The Jew anwers denigrating individually as swindlers, thieves, etc. But I note with surprise that when the subject of co-existence of Jews with the rest of the Polish community begun to be discussed in some depth, everything suddenly became much stiffer and ignorance and mutual intolerance triumphed. In an elegant manner, at the level of intellectual convention, they almost started trading insults. On one side shouts arise that everything that Jews are accused of is a lie and a scandal, that Jews never harmed the Poles in any way, and if they did, this must be understood for the Pole always treated the Jew with such contempt. And then the floodgates open.
Mutual paranoia is back.
Alas, it all ended in a shouting match. Even poor Brandys copped some accusations of anti-Semitism since he was trying to defend the good name of the Poles. And yet there exists a literature, easily accessible, which in a legible manner could convey to the current generation the deep historical nature of the Polish-Jewish confrontation. Liberation in an effort to calm the discussions about Polish anti-Semitism. In that context I said a sentence that I wish someone would at some point say calmly by the Vistula.