Judye Glazer & Leslie Cady
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Wishing all our friends
and customers a
HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR
WISH YOU A HAPPY AND
HEALTHY NEW YEAR
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monly thought. He contends
that the Catholic church was
not as influential in the coun-
tryside as in the cities of
Poland. Intellectuals of social
democratic leanings were
characteristically anti-
Semitic, Dr. Bartoszewski
said.
"A Jew was better off deal-
ing with a peasant than an in-
tellectual or a bishop," he
suggested.
Peasants maintained rea-
sonable relations with local
Jews, "our" Jews. Yet they
ascribed mythical powers to
Jews elsewhere. "Our" Jews
could be good, normal and
familiar at the same time that
Jews elsewhere were regarded
as both subhuman and
superhuman.
Dr. Bartoszewski intro-
duced the Polish terms "svi"
and "opsvi" ("native" and
"stranger") to explain this
phenomenon, which spread
beyond peasant-Jewish rela-
tions to a general fear and
distrust of all strangers in the
Polish countryside.
On the one hand, the peas-
ant cast the unknown Jew in
the role of the devil. (A saying
that "Jews are lucky because
the devil provides for them,"
was spoken "almost admir-
ingly, according to Dr. Bar-
toszewski.) On the other,
legend had it that marital in-
fidelity was nonexistent
among Jews. And peasants
had a high opinion of the
powers of Jewish religious
representatives, whose graves
are tended by peasants to this
day.
The Jew's view of the peas-
ant was equally ambiguous.
While the peasant looked
down on trade but depended
on the Jewish trader, the Jew
regarded the peasant as
primitive, violent and
drunken, but also as basical-
ly open and honest.
"The reality of everyday
relations was better than has
been thought," Dr. Barto-
szewski believes. Yet he cau-
tioned against the tendency
in post-Holocaust reports by
non-Jewish reporters to pre-
sent relations as better than
they were. A concurrent
danger is to view all history
through the tragic Holocaust
lens and perhaps distort the
extent of pre-Holocaust
anti-Semitism.
Dr. Bartoszewski is about
to begin a major study of in-
termarriage among Jews and
Poles, which was strongly
discouraged on both sides but
certainly existed, he said. ❑
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