism are Ancient. Gat

Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism, by Azar Gat, Alexander Yakobson (Contributor). 2013

Nations and Nationalism Go Back to Antiquity: They are Not Recent Inventions! Early Peasant National Consciousness Demonstrated This work presents a series of fascinating, myth-shattering information, and I focus on some…

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Ancient Slavic European Presence. Autochthonic Theory Substantiation. Mielnik-Sikorska

The History of Slavs Inferred From Complete Mitochrondrial Genome Sequences, by Marta Mielnik-Sikorska. 2013

The Ancient Presence of Slavic Peoples in Their Current Geographic European Locations. Implication: Nations and Peoples are Not Recent and Historically-Accidental Constructs This fascinating research article is originally from PLOS ONE, Volume 8, Issue 1. It…

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Ancient Not Recent Polish European Presence. Autochthonic Theory Substantiated. Juras

Ancient DNA Reveals Matrilineal Continuity in Present-Day Poland over the Last Two Millennia, by Anna Juras. 2014

No Recent Arrivals! Poles Have Lived on Present-Day Polish Territory For at Least the Last 2,000 Years The article is from PLOS ONE 9(10)e110839. The authors describe how they sampled some ancient Read more

Peasant National Consciousness is Old. Early Polish-Jewish Economic Rivalry. Stauter-Halsted

The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848-1914, by Keely Stauter-Halsted. 2011

Polish Peasant National Consciousness Long Preceded Emancipation and Literacy. Some Jews Used Bribery and Political Pressure to Thwart Newcomer Polish Peasant Businessmen The term "peasant", a somewhat ambiguous term, refers to…

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POLAK POTRAFI: Poles Beat Prussians at Their Own Game. Treitschke. Trzeciakowski

The Kulturkampf in Prussian Poland, by Lech Trzeciakowski. 1990

POLAK POTRAFI: Poles Beat Bismarck and the Prussians Through Practical Activism This book is a translation from the Polish. The author places the Polish struggle against Bismarck's KULTURKAMPF [Culture War] in the broader context of German attempts to centralize the post-unification…

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Early Polish Achievements. Germans Built Poland a Myth. Partitions: Jewish Complicity. Tennant

Studies in Polish Life and History, by A.E. Tennant. 1924

Pre-Mieszko Slavic Achievements. Jewish Complicity in Partitions. Jews and the Pre-Partitions Decay of Poland. Jews and the Crusades This work is a Scottish perspective on the history of Poland. It covers many subjects in its broad sweep of Polish history…

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Piast Poland: Rebutting German and Ukrainian Revisionism. Upper Dniester Basin Not “Eternally Ukrainian”. Koneczny

Dzieje Polski za Piastów, by Feliks Koneczny. 1902, 1997

Territories East of the Elbe River Were Not Originally German. They Were Slavic. Upper Dniester Was Not "Eternally Ukrainian" Title: THE DEEDS OF POLAND DURING THE TIME OF THE PIAST DYNASTY. This work, originally published in 1902, surveys the first few…

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Partitions: British Complicity. Belloc

Return to the Baltic, by Hilaire Belloc. 1938

Candor on British anti-Polish Attitudes. British Complicity in the Partitions of Poland Author Hilaire Belloc, a French-born British-French writer, described his travels to the Scandinavian nations and Poland. My review focuses on the latter, and is based on the 1938 edition of…

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Corvee: Its Gradual Disappearance. Economics Rather Than Enlightenment Drives Social Change. Peasants Not Rare in January 1863 Insurrection. The Uprising Government, Not Tsar, Abolished Serfdom. Korys

Poland From Partitions to Eu Accession: A Modern Economic History, 1772-2004, by Piotr Korys. 2018. Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland

Upends Some Widely-Held Narratives About Serfdom, the Polish Peasantry, and the January 1863 Insurrection This work is comprehensive, and I focus on a few seldom-known facts. THE CORVEE WAS DISAPPEARING BECAUSE OF…

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Vienna 1683: Sobieski Saves Europe From the Muslims. Millar

Vienna 1683: Christian Europe Repels the Ottomans, by Simon Millar. 2008

Polish King John Sobieski Defeats the Muslim Turks at Vienna, Saving Austria and Europe. Short Austrian Gratitude and Then Long-Term Austrian Ingratitude, Even to This Very Day This short, easy-reading book packs a lot of detail into relatively few…

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Pre-Partition Poland’s Internal Weakness Not Unusual. Example From British History. Pilsudski 1926 Never Abolished Democracy. Patterson

Pilsudski: Marshall of Poland, by Eric James Patterson. 1934

Pre-Partition Poland Weaknesses Were Nothing Unusual Among Nations. 1926: The Myth of Pilsudski the Dictator: Poland's Democracy Was Never Abolished This delightful book spans the life of Pilsudski from before his birth, his revolutionary days in tsarist-Russian occupied Poland, the resurrection…

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Targowica: the Facts. Kosciuszko. The Duchy of Warsaw. Countess Potocka

Memoirs of the Countess Potocka, by Casimir Stryienski (Editor), Lionel Strachey (Translator). 2004

Assessing Targowica, 1794 Russian Massacre of Warsaw's Poles. Details on Czartoryski, Tsar Nicholas I, etc. My review is based on the original 1900 edition. Most of this work deals with family matters and personages, as seen by…

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Jews Not Nobility Exploited Peasants. Slavic Fatalism Reason. Thomas and Znaniecki

The Polish Peasant in Europe and America: a classic work in immigration history, by William I. Thomas, Florian Znaniecki. 1918, 1956

Valuable Insights into Early 20th-Century Polish-Jewish Relations, Polish Society, Peasant Thinking and Habits, etc. My review of this 5-volume work is limited to the 1st volume of the 1956-reprinted…

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German DRANG NACH OSTEN in History. Long Pre-Nazi History of German Aggression. Marvey

A Thousand Years of German Aggression, by S. M. Marvey. 1943

The DRANG NACH OSTEN: Age-Old German Designs on Poland This small book is limited to German expansionism against the Slavic east, and doesn't begin to do justice to the scope of proto-Nazi German thinking that existed long before…

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Poland Not Imperialist: Polish 1609 “Grab” of Moscow Retained Russian Freedoms. Polish Nobility Featured. Endeks Clarified. Lutoslawski

The Polish Nation (Classic Reprint), by Wincenty Lutoslawski. 1917, 2018

Leading Endek Thinker Clarifies Misconceptions About Polish Nationalism, of the SZLACHTA, of Polish "Imperialism" and the 1609 "Seizure" of Moscow, and of Poland as "Jesus Christ of Nations" The author, Wincenty Lutoslawski (1863-1954) was a National Democrat (Endek), and friend…

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Polish Nobility Supported American Revolution. Polish Achievements: California Poles. Przygoda

Polish Americans in California, 1827-1977 and Who's Who, by Jacek Przygoda. 1978

The Flourishing California Polonia: Sketches of Shared Polish-American History. Polish Nobility Supported the American Revolution (sic) The American West is thought of primarily in terms of Anglo-Saxon settlers and Indians. However, as pointed out in a quote from…

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Partitions: Jewish Complicity. Why Polish Antisemitism Without Jews. Donald Tusk and Why Polexit Needed. Michalkiewicz and Sommer

Michalkiewicz Wariant Rozbiorowy: 12 Rozmow o Tym Jak Polska Traci Niepodleglosc, by Tomasz Sommer. 2011

A Prophetic Book! Insights into the European Union, JEWISH COMPLICITY IN THE PARTITIONS OF POLAND, etc. A VARIATION OF PARTITION is the title of this Polish-language book. It contains a variety of information. DONALD…

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