"This is a major addition to Holocaust studies for both popular and academic readers... [C]omprehensive, compelling and thoughtful ... Polonsky and Michlic have done a splendid job of collecting and arranging this material to highlight the inherent intellectual, moral and historical tensions."
Publishers Weekly "A meritorious, comprehensive reference book revealing a spectral episode which still haunts Poland."
Adam LeBor, Jewish Chronicle "As ... Read morePolonsky and Michlic persuasively argue, the debate over Neighbors is more than an argument over the massacre of Polish Jews by their gentile countrymen. It is symptomatic of a greater debate over how Poland's history can, or should, be understood in the wake of the war and after the cultural vacuum created by decades of Communist rule."
Library Journal "The Neighbors Respond is both an important and disturbing book."
Jack Fischel, Jewish Book World "This is an interesting, highly motivated engagement of a human tragedy reflective of social prejudice that is manifested in any group that premeditatedly considers its relationship with a distinctly different group. It is a telling tale of two peoples, one land, a common tragedy, whose appeal stretches beyond a village in Poland and provides a model for similar studies of other groups in conflict."
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