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Posts by 1jola  

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1jola   
7 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

Well, maybe not in Warschau, but I've seen pics of German troops entering Prague and plenty of the ppl there were cheering.

That's the point, bro. That's why one should avoid misleading words like everywhere. Similarly, one should not say that all Jews were communists.

And don't bother with the pics. We seen them. Vatela has a point there. We've all seen footage of Jews dancing in streets of Warsaw Ghetto. No explanation necessary.
1jola   
7 May 2010
Law / What are the bike laws in Poland? [30]

If you are drunk on a bike, you will lose your driver's license, if you have one. If you ride on sidewalks you will get a ticket. If you don't obey traffic laws, you will get a ticket. Of course, some of my friends have excellent bikes and enjoy riding on the tracks in front of the tram on the Poniatowski bridge. If you're bored and brave, or reckless, you can join them.

Have you noticed how pedestrians obey the traffic lights? I have been ticketed for jaywalking; there were three cops to give me the ticket. :)
1jola   
7 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

M-G (just look on pics)

Which pics M-G? When you say everywhere, do you mean everywhere in Holland? Certainly you don't mean Warsaw.
1jola   
7 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

Reminds me of a Japanese scientist who studied women pubic hair patterns which according to him was an idicator of the good qualities of women. Lo and behold, his research showed that women with sparce pubic hairs were the best quality. Oriental women, that is. LOL. Pity I don't remember his name.
1jola   
7 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

Little of topic but let me squeeze this in anyway.

In the recent presidential plane crash I wondered why the chief rabbi of Poland, Micheal Shudrich, was not there. It's a legitimate question since several hundred officers murdered in Katyń were Jewish including the chief rabbi of the Polish armed forces, Rabbi Baruch Sternberg. Rabbi Shudrich was invited to the ceremonies but did not go. I found the answer though as to why.

Since the ceremonies were on Saturday, the rabbi was not able to fly as that would be a violation of the Sabbath. Keeping the holy day holy saved his life.

israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137018
1jola   
7 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

It's not the color; it's what those eyes say to you.
1jola   
7 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

But we are acting like it. We are the luckiest generation in a long, long time. Look, Russians are taking posters of Stalin down and Germany is content with running Europe only instead of the whole world. Things are looking up.

Re blue eyes. Many children are born with blue eyes which turn to green or brown after a few months. Wonder why.
1jola   
6 May 2010
News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [686]

Rzeczpospolita is straight right wing, so however you wanna see it, it is biased.

The alternative in Poland is the anti-Polish, leftist Wyborcza, ever so eager to defend and excuse the communists and their present reincarnation, or transformation, if you prefer. And the constant whinging about antisemitism. Gadzinówka.
1jola   
6 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

Please remember that I mean a very far ancestry. One person living 1000 years ago can have millions of descendants today.

Your 'theory' would have been very useful to show Alfred Rosenberg that most Germans had Jewish ancestry; a great tragedy would have been avoided.

This reminds me of a radio program I listened to a few years ago in which a black American woman, who got all exited about DNA testing, convinced herself that she was related to King David.
1jola   
6 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

Allow me to explain - although it was unusual for a catholic to become a Jew it wasn't as unheard of for a Jew to become a catholic. That's why there's a higher chance for Poles to have Jewish ancestors than for Jews to have Polish ancestors.

Let me explain as well. Jews, over the centuries, never exceeded 10 % of the population and as we understand lived in their own communities and intermarrying with Poles excluded such persons from their own communities. Assimilation was discouraged, but as we know people will fall in love. After the last war the percentage of Jews dropped to 1 or so percent and, as you pointed out, it is even less now. You made quite a leap in your assumptions and upon reflection I think you will see that this statement is a gross exageration:

Practically every Pole has at least one Jewish ancestor

For this to happen, there would have been complete assimilation which we know did not happen.
1jola   
6 May 2010
Love / English Men vs Polish Men [207]

As for what has changed I do not know, is it really necessary to run ahead and open a door?
Are you in need of that much emotional security?

I'm a guy despite the screename so I mainly open the doors. I am used to it, it is not a chore and I don't even notice it. I just grew up that way.

I don't like when someone doesn't say thanks, but I am aware that good manners are disappearing fast. Everywhere.

Oh yeah, there is one exception. Shopping time. Then, I just want to come out alive from the interaction with women resembling fifty-five gallon drums. If you've been to PL, you'd understand.

..............

When I see the number 242, I think of UN Resolution 242 or some of my favorite music from earlier years. Are you a fan?
1jola   
6 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

If you mean before then certainly not majorly Polish. People in the past rarely married outside their religious circles and it was very unusual for a Pole to convert to Judaism.

That is why I wondered why you would think Poles who basically did not intermarry with Jews would have Jewish ancestry. I don't know anything about DNA, so I wondered if the was some science behind your statement.
1jola   
6 May 2010
Love / English Men vs Polish Men [207]

What is all this bull**** about opening doors? Whoever gets there first should open the bloody thing.

Can you outrun your missus to the only bus seat available? There was a time when Englishmen were happy to open doors for women. What has changed?
1jola   
6 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

Practically every Pole has at least one Jewish ancestor

And what ancestry do the Jews have?
1jola   
6 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

he calls for Russians and Russian Jews alike to take responsibility for the "renegades" in both communities who supported a totalitarian and terrorist regime after 1917. At the end of chapter 15, he writes that Jews must answer for the "revolutionary cutthroats" in their ranks just as Russians must repent "for the pogroms, for...merciless arsonist peasants, for...crazed revolutionary soldiers."

