GREAT POST polishcanuck
Jews resentment towards Poles was something that my parents experienced first hand when they immigrated to the United States in the early 80's. They didn't understand it either but befriended a Jew and they kinda explained to them the ill feelings Jews hold towards Poles.
For two people that are forever linked together and lost so much together, it is quite odd that many Jews like polishcanuck mentioned, hold a bigger grudge towards Poles than Germans....which is RIDICULOUS. You could argue that considering war debts paid back and the U.S.A's forever big brother protection of Jews today, did anyone get it worst in the Second World War than the Poles?
I don't want to get racist here but many stereotypes are around for a reason and the Jews have conflicted with every culture or people they have interacted with.
If anyone else has more background on the matter it would be great to learn more!
sidenote, you can find many interesting articles online but simply searching Poles and Jews.
Here is one I found
With some exceptions among individuals, and with the exception of commercial transactions, Jewish communities in pre-war Poland largely functioned as insular, self-absorbed, elitist, and self-positioned "strangers" in Polish society. The gulf between Polish Christians and Jews was enormous; in pre-Holocaust Poland, for example, the intermarriage rate between Poles and Jews was only one per cent. This ethnic isolation was self-imposed by Jews from the earliest times of their residence in Poland. Most Jews consciously chose not to assimilate into Polish society, many could not even speak Polish, and few had friendly relationships with the non-Jews around them.
"In prewar Poland," notes Wladyslaw Krajewski, a Polish Jew, "... the majority of Jews did not regard themselves as Poles. Growing up for the most part in Jewish environments, they observed only the Jewish customs and religion, spoke only Yiddish at home, and generally spoke Polish poorly." [Krajewski, 96-97] Norman Salsitz describes growing up in a Jewish community in a Polish town and discovering that many Jews did not even know what the Polish flag looked like.
http://library.flawlesslogic.com/poles.htm
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