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    Kubow, Magdalena

    The Polish review (New York. 1956), 04/2017, Volume: 62, Issue: 1
    Journal Article

    The press has always served as a historical document of tremendous value, reflecting the concerns, opinions, and interpretations of the times. In some current university lectures on the Holocaust, students are taught that there are few reliable ways to gauge the German public's opinion on what was happening within their country. The main source, outside of private materials, is Gestapo reports, which in and of themselves are biased, purposefully tampered with, and unreliable. The same cannot be said when attempting to understand how the Polish population, both inside and outside of Poland, felt regarding what was happening inside Nazi Germany, and eventually in occupied Poland. Unlike major English-language newspapers in North America, such as the New York Times, the Polish-language press did not bury or ignore news from Europe concerning the rise of Nazism and subsequent persecutions, but focused directly on them demonstrating that the news being communicated—and reactions to that news— was very real and not incomprehensible or implausible. The Republika-Górnik was one of America's largest Polish-language weeklies, and one that reported extensively on the European situation regarding fascism and Hitler well before 1933. This article specifically examines how Polish-Jewish relations and the looming war were reflected in this press from 1926–1930.