PART I TEXT
Foreword by Richard Pipes .................................... 5
Chapter 1. Jews in Poland, Synopsis of a 1000 Year History ............... 11
Chapter 2. 1264 Statute on Jewish Liberties in Poland .................... 39
Chapter 3. Jewish Autonomy in Poland 1[zasłonięte]264-17 ....................... 59
Chapter 4. German Annihilation of the Jews .......................... 87
German and Polish Documents of Shoah ............................. 88
PART I.  APPENDKES
1. Eastern Strategy, World War I ................................ 137
2. H. Grynberg, Is Polish Anti-Semitism Special? ...................... 147
3. Reconciliation Appeal ..................................... 151
4. Polish Bishops on Anti-Semitism ............................... 153
5. President Wałęsa's Speech to the Knesset ......................... 155
6. Protest of an Open Slander and the "Genocide Libel" .................. 156
7. Dr. R. Slovenko on Polish-Jewish Relations ........................ 157
8. Bibliography and Recommended Reading .......................... 179
PART II.  ILLUSTRATIONS
Jews in Polish Graphic Arts ................................... 183
Jewish Press in Poland ...................................... 236
PART III.  ATLAS
Poland in Jewish History, A Perspective ............................ 243
Early Settlements in Poland,[zasłonięte]966-12 ............................. 263
The Crucial 500 Years, 1[zasłonięte]264-17 ............................... 269
Under Foreign Rule, Competition, 1[zasłonięte]795-19 ........................ 289
The Last Blossoming of Jewish Culture in Poland, 1[zasłonięte]918-19 ............... 301
Shpah, German Genocide of the Jews, 1[zasłonięte]940-19 ...................... 315
Briha, the Escape from Europę, 1945- ............................. 349
Itemized Table of Contents .................................................... 356
Index ..................................................................... 365
Glossary of Latin, Hebrew, and Yiddish Terms .................................... 399
Addendum to 1998 Edition
Goodwill Between Jewish and Polish People: Obstacle of Kielce Pogrom of July 1946 ..... 403
Commentary on Holocaust Museum Meeting, October 1995 .......................... 421
Review of JEWS IN POLAND by M.K. Dziewanowski ............................. 424
Wehrmacht Kill Civilians in Pancevo, Servia, 1941 ................................. 425
Additional illustrations ....................................................... 426

On JEWS IN POLAND: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY

"The book endeavors to 'encompass' Jews within the Polish discourse, a ranty in American scholarship and in the discourse about Jews. While Poles have often been encompassed within the Jewish discourse (and also within other discourses), the other way around has never been attempted. This pioneering attempt, as well as the sheer volume of documentation gathered in this volume, mąkę Pogonowski's opus remarkable and unusual."
—M.K. Dziewanowski, Professor Emeritus ofHistory at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; author ofWaratAny Price (1990)

"Mr. Pogonowski's colorful compendium fills a very definite need. It is specially welcome on three counts. First, it covers a wide span of history, from the earliest times to 1991. Second, among other things, it contains a mass of documentary materiał that is not readily available in English. Third, an extensive collection of maps and prints enlivens the body of detailed information, bringing it within the reach of a wide audience. I learned much from reading the book. It will be a rare reader who does not do the same."
—Professor Norman Davies, Oxford University

"The fact that today over ninety percent of Ashkenazic Jews tracę their origins to the historical lands of the old Polish Commonwealth testifies to the importance of the Polish chapter of the Jewish history. Iwo Cyprian PogonowskTs Jews in Poland: A Documentary History gives fuli documentation to this historie truth and places it in the permanent record."
—JózefGierowski, Professor ofHistory and farmer President ofthe Jagiellonian University of Kraków

"Pogonowski shows us the wealth of the still living legacy of Polish and Lithuanian Jews carried by their descendants in the Diaspora and the State of Israel. This legacy represents an important element of the modern European and world culture."
—Aleksander Gieysztor, Professor ofHistory and President ofthe Polish Academy of Sciences

"The need for a good historical atlas describing the history of the Jews in Poland has long been recognized. This carefully researched and well drawn volume will enable students and the lay public to better understand the complex problems of the Polish-Jewish past and of Polish-Jewish relations."
—Anthony Polonsky, Professor of International History at the London School ofEconomics and Political Science; Professor of Jewish History at Brandeis University

FOREWORD
Morę than half a century ago, the writer of these lines attended school in Warsaw with Mr. Pogonowski, the author of this book. The clouds of war were gathering over our heads and there was a premonition of great upheavals. None of us, however, had the slightest suspicion that the Germans, universally regarded as an outstandingly cultured nation, were preparing a massacre of the entire Jewish people. True, Hitler in early 1939 had publicly warned that if the Jews dared to "unleash" another world war, they would be destroyed; but no one took these words seriously. Even today the monstrosity of what the Germans had committed, especially on the territory of Poland, exceeds the capacity of the normal mind to comprehend.
Mr. Pogonowski, who has had his own dreadful experiences with Nazism, has gathered a great deal of materiał on the history of the Jews in Poland and its tragic finale. Contrary to prevailing opinion, the story of Polish Jewry was not always one of poverty and persecution. For a long time, Jews enjoyed in Poland a safe haven; how else can one explain the extraordinary growth of the Polish Jewish community and its central place in the development of Jewish religious and secular life? The anti-Semitic poison first madę itself felt in the nineteenth century, reaching a state of destructive fury in the twentieth. Even though Hitler selected Poland as the principal slaughter house for the "finał solution" and too many Poles turned their back on its victims, it must never be mistakenly believed that the Holocaust was perpetrated by Poles. Nor must it be ignored that three million Poles perished at German hands.
The Holocaust is the name given to the sadistic killing of six million individual human beings, a ąuarter of them children. The materials collected in this volume bring to life some of these tragedies, but also the record of good will and exemplary heroism.
Richard Pipes, Professor of History at Harvard University, former Director of East European and Soviet Affairs in the National Security Council, 1[zasłonięte]981-19.