The Jewish Quarterly

The Jewish Quarterly has cultivated literary journalism of the highest standard for almost 70 years. It is an independent publication that explores Jewish issues, and issues of humanity from a Jewish perspective.

The Jewish Quarterly is published four times a year – in February, May, August and November. Each issue features a major political or cultural theme, investigated in long-form essays by prominent voices from around the world. JQ’s mission is not to advocate, but to investigate complex and pressing matters of politics, religion, history and culture, and to do so in depth.

Founded in 1953 by Jacob Sonntag, JQ’s new editor is Jonathan Pearlman. The Jewish Quarterly is published out of Australia and is distributed and accessible worldwide.

This issue of The Jewish Quarterly explores the failure of modern Poland to reckon with the nation's role in the Holocaust.

In this ground-breaking essay, Jan Grabowski, a world-renowned Holocaust historian, examines how the government, museums, schools and state institutions became complicit in delivering a message of Polish national innocence during the Holocaust. He recounts his own experience as the victim of smears and a notorious lawsuit for questioning the complicity of Poles in the destruction of the country's Jews, and examines the far-reaching consequences of Poland's historical distortions, which have been repeated and replicated worldwide to challenge the truth of the Holocaust.

Jan Grabowski is a professor of history at the University of Ottawa. His books include Rescue for Money and Hunt for the Jews, winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize. His most recent book is On Duty: The Role of the Polish Blue and Criminal Police in the Holocaust. He and co-editor Barbara Engelking were sued in Poland for their book, Night Without End, which included their research into Polish collaboration with the Nazis.