Debate on anti-semitism in Poland

Poles are talking about the new book by US historian Jan Tomasz Gross, "Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz," which comes out on January 11 in Polish. In the work, published in the USA in 2006, Gross describes anti-Semitic pogroms in post-war Poland. Szewach Weiss, Polish-born former Israeli Knesset President and ambassador in Warsaw, says Poland must face its past.  "I hope that books like 'Fear' by Jan Tomasz Gross will trigger a kind of catharsis. The unpleasant process of purification is necessary, because murder is murder, and anti-Semitism, xenophobia and racism are shameful. I sense that today most Poles are quite far from such views, and there are places in Europe where there is more anti-Semitism. But you cannot simply erase the evil aspects of one's history."

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