Following last year’s squabble over ritual slaughter, this year we’ve been busy quarreling about the monument to the Righteous Among the Nations. As was the case earlier, this quarrel also failed to evolve into a serious debate on either the national level or within the Jewish community itself. We are not skilled in handling…

  MAGDALENA WÓJCIK: WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO BE JEWISH UNDER COMMUNISM? Konstanty Gebert: The answer to this could be an entire series of seminars, because it all depends: what kind of a Jew, in what year, and where. However, generally speaking, it was common knowledge that being Jewish was not a good idea. The…