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ISBN: 9781760644369   May 2024

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JQ256 - May 2024

Blindness:

October 7 and the Left

 

After October 7, many on the left justified, dismissed or championed acts and beliefs they would otherwise view as unconscionable. Why?


This issue of The Jewish Quarterly explores the response of the left to the Hamas attacks in Israel of October 7 and the willingness of progressives to abandon values that they purport to represent.

In this crucial essay, author and columnist Hadley Freeman examines the equivocations, contortions and hypocrisy displayed by elements of the left, including many who were unable to name, acknowledge or condemn the atrocities of Hamas.

Freeman looks at the beliefs and mindsets that have swept across sectors such as universities, politics, media and the arts, and resulted in a fervour that blinds its adherents to the realities and complexities of history and justice.


Hadley Freeman is a journalist and author. Her books include House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family and Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia.

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The Jewish Quarterly has cultivated literary journalism of the highest standard for almost seventy years. It is an independent publication that explores Jewish issues, and issues of humanity from a Jewish perspective.

In 2021, The Jewish Quarterly has relaunched and will be distributed and accessible worldwide. It has been redesigned and published in an elegant book format. Each issue features a major political or cultural theme, investigated in long-form essays by prominent voices from around the world.

JQ’s mission is not to advocate, but to investigate complex and pressing matters of politics, religion, history and culture, and to do so in depth.

“We are proud to be relaunching The Jewish Quarterly in 2021. Our only hope is to fulfil the ambitions that Jacob Sonntag envisioned for the journal when he founded it in 1953.”

— Morry Schwartz, Publisher, The Jewish Quarterly
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JQ257 - August 2024

Whitewash:

Poland and the Jews

 

This issue of The Jewish Quarterly explores the failure of modern Poland to reckon with the nation's role in the Holocaust.

In this ground-breaking essay, Jan Grabowski, a world-renowned Holocaust historian, examines how the government, museums, schools and state institutions became complicit in delivering a message of Polish national innocence during the Holocaust. He recounts his own experience as the victim of smears and a notorious lawsuit for questioning the complicity of Poles in the destruction of the country's Jews, and examines the far-reaching consequences of Poland's historical distortions, which have been repeated and replicated worldwide to challenge the truth of the Holocaust.
 

Jan Grabowski is a professor of history at the University of Ottawa. His books include Rescue for Money and Hunt for the Jews, winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize. His most recent book is On Duty: The Role of the Polish Blue and Criminal Police in the Holocaust. He and co-editor Barbara Engelking were sued in Poland for their book, Night Without End, which included their research into Polish collaboration with the Nazis.