History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]


Syria's potential is dependent on Iran. They are a client state. According to newspapers we bombed their nuclear facility before it became operable.

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]

What is the point of this discussion?

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]


I've reread some of my posts to see if I've been paranoid. Couldn't find anything. Would you be mixing me up with Harry or would you be lumping me with whatever comments you heard from other Jews? I agree with the second part of your post, that Jewish life in poland is now having a period of rebirth and I'm very happy about that.


You obviously wrote this on an empty stomach. Go eat something.
That you should say this to me is surprising since I did go to Warsaw and many other places in Poland, and spoke to people in towns and villages and visited sites that show the "many-layered pasta bake that was the Polish-Jewish relationship over the centuries" that you referred to. It gave me an appetite for more.

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]


That was Yitzchak Shamir, who probably said it more than 20 years ago. I don't think that one statement from 20 years ago should be brought up over and over again as if it's an official policy of Israel. (In his defense, he was born and grew up in Poland so who am I to tell him he's wrong. He spoke from his own experience, and you must admit that Poland in the 1920s-30s was quite hostile to Jews.) On the other hand, I admit that many Jews assume that Poles hate Jews without looking into it and without considering that this generalization insults many Poles.


I read israeli newspapers every day and I have never come across a comment like that.


Not a bad idea.
My interest in this forum is more to see how today's Poles relate to Israel, considering our long history together – not to talk about what happened in the past.

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]

If only you people would be indifferent to jews, this would be a better world, (and this would be a better forum.)

Genealogy / Looking for a Polish Jew "Nina" saved in the war [10]

There's a radio show in Israel, where people call or write in to look for missing relatives from the Shoah or from wars. You can write to them by email at this address: mador2@gmail

Their fax number is: +972-2-5313315

Let me know what they answer you.

Food / Do you call it kiszka or kaszanka? [55]

Just for general knowledge: Jews think kishka is a Jewish food. (I had no idea that Poles eat it.) But Jewish kishka is different because we don't eat blood. Our kishka is intestine (or a manmade substitute) stuffed with chopped meat, potato and fat. It's usually cooked together with Tsholent, which is a stew made of potatoes, chunks of meat, beans, barley, beef bones, and when we're lucky... kishka.

History / What Was Happening in Poland around 1905? [73]


And emphysema was a Jewish invention? I thought we just created the bubonic plague.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4501]


No it doesn't. It just looks a bit like "Haifa" but it's not related.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4501]


That's really interesting! I have two acquaintances (both Jews) with those names. One, Lopata, is a lawyer in New York, and Wrubel (which I assume comes from Wróbel) is a teacher and a rabbi in Israel. I guess their ancestors lived in small villages.

Genealogy / Polish surname Gil. My ancestors were from the town of Widelka. [74]


Not quite right. Most Jews expelled from Spain settled in Mediterranean countries like Turkey, Italy and North Africa. Some, but not many, did go to Poland, to Zamość in particular. IL Peretz, the author, was a descendent of Spanish Jews.

But the name Gil might have a Jewish connection anyway. Gil is a relatively common name in Israel. In Hebrew it means "joy". On the other hand, it's not particularly common among Jews from Poland. So you should probably go with one of the other theories.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4501]


So Kaizerski is either a scion of the hassidic Twerskys or he is eating crunchy pork. Hmmm...

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4501]


There is a town in Ukraine called Skwyra, which is pronounced "Skver" in Yiddish. Maybe your family was from there. It was the seat of a well-known hassidic dynasty, the Twersky family. They relocated to New York State after the war and established a town called New Square. Here's a link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skvyra

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]




I notice that no matter what I say and explain, there are always clowns among you who keep spouting nonsense slogans that are based on fantasies, using made-up terminology like "Judaists" as opposed to the evil Zionists, and equating Israelis with Nazis. Do you just copy and paste this stuff from some website?

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]


I don't know the specific incident you're talking about, but it was probably Wagner and not Bach. Wagner was adopted by the Nazis as the musical inspiration of their ideology, and they played it in some of the death camps as background music, and also at nazi rallies. That's why the sensitivity. The incident was probably in Israel and not in Europe. Jews have a right to protest an Israeli festival playing Wagner.


True. Not every victim was a Jew. But every Jew was a victim.

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]


1. Racism has nothing to do with this conflict. We Jews and Arabs are of the same race. Most israelis have middle-eastern backgrounds and a racially indistinguishable from arabs. There are Arabs whiter than a Pole and Jews darker than Obama.

2. Since when is the idea of a nation state based on racial hatred? Poland is about 95% ethnic Poles and Israel is about 80% jewish. So does that mean Poland needs recognize "the folly of racism" too?

Every nation is allowed to have their own country, but when Jews do it's called "racism". How do you figure that?

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4501]

Doing a simple google of the name I see a lot of instances where its a woman's first name. So my guess is that the name Szejwa (pronounced "Sheiva"?) is a shortened version of the name Bas-sheiva which is the Ashkenazi pronunciation of the biblical name Bathsheba. I never heard of it as a Jewish family name. But many family names come from first names.

History / History of Poland in 10 minutes. Really worth seeing! [134]


I assume you're referring to things that occured in the Bible more than 3000 years ago. Whatever we did then I can't deny or comment about. But I don't see where we've taken pride in that. Where do you see that?

History / History of Poland in 10 minutes. Really worth seeing! [134]


Yes. All we care about is money. Maybe the holocaust was all a jewish idea. What a genius theory you came up with. Go crawl back under a rock.

History / History of Poland in 10 minutes. Really worth seeing! [134]

Nice little film. I'm no scholar of Polish history, but wasn't there a cossack invasion in 1648? What about the Swedish invasion after that? Is it my imagination or was there a Warsaw ghetto uprising? And what about the Polish uprising after that? Was the holocaust not part of Polish history?