FOSTERING A VIBRANT RENEWAL OF JUDAISM IN POLAND
Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland Present
Freighted Legacies (Dziedzictwa obarczone):
The Culture and History of Jewish Interactions in Poland
Cursed: A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom
May 12, 2024
10AM PST / 1PM New York / 6PM London / 7PM Warsaw / 8PM Tel Aviv
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In Cursed: A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom, Joanna Tokarska-Bakir investigates the July 4, 1946, Kielce pogrom, a milestone in the immediate post-Holocaust events impacting Jewish life in Poland and the Jewish diaspora. This massacre compelled thousands of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust to flee postwar Poland. It remains a negative reference point in the Polish historical narrative and represents a lack of reckoning with the role of antisemitism in postwar Polish society and identity politics.
Cursed is a microhistory that recreates the events of the Kielce pogrom step by step and examines the dominant hypotheses about the pogrom through the prism of previously classified archival evidence.
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Background materials
Dr. Joanna Tokarska-Bakir
Dr. Joanna Tokarska-Bakir is Professor of Humanities and Chair of Ethnic and National Relations Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is the author of Pogrom Cries, Jewish Fugitives in the Polish Countryside, and several other publications on the ethnography of the Holocaust. Tokarska-Bakir received the 2019 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Pod klątwą, of which Cursed is an abridged English translation. Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland participated in enabling the translation of Cursed to English.
Interlocutor
Prof. Jan T. Gross
Princeton University, and author of Neighbors and Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz, will be Dr. Tokarska-Bakir’s interlocutor.
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