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Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]
Poland is traditionally, that is, historically, a Roman Catholic nation, Poloniusz et al.
The State which represents the religious convictions of her citizens might indeed separate
such a distinction on paper, though scarcely in practice.
George Washington was a Protestant by conviction, yet maintained a strict adherence to the
legal separation between Church and State, while at the same time, allowing both Jews and Catholics to peacefully co-exist. He permitted Jews to enter
the New World, so long as they neither required not exacted any financial assistance from our government.
Throughout Poland ever since she was Christianized, Jews were a barely tolerated, if scarcely "welcomed: group within
the borders of Poland. So long as they practiced their religion in private, made no demands on their gentile neighbors
by behaving themselves, they could even attend school as well as exist within their community.. A small number converted to Catholicism, a slightly larger number
still ended up becoming assimilated into Polish society, acknowledging their Jewish roots, simultaneously adopting to
national life. But it wasn't easy.
