Neighbors

""National Book Award Finalist"" ""Selected Entry for the National Book Critics Circle Award"" ""Compact, sharp and withering. . . . A book to be read, a book to be reckoned with. . . . Like an oral tale transcribed by a folklorist, it has the ring of the eternal to it. My tale is simple and horrible, it seems to say; listen to it and remember it and pass it along. Hatred like this runs deep in human nature and is ever ready to erupt again. Be warned.""---Michael Frank, Los Angeles Times ""An important contribution to the literature of human bestiality unleashed by war. . . . [A] fine, careful book about the awful massacre in Jebwabne.""---Steven Erlanger, New York Times Book Review ""Astonishing. . . . The title, Neighbors, is an ice dagger to the heart.""---George F. Will, Newsweek ""Compelling and immediate.""---Linda Matchan, Boston Globe ""Nothing can make up for the horror. But if the screams of those burning alive at Jedwabne are heard at last, they may not have been completely in vain.""---George Steiner, The Observer ""Powerful. . . . Extraordinary.""---Jaroslav Anders, New Republic ""Horrifying and thoughtful.""---István Deák, New York Review of Books ""Neighbors strikes squarely at Poland's accepted historical narrative.""---John Reed, Financial Times ""[A] scrupulously documented study.""---Abraham Brumberg, Times Literary Supplement ""Neighbors tells a compelling story admirably. It should be widely read and discussed, for the complex, unsettling issues it raises still need to be fully explored.""---Alvin H. Rosenfeld, New Leader ""[Gross] is possessed of the key . . . virtues: moral energy, commitment to accuracy, and the maintenance of a continuing open dialogue between historian, sources, and reader.""---Inga Clendinnen, London Review of Books ""Compelling. . . . Gross’s dispassionate book is the most comprehensive effort to uncover the stark truth about Jedwabne.""---Robert S. Wistrich, Commentary