The book aims to reconstruct and analyze the disputes over the Polish-Jewish past and memory in public debates in Poland between 1985 and 2012. The analysis includes the course and dynamics of the debates and, most importantly, the panorama of opinions revealed in the process.

Piotr Forecki, PhD, is Assistant Professor of the Section of Political Culture at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznán (Poland). He is a member of the Jewish Historical Institute Association. His academic research concerns the Polish memory of the Holocaust, the representation of the Holocaust in feature films, anti-Semitism and hate speech in public discourse.

Contents: Public Discourse – Collective Memory and Collective Forgetting – Collective Forgetting of the Holocaust – The Holocaust – Anti-Semitism – Difficult Past – Jan Tomasz Gross’ – Crime in Jedwabne – Claude Lanzmann’s – Jan Błoński’s essay – Hate Speech – Political Transition – Symbolic Elites.