{"product_id":"crime-and-the-silence-paperback","title":"Crime and the Silence - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnna Bikont\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner \u003c\/b\u003eof the \u003cb\u003eNational Jewish Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e in the\u003cb\u003e Holocaust \u003c\/b\u003ecategory\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA monumental work of nonfiction on a wartime atrocity, its sixty-year denial, and the impact of its truth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJan Gross's hugely controversial \u003ci\u003eNeighbors \u003c\/i\u003ewas a historian's disclosure of the events in the small Polish town of Jedwabne on July 10, 1941, when the citizens rounded up the Jewish population and burned them alive in a barn. The massacre was a shocking secret that had been suppressed for more than sixty years, and it provoked the most important public debate in Poland since 1989. From the outset, Anna Bikont reported on the town, combing through archives and interviewing residents who survived the war period. Her writing became a crucial part of the debate and she herself an actor in a national drama.\u003cbr\u003e Part history, part memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Crime and the Silence\u003c\/i\u003e is the journalist's account of these events: both the story of the massacre told through oral histories of survivors and witnesses, and a portrait of a Polish town coming to terms with its dark past. Including the perspectives of both heroes and perpetrators, Bikont chronicles the sources of the hatred that exploded against Jews and asks what myths grow on hidden memories, what destruction they cause, and what happens to a society that refuses to accept a horrific truth.\u003cbr\u003e A profoundly moving exploration of being Jewish in modern Poland that Julian Barnes called \"one of the most chilling books,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Crime and the Silence\u003c\/i\u003e is a vital contribution to Holocaust history and a fascinating story of a town coming to terms with its dark past.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna Bikont\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist for the \u003ci\u003eGazeta Wyborcza\u003c\/i\u003e, Poland's main newspaper, which she helped found in 1989. For her articles on the crimes in Jedwabne and nearby Radzilów, she was honored with several awards, including the Press Prize for reportage in 2001 and the Polityka Prize for historical writing. In 2011 she received the European Book Prize for the French edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Crime and the Silence\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2008-2009, Bikont was a fellow at the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library. \u003cb\u003eAlissa Valles\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eOrphan Fire \u003c\/i\u003eand the editor and cotranslator of Zbigniew Herbert's \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems 1956-1998 \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCollected Prose 1948-1998\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 560\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 8.7 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 20, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45336599986278,"sku":"9780374536374","price":45.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/UTNrQlNvU2NPL2VCbHdLQ1JmalU5UT09.webp?v=1774612163","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/crime-and-the-silence-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}