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'''Jan Tomasz Gross''' (born ], ]) is a Polish American historian and sociologist. Some of his works have proven to be highly controversial, particularly in Poland. | ||
| He was born in ], ], to a Polish mother, who has been a member of the Polish resistance (]) and a ] father. His mother risking her own life, helped his father to survive the Nazi occupation in Poland. They married after the war. Jan Tomasz Gross studied physics at ]. Arrested for five months and expelled from the university for his participation in ] in 1968, he emigrated with his parents to the ] in 1969, following the anti-semitic campaign launched by Poland's ruling communist party. In 1975 he earned a Ph.D. in sociology from ], and has taught at Yale, NYU, and Paris. He gained US citizenship and currently teaches history at ]. | He was born in ], ], to a Polish mother, who has been a member of the Polish resistance (]) and a ] father. His mother risking her own life, helped his father to survive the Nazi occupation in Poland. They married after the war. Jan Tomasz Gross studied physics at ]. Arrested for five months and expelled from the university for his participation in ] in 1968, he emigrated with his parents to the ] in 1969, following the anti-semitic campaign launched by Poland's ruling communist party. In 1975 he earned a Ph.D. in sociology from ], and has taught at Yale, NYU, and Paris. He gained US citizenship and currently teaches history at ]. | ||
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Jan Tomasz Gross (born December 8, 1947) is a Polish American historian and sociologist. Some of his works have proven to be highly controversial, particularly in Poland.
He was born in Warsaw, Poland, to a Polish mother, who has been a member of the Polish resistance (Armia Krajowa) and a Polish-Jewish father. His mother risking her own life, helped his father to survive the Nazi occupation in Poland. They married after the war. Jan Tomasz Gross studied physics at Warsaw University. Arrested for five months and expelled from the university for his participation in Polish student and intellectual protest in 1968, he emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1969, following the anti-semitic campaign launched by Poland's ruling communist party. In 1975 he earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University, and has taught at Yale, NYU, and Paris. He gained US citizenship and currently teaches history at Princeton University.
Gross was also 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.
He is best known for his 2001 book on the Jedwabne massacre, "Neighbors", which examined a pogrom against the Polish Jews in Jedwabne village in Nazi-occupied Poland. In his book Gross 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. A subsequent investigation conducted by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance largely supported Gross' conclusions about the massacre and only differed on technical details such as the number of victims.
His most recent book "Fear - Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz", which deals with anti-semitism and violence against Jews in post-war Poland was published in 2006. Its Polish version, published in 2008, provoked many conflicting opinions and began a debate about anti-semitism in post war Poland. The book was first released in the United States in 2006, where it was greeted with warm reviews. In Poland, however, the book has been sharply criticized in newspaper editorials and reviews and by historians accusing Gross of using inflammatory language and unfairly labeling all of postwar Polish society as anti-Semitic.
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 zesłali ... 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
- Norman Davies describes "Neighbors" as "deeply unfair to Poles". Source: Davies: "Strach" to nie analiza, lecz publicystyka, Gazeta Wyborcza, January 21, 2008 Template:Pl icon
- ^ Craig Whitlock, A Scholar's Legal Peril in Poland, Washington Post Foreign Service, Friday, January 18, 2008; Page A14
- Postanowienie o umorzeniu śledztwa IPN, June 30, 2003 Template:Pl icon
- Marek Jan Chodakiewicz: People’s past has to be reviewed critically on individual basis, Rzeczpospolita, January 11, 2008 Template:En icon
- Piotr Gontarczyk, Far From Truth, Rzeczpospolita, January 12, 2008 Template:En icon