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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 188. Chapters: History of the Jews in Poland, Zuzanna Ginczanka, Harry Warner, Stanislaw Ulam, Menachem Begin, Eric Hobsbawm, Sydor Rey, Rosa Luxemburg, Franciszka Arnsztajnowa, David Ben-Gurion, Billy Wilder, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Herschel Grynszpan, Shimon Peres, Albert Warner, Micha Kalecki, Israel Shahak, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Arthur Szyk, Simon Wiesenthal, Krystyna Skarbek, Leonid Hurwicz, Jerzy Kosinski, Yitzhak Shamir, Marek Edelman, Henryka azowertowna, Zygmunt Bauman, Sam Warner, Dziga Vertov, Richard Pipes, Itche Goldberg, Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, Benoit Mandelbrot, Izhbitza - Radzin (Hasidic dynasty), Eliahu Gat, Antoni Lange, Chaim Perelman, Arthur Rubinstein, Janusz Korczak. Excerpt: The history of the Jews in Poland dates back over a millennium. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Jewish community in the world. Poland was the centre of Jewish culture thanks to a long period of statutory religious tolerance and social autonomy. This ended with the Partitions of Poland, in particular, with the discrimination and persecution of Jews in the Russian Empire. During World War II there was a nearly complete genocidal destruction of the Polish Jewish community by Nazi Germany, during the 1939-1945 German occupation of Poland and the ensuing Holocaust. Since the fall of communism there has been a Jewish revival in Poland, characterized by the annual Jewish Culture Festival, new study programmes at Polish high schools and universities, the work of synagogues such as the Nozyk, and the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. From the founding of the Kingdom of Poland in 1025 through to the early years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth created in 1569, Poland was the most tolerant country in Europe. Known as paradisus Iudaeorum (Latin for "Paradise for the Jews"), it became a shelter...