Polish Jews we are (Poles) proud of

Polish Jews we are (Poles) proud of

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Ojciec Fryderyka przyjechał do Polski w 1787 w wieku 16 lat w interesach Adama Weydlicha – wielkorządcy Michała Jana Paca i spędził tu resztę swojego życia. Dość szybko związał się ze swoją nową ojczyzną; już w 1794 r. wziął udział w insurekcji kościuszkowskiej i nigdy z Polski nie wyjechał. Nie utrzymywał też już kontaktu z rodziną we Francji. Swoje dzieci wychował na Polaków. Znany był także z nieufności, a wręcz nienawiści do Napoleona

Lem, Baczyński, Petersburski, Kopaliński, Ford, Hoffman, Kiepura, Holland, Polański, Skrzynecki. Lec, Szewińska and many more

If someone lives in Poland, speaks Polish as a first language andconsiders himself a Pole, then I don't give a toss where his ancestorswere from. I said it a hundred times and I will say it again - yournationality is in your heart and in your soul.

exactly my thoughts. cheers

I have heard it said if you removed those of Jewish descent from pre-war Poland's literary and cultural scene between the two world wars, there wouldn't be much Polish culture left.

Hurwicz shared the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson for their work on mechanism design.

Berek Joselewicz (1764-1809) was a Jewish-Polish merchant and a colonel of the Polish Army during the Kościuszko Uprising. Joselewicz commanded the first Jewish military formation in modern history

Georges Charpak (born August 1, 1924) is a Polish-French physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics winner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berek_Joselewicz

He was Polish, i dont give a crap about his genes, that guy was as Polish as the best of us throught history.

In the same way as the work of Wagner was used to promulgate Nazi views, the music of Strauss and of Franz Lehar, composer of The Merry Widow, was closely associated with the vast cultural pageants Hitler staged to shore up his regime. Lehar, like Strauss, was of Jewish descent, although this again was never acknowledged by Hitler, who is believed to have said: 'I decide who is Jewish.'

In the same way as the work of Wagner was used to promulgate Nazi views, the music of Strauss and of Franz Lehar, composer of The Merry Widow, was closely associated with the vast cultural pageants Hitler staged to shore up his regime. Lehar, like Strauss, was of Jewish descent, although this again was never acknowledged by Hitler, who is believed to have said: 'I decide who is Jewish.'

Marek Edelman (born December 31, 1922) is a Polish political and social activist, cardiologist, and last living leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He lives in Łódź.
In the summer of 2007 an Israeli youth group came to Łódź in order to make documentary films with a group of Polish youth. One of the films was made about Marek Edelman, and emphasized the fact that the Israeli youngsters had never heard of Edelman, supposedly because he had been anti-zionist. While the filming, the group met Edelman and interviewed him.

I remember reading that Edelman was often criticized by other Jews for not leaving Poland in 1945 or in 1968.

he should do it...that was the right thing fer the Jews after '45

I remember reading that Edelman was often criticized by other Jews for not leaving Poland in 1945 or in 1968.

In 1942, as a youth leader in the Bund, Edelman was among the founders of the underground Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (Jewish Fighting Organization). In the Warsaw ghetto uprising of April-May 1943

Żydowski Związek Wojskowy (ŻZW, Polish for Jewish Military Union) was an underground resistance organization operating during World War II in the area of the Warsaw Ghetto which fought during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. It was formed primarily of former officers of the Polish Army in late 1939, soon after the start of the German occupation of Poland.[1]

Due to its close ties with the all-national Armia Krajowa (AK), after the war the Communist authorities of Poland suppressed the publication of books and articles on ŻZW, whose role in the uprising in the ghetto was undervalued,[2] as opposed to the Jewish organization Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (Jewish Fighting Organization) with less direct ties to the Polish AK.

The ring that was in the possession of the Jewish underground fighters, was destroyed in the ruins of the Ghetto. Its twin remained in the hands of Henryk Iwanski, the leader of the Polish underground and later brought to the museum in Jerusalem, Israel

Already during the war the influence and the importance of the Żydowski Związek Wojskowy was being downgraded. The surviving commanders of the leftist ŻOB either did not mention the ŻZW's fight in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in their writings at all,[2] or belittled its importance.[7] Also the war-time Soviet propaganda did only briefly mention the fighters as they collided with its aims of presenting the Soviet Union as the only defender of the European Jewry.[8] In addition, except for Dawid Wdowiński none of the high-ranking commanders of the ŻZW survived the war to tell their part of the story and it was not until 1963 that Wdowiński's memoirs[9] were published.

Adam Mickiewicz.

Olbrychski, Holoubek, Fronczewski - just off the top of my head.

However, I would dispute considering anyone of Jewish origin a Jew.
If someone lives in Poland, speaks Polish as a first language and
considers himself a Pole, then I don't give a toss where his ancestors
were from. I said it a hundred times and I will say it again - your
nationality is in your heart and in your soul.

Bruno Schulz was 100% Jewish, killed for that by Germans, but he was writing in Polish.