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John Connelly

John Connelly teaches the history of East Central Europe at the University of California, Berkeley. He is writing a book about racism and its opponents in the Roman Catholic Church.

From the London Review dated 24 June 2004

Those Streets Over There

  • Rising ’44: ‘The Battle for Warsaw’ by Norman Davies

“Rather than uncover history, survivors shield memory. They do so with the unique self-righteousness of those who have emerged safely from the rubble, leaving comrades behind. Like the now dwindling generation of AK fighters, Davies is incapable of imagining their sacrifice to have been in vain. Their self-righteousness has become his; their rejection of persistent questions about Polish anti-semitism explains his impatient refusal to look squarely at the ‘black pages’ of Polish history.” [ read more . . . ]

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