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Jerzy Robert Nowak (born 8 September 1940 in European Cultural Memory Post-89
edited by Conny Mithander, John Sundholm, Adrian Velicu, page 139
Jerzy Robert Nowak (born 8 September 1940 in Terespol
Terespol (; be, Тэрэ́спаль, Teréspaĺ) is a town in eastern Poland on the border with Belarus. It lies on the border river Bug, directly opposite the city of Brest, Belarus, making it a border town. It has 5,794 inhabitants as of ...
) is a Polish historian, and former columnist in right-wing Catholic media outlets including Nasz Dziennik
''Nasz Dziennik'' ("Our Daily") is a Polish-language Roman Catholic daily newspaper published six times a week in Warsaw, Poland. It is connected to the Lux Veritatis Foundation. Its viewpoint has been described as right-wing to far-right (har ...
, Telewizja Trwam
TV Trwam is a Polish TV channel in Toruń, Poland, belonging to the Lux Veritatis Foundation.
Ownership and financing
The station is owned by the Warsaw Province of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer and is financed through donations f ...
, Radio Maryja
Radio Maryja is a religious and political socially conservative Polish radio station. It was founded in Toruń, Poland, on 9 December 1991, by the Redemptorist Tadeusz Rydzyk. The name "Maryja" is a traditional Polish form of the name "Mary" ...
.Törnquist-Plewa, Barbara. "The Jedwabne Killings–A Challenge for Polish Collective Memory." Echoes of the Holocaust. Historical Cultures in Contemporary Europe, Lund (2003).
He worked in Polish Institute of International Affairs
The Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM, pl, Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych) in Warsaw is a Polish think tank which carries out research and training in international relations. In this field, it ranks as one of the most ...
, he was an expert in Hungarian matters, has published a number of books about Hungary. He worked in embassy of Poland in Budapest. He was an activist of Alliance of Democrats (Poland)
The Alliance of Democrats ( pl, Stronnictwo Demokratyczne, SD) is a Polish centrist party. Initially formed in 1937, the party underwent a revival in 2009, when it was joined by liberal politician Paweł Piskorski, formerly a member of Civic ...
. He criticized ''The X-s'', a historical novel by György Spiró
György (George) Spiró (born 4 April 1946 in Budapest) is a dramatist, novelist and essayist who has emerged as one of post-war Hungary's most prominent literary figures. He is a member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts.
Life
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He has been accused of antisemitism
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism.
Antis ...
by various intellectuals as well as by the Polish Club of Catholic Intelligentsia and some Catholic clerics (including Archbishop Józef Życiński). In lectures to Catholic parishes throughout Poland, Nowak as spoken on the "threat of the Jews and masons". In his writings, Nowak has promoted the Judeopolonia
Judeopolonia, also Judeo-Polonia, is an antisemitic conspiracy theory positing future Jewish domination of Poland.Michlic, Joanna Beata (2006). ''Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present'', pp. 48, 55–56. Univers ...
conspiracy theory.
During the debate in Poland on the Polish role in the Jedwabne pogrom
The Jedwabne pogrom was a massacre of Polish Jews in the town of Jedwabne, German-occupied Poland, on 10 July 1941, during World War II and the early stages of the Holocaust. At least 340 men, women and children were murdered, some 300 of whom ...
, Nowak, writing in ''Nasz Dziennik'', dismissed Jan T. Gross as "the usual propaganda to get out of the Polish government money for the crimes committed in Poland by Germans, Soviets and criminals". Nowak argued against any acceptance of guilt by Poles, and expressed his (extreme) view that Jews should ask Poles for forgiveness over their "anti-Polish lies" and other "misdeeds".
He wrote a book in Polish "100 kłamstw J.T. Grossa o żydowskich sąsiadach i Jedwabnem" ("100 lies of J.T. Gross about Jewish neighbors and Jedwabne.")
Following the publication of Gross's Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz, Nowak went on a lecture tour to focusing on what he referred to as Gross's "lies" and wrote aggressive newspaper columns.edited by Conny Mithander, John Sundholm, Adrian Velicu, page 139
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