Yes, so we agree. Where have you seen the Jews ever

Jews must answer for the "revolutionary cutthroats" in their ranks

. I mean in regards to Poland.

Jews are not singled out, the fact that the Public State Security(MBP, later UB) in the years 45-56 was basicaly run by Jews in Poland. Their methods of repression and murder were much worse than that of Gestapo, and that is what victims say who were tortured by both.
1jola   
6 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

I'm not interested in "proving" anything to you nor doing the work for you, but you also find it strange. Make up your own excusses if you wish. Lack of translators in the world, the book sales would be too large, Solzhenitsyn is dead - why read him? I'm trying to help you out.
1jola   
6 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

It's just a hint, but Solzhenitsyn is widely read and sales would be huge compared to French or German sales. Publishers are usually concerned with things like book sales.
1jola   
6 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

So, why do you think there is no English translation?
1jola   
6 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

Right. I agree that more texts should be translated; this is obvious. Mind you, the archives have opened only recently, and even now there is a concerted effort on the part of the left to supress research and publishing.

Were not alone.

Two Hundred Years Together
Author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Translator not translated (English)
Country Russia
Language Russian
Publication date 2002
ISBN ISBN 978-5969703728

There is a French and German translation (2002, 2003), yet in seven years there is no English translation. I haven't read it, but it must contain facts that don't support the Jewish victim line and proof of Russian antisemitism.

Re: Gross. You should read his very first book which he wrote when he was still Polish. His tune was completely different. Then he cought on that you can make a career writing about Polish antsematism, although he says he has never experienced it himself. His father was saved by a Polish woman during the war. They later married and had little Jan who much, much later turned antisemite hunter.
1jola   
6 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

M-G, if you are interested in Jewish Roots IN Poland, you should expand your reading list beyond charlatans like Jan Gross. His books on post-war communist Poland do not take into account (deliberately) the very visible Jewish role in state sanctioned murder during the Stalinist period. The same period he writes about. He sets out to prove antisemitism for dubious reasons, and people like you are happy to fall for it.

I would suggest a different course for this thread. Try this:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berek_Joselewicz

and perhaps here: ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3302233,00.html
1jola   
6 May 2010
Genealogy / What are common Polish character traits? [425]

Me too, I was convinced my friends wife had Münchausen by proxy the amount of times she had the kid at the docs or hospital for trivial things..but she's just as bad herself..

Where there is social medicine, there is hypochondria. From personal experience I can vouch for Poland and France.
1jola   
6 May 2010
Life / Are foreigners welcome in Poland? [275]

poland is polish, not much else. full of "ironside-type" people.

Finally, but we welcome well behaved guests, any color or creed.
1jola   
4 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

Poland is way more anti semitic than the Netherlands ever were and will be,...

Anti-semitic, you mean some of us Poles have a good grasp on our history and actually know what we are talking about. Very few. But you're wise not to engage us; it is better to call us antisemites and hope that we go away. Just so you don't forget:

WARTIME AND POSTWAR DUTCH ATTITUDES TOWARD THE JEWS: MYTH AND TRUTH

jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=2&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=442&PID=0&IID=1215&TTL=Wartime_and_Postwar_Dutch_Attitudes_Toward_the_Jews:_Myth_and_Truth
1jola   
4 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

I have heard that a lot of Polish food have Jewish origin (OMG!!!)

You mean pierogi come from the Bible Land? Is that what they teach you in Norway?
1jola   
4 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

You really don't have a clue, do you?

Well, I have a clue. I'll even take the time to educate you, if you like.
1jola   
4 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

Dutch people hid 25.000 Jews, 8000 of them were cought, how many were sold by Dutch like Anne Frank? Both France and the Low Countries were extremely anti-semitic, far more so than any eastern country bar Ukraine :))))

The survival rate for Jews was just as good in Amsterdam as it was in Warsaw, and if you have any idea of the conditions at the time, you will see that the Dutch have nothing to brag about.
1jola   
3 May 2010
History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [121]

Nazi Ukraine lets Nazi Russia station its Black Sea fleet on its soil, just like Soviet Russia let Nazi Germany keep its ships in Murmansk during the early stages of WWII, well, till their beautiful relationship was spoiled by Hitler.

Heil Kostia.
1jola   
3 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

Only if you stop defending everything the Poles do

You are childish.

(sometimes I wonder if you yourself know Polish history when it comes to dark sides

I'm actually in the middle of several texts dealing with the dark side of Polish history, and there are Jews as main instruments of terror at the top of the ladder.
1jola   
3 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

That's why I'm asking if antisemitic laws were indeed started by ethnic Poles.

When, son? Which laws? In what period of time? What exactly interest you?

According to him for every bad thing the Poles did, there has to be at least one or two bad thing(s) the Jews did to keep the balance.

And the plastic Jew pops up alerted. Some of your posts lately rival Harry's. Remember when you used to actually post on topic and there was a chance you might begin to understand bits of Polish history?
1jola   
2 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

No, Jews also participated. I hope that fully answers your well thought out and precise question.