Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland

<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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br /><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 universities and workplaces that conjured up ugly memories of Nazi Germany.</p>