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Revision as of 03:40, 22 January 2008 by Dr. Dan (talk | contribs) (clarifying what happenned during the "pogrom".)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Jan Tomasz Gross (born December 8, 1947) is a controversial American historian and sociologist of Polish Jewish origin. He was born in Warsaw in Poland, where he attended Warsaw University. Arrested and expelled from the university for his participation in Polish student and intellectual protest in 1968, he emigrated to the United States in 1969, following the anti-semitic campaign launched by Poland's ruling communist party. He later earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University, and has taught at Yale, NYU, and Paris, in addition to Princeton. Gross is Professor of History and the Norman B. Tomlinson '16 and '48 Professor of War and Society at Princeton University.
He is most known for his work on the Jedwabne massacre, the controversial "Neighbors" book (2001), describing the murder of Polish Jews by gentile Poles during a pogrom in the village of Jedwabne in Nazi occupied Poland during Second World War. In the book he argued that the massacre was conducted by Poles and not by the German occupiers, as previously assumed. The claims were the subject of vigorous debate in Poland. However, the results of an investigation conducted by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance did not support the details of Gross' version of events. For example, it estimated the number of victims being about 380, while Gross earlier claimed 1600 in his book and, most importantly, determined that German troops were present at the scene .
One of his other notable books is "Fear -Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz", in which he covers the Kielce pogrom and instances of violence against Jews in post-war Poland. The book (available in Polish since January 11, 2008) has caused uproar and provoked many conflicting opinions in Poland.
Gross was awarded Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, an award granted to foreigners for their exceptional role in cooperation between Poland and other nations. He was also a Senior Fulbright Research, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial, and Rockefeller Humanities Fellow.
Publications
Books
- Gross, Jan Tomasz (1979). Polish Society Under German Occupation - Generalgouvernement, 1939-1944. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- Gross, Jan Tomasz (1984). W czterdziestym nas matko na Sybir zeslali ... London: Aneks.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthor=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - Gross, Jan Tomasz (1998). Upiorna dekada, 1939-1948. Trzy eseje o stereotypach na temat Żydów, Polaków, Niemców i komunistów. Kraków: Universitas.
- Gross, Jan Tomasz (1998). Upiorna dekada, 1939-1948. Trzy eseje o stereotypach na temat Żydów, Polaków, Niemców i komunistów. Kraków: Universitas.
- Gross, Jan Tomasz (1999). Studium zniewolenia. Kraków: Universitas.
- Gross, Jan Tomasz (2000). The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
{{cite book}}: Text "ed. Istvan Deak and Tony Judt" ignored (help) - Gross, Jan Tomasz (2001). Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-14-200240-2.
- Gross, Jan Tomasz (2003). Revolution from Abroad. The Soviet Conquest of Poland’s Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-09603-1.
- Gross, Jan Tomasz (2003). Wokół Sąsiadów. Polemiki i wyjaśnienia (in Polish). Sejny: Pogranicze. ISBN 8386872489.
- Gross, Jan Tomasz (2006). Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz. Random House. ISBN 0-375-50924-0.
Other
- "Lato 1941 w Jedwabnem. Przyczynek do badan nad udzialem spolecznosci lokalnych w eksterminacji narodu zydowskiego w latach II wojny swiatowej," in Non-provincial Europe, Krzysztof Jasiewicz ed., Warszawa - London: Rytm, ISP PAN, 1999, pp. 1097-1103
Notes
- Craig Whitlock, A Scholar's Legal Peril in Poland, Washington Post Foreign Service, Friday, January 18, 2008; Page A14