Remembering Warsaw By Trashing Zionism « Commentary Magazine
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/04/19/remembering-warsaw-by-trashing-zionism/
............" But the problem with this attempt to rehabilitate afailed ideology is that even in the 1930s, the idea
that there was a viable Jewish future in a virulently anti-Semitic Poland set in a Europe where Nazism was on the rise was the fantasy, not the burgeoning and successful effort to rebuild Jewish life in whatwas then called Palestine. As Shore notes, after the war when almost all of the survivors of the revolt found their way to Israel, Edelman stayed in Poland and served as a doctor. But his subsequent life in a Poland where those few Jews who stayed behind were subjected to a new wave of anti-Semitism from the Communist government merely demonstrated anew how wrong the Bundists had been all along. While she writes of him as someone celebrated today as a Polish hero, anti-Semitism is alive and well in contemporary Poland."......
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/04/19/remembering-warsaw-by-trashing-zionism/
............" But the problem with this attempt to rehabilitate afailed ideology is that even in the 1930s, the idea
that there was a viable Jewish future in a virulently anti-Semitic Poland set in a Europe where Nazism was on the rise was the fantasy, not the burgeoning and successful effort to rebuild Jewish life in whatwas then called Palestine. As Shore notes, after the war when almost all of the survivors of the revolt found their way to Israel, Edelman stayed in Poland and served as a doctor. But his subsequent life in a Poland where those few Jews who stayed behind were subjected to a new wave of anti-Semitism from the Communist government merely demonstrated anew how wrong the Bundists had been all along. While she writes of him as someone celebrated today as a Polish hero, anti-Semitism is alive and well in contemporary Poland."......
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