PolakwKanadzie: What a thread, let me just say that there is definitely a lot of anymosity towards Jews. I come from a family of strong anti-semitic Poles. I recall one time a few years ago walking past a newly-opened Jewish restaurant in Warsaw, and asking my grandmother about this pretty enticing restaurant. "Pojebani Zydzie" and she spit into the ground with rage, that, quite frankly, I have never witnessed in anyone before.
Maybe he was reacting to what bad Jews have done and said about Polish people?
There is good and bad in all people. Rest assure there have been many bad Jews that have slandered Polish people. This despite the fact Jews CHOSE to LIVE in Poland for over a THOUSAND YEARS because Poland gave them more freedom then any other country. The Polish people ALLOWED and GAVE PERMISSION TO JEWS to OPEN THIS RESTAURANT. So doesn't that count for anything? Or do we only put a microscope on all the bad things Polish people say or do which anti-Polish trolls always do on this forum?
Do you think maybe your "anti-semitic family" are "anti-semitic" because of these kind of bad Jews?
Many Left-wing Jewish Americans in the past have slandered Polish people here in the US in the mass media and they get away with it. Can you imagine what would happen if it was the other way around?
Maybe your grandmother was reacting to those anti-Polish slurs by Jews?
Jewish American Seth Meyers of the anti-Polish TV Network NBC-TV, made an anti-Polish slur in the mass media not long ago. But hey since he's Jewish I guess that's OK LOL
Maybe your family, Poles and other Central and East European nations have negative things to say about Jews because of these kind of bad Jews?
Google the article "Stalin's Jews" from the ynet Israeli newspaper.
Ask yourself this question. Why don't Jewish leaders ever openly give credit to Poland for giving MOST OF THE WORLD's Jews refuge for over ONE THOUSAND YEARS, which no other country did?
Why don't they talk about what the great rabbi Moses Isserles said about Poland that: "If it were NOT for Poland the existence of the tribe of Israel would have been UNBEARABLE"Why do so many Jews take for granted all the good Poland did for Jews?
Poland did the most important thing you can do for other human beings. It gave the Jews a PLACE TO LIVE in relative freedom for ONE THOUSAND YEARS. If this was not true, Jews would have to be insane to have CHOSE Poland to live in for this LONG a time.
PolakwKanadzie: I also recently found out her maiden name was Paryz. My father has black, curly hair, which is very unusual for a pole. My other grandmother, I suspect, is, too, Jewish. Both her parents were executed in the holocaust, and she was adopted as a small child. She's a "Catholic". Although she never goes to Church and doesn't celebrate Christmas. One of her ex-husbands' had the surname of Eiden, and was a pharmacist. She has black curly hair and is under 5 feet tall. She doesn't look Polish-- my mother said she's "Mongol". I called bull**** on that a long time ago-- PhD in Chemistry, and she happened to receive a "settlement" from the German government due to the war. I've never heard of non-Jews receiving **** all from the German government. I wasn't told much else. Her family was very wealthy from Lublin, which I have discovered recently was ~50% Jewish. She also coincidentally emigrated from Poland to Germany in the late 60's/early 70's, and has never returned since (right about the time the communists kicked out the remaining Jews). Nobody knows anything about my grandmother. The closest I've got was confronting my mother, who claimed I was full of **** and that indeed her family sheltered Jews. My mother also had me very young-- at age 18-- and gave me the middle name Beniamin, which is also a Jewish name. I'm quite sure my grandmother chose my middle name. The fact is a very, very high percentage of Polish people have Jewish roots. It is bloody obvious, as hard as people may try to deny. And, I say, so what? It's interesting, but it doesn't really change much. Warsaw was nearly 40% Jewish. Lublin 50%, etc etc etc. One of my good friends, who hated Jews, was told by his grandmother recently that he's a Jew. He looks completely Polish. Sigh. I am disgusted that so many Poles hate Jews. It is a very sad state of affairs. Poland has always been a tolerant nation, a model for democracy for over a 1,000 years. If you're Polish and hate Jews, I say there is a >50% chance that you have a Jewish ancestor somewhere in your family tree.
But what if you just hate THOSE Bad Jews who have done and said bad things about Poland and other countries?
But you may be right there may be a certain amount of Poles who have some Jewish blood in them just like there are many Jews who have some Polish Christian blood in them.
I have been told by my family members that I could very well have some Jewish blood in me. That's OK with me. But that wouldn't make me feel anymore or less about a particular issue.
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