Article: Pluralism's bitter fruit: blaming the Jews. (Poland)

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U.S. News & World Report
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September 10, 1990
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There is one synagogue in Warsaw today and 60 practicing Jews, mostly elderly. In all of Poland, where 3.5 million Jews lived before the Holocaust, there are no more than 9,000 Jews today. Yet after decades of Fascism and Communism, democracy is proving no antidote to lingering Polish anti-Semitism. Instead, with political freedom has come new abuse-not enough to threaten lives or property but sufficient to alarm both the dwindling Jewish community and the Solidarity-led government.

Exactly who is behind the rash of noxious graffiti, the desecrated Jewish cemeteries, the innuendo and the hate-filled pamphlets on sale in some public places in Poland today is not ...

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