2007 book 151

Jan T. Gross' Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Yet another book for the Jewish literature discussion group, and yet another that I feel was a poor choice (not least of all b/c it's non-fiction, and not literature!!!!). Anyway, it's a depressing read about how a Polish community killed their 1600 Jewish neighbors in 1941. Gross does little to breathe life into this event; he's more interested in its historiographical context. However, I really don't know where he's coming from--he makes all these weird generalizations about how historians blame the Germans for everything, which they don't. We've all known for ages that local communities were involved in the genocide. Anyway, at least this book was short.

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