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(More customer reviews)Growing up in Canada as the son of Holocaust sruvivors, Arthur Wolak has traveled and studied extensively in a post-Commu-nist Poland. Forced Out: The Fate Of Polish Jewry In Communist Poland is a meticulously, informative, and insightful history of those political, economic, and foreign policy issues and circumstances that led to the post-World War II and holocaust era exodus of most of Poland's remaining Jews. Chapters discuss anti-semitism in Poland, including Communist government propaganda that targeted Jews as scapegoats to distract the population from economic troubles and other systemic failings, as well as the post-communist era future and the relationship between Poland, Poland's Jews, and Israel. A thoughtful, literate, well-researched and plainly presented account, as accessible to the lay reader as it is to sociologists and historians. Highly recommended for Judaic Studies and 20th Century European History academic reference collections.


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In the late 1960s, after the Holocaust had brought about the almost total destruction of centuries of Jewish civilization in Poland, senior leaders of the ruling Communist Party initiated a domestic terror campaign that resulted in the unceremonious eviction of thousands of Polish Jews. Why did the leadership of a nation that professed equality among all peoples suddenly drive them into exile? In Forced Out, Arthur Wolak explores this turbulent era, revealing a period in modern European history that offers important lessons about the dangers of political opportunism and the inherent evils of totalitarianism. Surveying the Jewish experience in Poland from the reign of Poland's kings to the present day, Forced Out details this important yet little-known era in Poland, a nation that has since broken through the Iron Curtain to emerge as one of the West's staunchest allies as a member of NATO and the European Union.

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