Hearts of Gold or a Golden Harvest?

Publication Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Hearts of Gold or a Golden Harvest? rejects the pop-cultural-cum-post-modernist image of a Polish Christian benefiting from the Holocaust and, instead, recognizes a variety of nuanced attitudes of the gentiles toward the great Jewish tragedy.   {read more}

So Poland Be Polish (Zeby Polska byla polska)

Publication Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011

The work, entitled Zeby Polska byla polska or So Poland Be Polish, is an anthology of the Polish nationalist, anti-Nazi, anti-communist underground press during the years 1939-1950.  {read more}

Expropriated Memory

The War in Spain (1936-1939)

Publication Date: 2010

Zagrabiona Pamiec. Wojna w Hiszpanii 1936-1939 (Expropriated Memory: The War in Spain, 1936-1939), addresses the issue of historical memory and propaganda regarding the conflict. Prof. Chodakiewicz focuses on factual and ideological distortions produced by the Communist spinmeisters persisting into contemporary times.  {read more}

The Massacre in Jedwabne

July 10, 1941: Before, During, After

Publication Date: Wednesday, March 1, 2006

On July 10, 1941, the Jewish inhabitants in the small Polish town of Jedwabne were massacred by German policemen and some Polish townsmen and peasants. Chodakiewicz provides us with a criminal investigation of this mass murder. In this detailed study of a small area in Poland, Chodakiewicz examines the conditions that led to the heinous slaughter of Jedwabne's Jewish population. A dominant interpretation of this event depicts the Germans as the perpetrators of the crime while the Poles looked on. An alternative version suggests that the Germans plotted the crime, while the Poles executed the slaughter. The author argues that these two competing theses are not supported by the available evidence. Despite the limitation of sources, Chodakiewicz emphasizes a comprehensive methodology using all available documents, testimonies, oral recollections, and forensic and other physical evidence to reconstruct the history. In addition, Chodakiewicz provides an alternative interpretation to the dominant paradigms concerning Jewish-Polish relations in general and the mass murder in Jedwabne in particular.  {read more}

Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland, 1939-1947

Publication Date: 2004

Between 1939 and 1947 the county of Janów Lubelski, an agricultural area in central Poland, experienced successive occupations by Nazi Germany (1939-1944) and the Soviet Union (1944-1947). This study analyzes and describes the responses of the inhabitants of the occupied area and hte policies of the ruling powers.  {read more}

My Vision of America

The Most Important Speeches of the 40th President of the United States

Publication Date: April 2004

As President of the United States, Ronald Wilson Reagan continually emphasized the values to which he attributed American greatness. These were, first and foremost, support of political and economic liberty, private initiative, tradition, and patriotism.  {read more}

Spanish Carlism and Polish Nationalism: The Borderlands of Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Publication Date: 2003

After the Holocaust: Polish-Jewish Conflict in the Wake of World War II

Publication Date: 2003

In Western popular discourse there exists an assumption that "Poles killed Jews" during and following the Holocaust. Further, some have even claimed that Jewish deaths in Poland in the wake of the Second World War are attributable to a Polish desire to bring to completion the Nazi plan of extermination.  {read more}

Poland's Transformation: A Work in Progress

Publication Date: 2003

This is a collection of essays on current Polish affairs, co-edited by Dr. Chodakiewicz, who also contributed two scholarly articles.  {read more}

Problems with Shock Therapy

Publication Date: 2002

The anthology was published by Fronda Publishers in Poland in response to Jan Gross's controversial book Neighbors. When faced with serious criticism, Gross and his supporters resorted to the argument that the book's main contribution lay in its "shock value."  {read more}