Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland First Edition Edition

by Jan T. Gross (Author)

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On a summer day in 1941 in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the other half: 1,600 men, women, and children-all but seven of the town's Jews. In this shocking and compelling study, historian Jan Gross pieces together eyewitness accounts as well as physical evidence into a comprehensive reconstruction of the horrific July day remembered well by locals but hidden to history. Revealing wider truths about Jewish-Polish relations, the Holocaust, and human responses to occupation and totalitarianism, Gross's investigation sheds light on how Jedwabne's Jews came to be murdered-not by faceless Nazis, but by people who knew them well.

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"An important contribution to the literature of human bestiality unleashed by war." —The New York Times Book Review

"Like an oral tale transcribed by a folklorist, it has the ring of the eternal to it.... Hatred like this runs deep in human nature and is ever ready to erupt again. Be warned." —Los Angeles Times

"Extraordinary." —New Republic

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Jan T. Gross is a professor of politics and European studies at New York University. He has written numerous academic and historical studies, including Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. He is coeditor of The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath.

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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books; First Edition edition (October 29, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0142002402
ISBN-13: 978-0142002407
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.6 x 7.8 inches
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Average Customer Review: 147 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #124 in Books > History > World > Religious > Judaism
- #170 in Books > Textbooks > Humanities > History > Military
- #231 in Books > Textbooks > Humanities > History > Europe

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POIGNANT, TOUCHING...

June 15, 2018

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A very poignant and well documented story of one Polish town during WWII. A must read for anyone even remotely interested in attempting to learn something - not only about the Shoah - but about human nature, as exposed during the Holocaust.

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George

It was a well written text about a horrific event ...

February 28, 2018

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It was a well written text about a horrific event I was unaware of, but it needs an addendum to the current state of affairs in Poland.

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This tells the story of a town in Poland that ...

December 6, 2016

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This tells the story of a town in Poland that you may not have heard of. It is hard to believe that people can treat others in that way. It is another book of the Holocaust and worth reading to learn more about that period that often goes unheard of.

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August 2, 2017

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Paints grim picture of the massacre that occurred in Jedwabne, I recommend this book to anyone interested in finding out a fraction of what it might have felt to be living during this dangerous time.

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fast delivery, accurate description

April 17, 2018

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Important book. Fast delivery

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A quick and easy read, though not for the faint hearted.

November 7, 2017

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Once you pick it up, you won't be able to put it down.

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November 7, 2017

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Great book about sad history

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Good topic but short and not well researched.

December 30, 2001

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This book has recieved much criticism and rightly so for its poor research. Gross never visited Jedwabne or conducted the interviews. In addition, their are very few sources but Gross trys to explain this away with his own personal view of historiography. Furthermore, the book is only 173 pages plus notes. Much of that is not even dedicated to Jedwabne but to other pogroms and what Gross calls "atavistic antisemitism" in Poland. However, it does bring to light for the first time that not only Nazis but also Poles participated in the killing of Jews and is noteworthy for this reason.

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Jan Gross deserves a lot of credit for breaking the ...

Jan Gross deserves a lot of credit for breaking the lies of a Polish Nationalist narrative that Poles were largely innocent in the Holocaust.
Many were not.

Published 2 months ago

JDC

Meticulously Researched Account of an Appalling Historical Event

Appalling history of the enthusiastic and grotesque murder of most of the Jews in in Jedwabne by their Polish neighbors in 1941.Read more

Published 2 months ago

Amazon Customer

The exhumations where not done yet

Such a lie the bodies are still waiting for the exhumations after that we will know the truth .There are many witnesses that say it was the German natzies .Read more

Published 3 months ago

Nir Caspi

Share the truth about polish criminals.

The truth about the polish murderers must be told! We have not forgotten our families!! R.I.P

Published 3 months ago

Alex

It's a really good read despite the horrors in the book

It's a really good read despite the horrors in the book. Those who gave it one star are obviously Poles who deny that Poles had anything to do with murdering Jewish communities.Read more

Published 4 months ago

Agape

Jan T. Gross is not a historian and this book is not accurate

Jan Tomasz Gross ‘is no historian’: Piotr Gontarczyk
10.07.2016 12:40
Commemorations were held on Sunday in the north-eastern town of Jedwabne to mark the 75th...Read more

Published 4 months ago

Customer

Story of lies from a sociologist author.

It is hard to belive that Jewish people stopped the exhumation in Jedwabne in 2001 and "made" an author; a sociologist J.T.Read more

Published 4 months ago

Doug

Man's inhumanity to man.

In this slim volume, author Jan Gross ponders the slaughter of all of the Jewish residents of a Polish village by their neighbors.Read more

Published 6 months ago

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