Polish Intellectuals and Anti-Semitism

Poland today is the classic home of “anti-Semitism without Jews.” More than twenty years after the frenzied anti-Semitic campaign of 1968, which brought about the exodus of nearly all remaining Polish Jews, hardly a week goes by without some anti-Semitic incident either in the capital or in a provincial city.

On September 5, 1990, for instance, Gazeta wyborcza —the only daily (edited by Adam Michnik) reporting regularly on such incidents—published a photograph of...