Sam Rubin is a Fulbright Research Fellow based in Warsaw, Poland.
Sam Rubin
By Sam Rubin
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Opinion I Suffered Anti-Semitism In Poland. Why Won’t Netanyahu Condemn It?
The Israeli Foreign Ministry held its sixth annual Global Forum for Combatting Anti-Semitism this week in Jerusalem. As part of the event, Natan Sharansky, the Soviet refusenik turned Israeli politician, made a bold claim against a growing problem. “There are those who would want to make common cause with far-right, racist parties in Europe because…
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Opinion Poland’s Holocaust Bill Is Part Of A Right Wing Nationalist Agenda
The bus from Warsaw to Rzeszów, Poland, breaks in Kielce. A small city in southwestern Poland, over 50 Jews were killed in Kielce by their Polish neighbors after returning from concentration camps in 1946. I found myself in Kielce en route to a Holocaust Commemoration week in the Podkarpackie Voidodeship, a mostly rural, deeply conservative…
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Community WATCH: Does Anti-Semitism Still Exist In Poland?
On November 11th, 60,000 protesters commemorated Polish Independence Day in a scene reminiscent of Charlottesville. As I later wrote in the Forward, a smaller contingency marched down my street, a part of the former Warsaw Jewish Ghetto. The march was organized in part by two self-proclaimed “radical nationalist” groups who take their name from anti-Semitic…
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Opinion I Hid From Neo-Nazis In Poland. But They Found Me Online
On November 11th, 60,000 protesters assembled in Warsaw to commemorate Polish Independence Day. The march was organized in part by two self-described “radical nationalist” youth movements, both of which draw their names from anti-Semitic leagues of the 1920’s and 30’s. The protest featured torches, chants of “Sieg Heil” and “Ku Klux Klan,” and banners reading…
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Opinion I Hid In My Bathroom From Anti-Semitic Marchers in Poland — In 2017
I came to Warsaw because I didn’t believe what I’d been told about anti-Semitism. Growing up as a Jew in New York, I often felt bombarded by elders, rabbis, and teachers who insisted that anti-Semitism remained a present force in today’s world. I was skeptical. Pogrom and Holocaust narratives spoke to an utterly different Jewish…
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