Jan T. Gross Neighbors:
The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
ISBN: 0142002402

From the Publisher (The Penguin Group):

On a summer day in 1941 in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the other half: 1,600 men, women, and children-all but seven of the town's Jews. In this shocking and compelling study, historian Jan Gross pieces together eyewitness accounts as well as physical evidence into a comprehensive reconstruction of the horrific July day remembered well by locals but hidden to history. Revealing wider truths about Jewish-Polish relations, the Holocaust, and human responses to occupation and totalitarianism, Gross's investigation sheds light on how Jedwabne's Jews came to be murdered-not by faceless Nazis, but by people who knew them well.

About the Author: Jan T. Gross is a professor of history at Princeton University. He has written numerous academic and historical studies, including Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. He is coeditor of The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath.

Reviews Available from Academic Search Elite in GALILEO:

• Friedman, Saul. Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 21.4(2003): 147-49.
• Kenney, Padraic. Neighbors. American Historical Review 107.3(2002): 970-71.
• Stone, Dan. Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland. Journal of Holocaust Education 10.3(2001): 114-17.
• Stachura, Peter D. Neighbors. History 87.286(2002): 312-13.