Jews and Meches
"Permeated with the Polish spirit": meches, converts, conversions, baptisms, neophytes. In discussions within the Jewish community, especially during the German occupation, these were never neutral terms. Jewish physician Izrael Milejkowski saw the "error" in the mentality of those who abandoned the faith of their ancestors: meches is a complex of inferiority towards Christians and megalomania towards Jews. Emanuel Ringelblum was equally direct in his judgments. Those who distanced themselves from Jewish […]