The Expulsion Of Jews From Communist Poland Av Anat Plocker

<p>In March 1968, against the background of the Six-Day War, a campaign of antisemitism and anti-Zionism swept through Poland. <i>The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland</i> is the first full-length study of the events, their precursors, and the aftermath of this turbulent period. </p><p>Plocker offers a new framework for understanding how this antisemitic campaign was motivated by a genuine fear of Jewish influence and international power. She sheds new light on the internal dynamics of the communist regime in Poland, stressing the importance of middle-level functionaries, whose dislike and fear of Jews had an unmistakable impact on the evolution of party policy. </p><p><i>The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland</i> examines how Communist Party leader Wladyslaw Gomulka''s anti-Zionist rhetoric spiraled out of hand and opened up a fraught Pandora''s box of old assertions that Jews controlled the Communist Party, the revival of nationalist chauvinism, and a witch hunt in univers