The Antidefamation League’s Leftward Slide Hasn’t Protected It from the Condemnation of Progressives
Liberal groups have the most to fear from cancel culture.
August 20, 2020
The miracle on the Vistula and the internment of Jewish soldiers.
On August 16, 1920, the Red Army stood just outside Warsaw, ready to take the city, hoping that thereafter it could advance on Berlin and perhaps even Paris. But in one of the great military reversals of modern history—the so-called miracle on the Vistula—the Polish leader Jozef Pilsudski achieved a dramatic victory against the Soviets, after which his forces succeeded in pushing them out of Poland and parts of what is now Ukraine and Belarus. He thus saved the world’s second-largest Jewish community, numbering over 300,000 souls, from Soviet repression. But, writes Joshua D. Zimmerman, this was hardly a great moment for Polish Jewry:
Liberal groups have the most to fear from cancel culture.
Ankara is dedicated to keeping its neighbors from enjoying fossil-fuel-funded prosperity.
Even after history has proved him wrong.
The miracle on the Vistula and the internment of Jewish soldiers.
Many stereotypes and little data.
On August 16, 1920, the Red Army stood just outside Warsaw, ready to take the city, hoping that thereafter it could advance on Berlin and perhaps even Paris. But in one of the great military reversals of modern history—the so-called miracle on the Vistula—the Polish leader Jozef Pilsudski achieved a dramatic victory against the Soviets, after which his forces succeeded in pushing them out of Poland and parts of what is now Ukraine and Belarus. He thus saved the world’s second-largest Jewish community, numbering over 300,000 souls, from Soviet repression. But, writes Joshua D. Zimmerman, this was hardly a great moment for Polish Jewry:
Unlock the most serious Jewish, Zionist, and American thinking.
Subscribe Now