Tikkun Olam: Repairing the World By Faith in the Past

Jan Gross' Neighbors emerged in 2001 Poland to nationwide "ignorance" of and nationalist "indifference" toward its relation of July 10, 1941 Poland's slaughter of 1,600 Jews in Jedwabne. The book was overlooked by the media as another attempt to implicate the Polish people in Nazi stirrings. Many argue now that an unbroken sociotemporal sin lies between the pre- and post-WWII generations, accounting for not only a Polish, but global bout of "inactivity" toward genocide-related thought, working against the triumphs of Israel's reinstallation, and, quite possibly, undoing a striking legacy…