POLAND: THE MOST UNPLEASANT TRUTH IS A SAFER COMPANION THAN A PLEASANT FALSEHOOD.
The authors of this text, two Israeli historians, probe the background to the keynote speech delivered by Thomas Rose, the US ambassador to Poland, at the conference of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Judges in Warsaw in November 2025. The newly appointed envoy—a Republican polit...
| Publicado en: | Modern Judaism: A Journal of Jewish Ideas & Experience Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 118 - 132 |
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