'' Golden Harvest or Hearts of Gold ? '' , a 2012 collection of essays co-edited by Chodakiewicz , and a polemic with Gross ' book '' Golden Harvest '' , was heavily criticized by Danusha Goska for anything from not using a spellchecker to " cherry picking " historical anecdotes , as well as for repeatedly attacking scholars on the other side of the debate . David Engel noted that the book " reaffirms the conventional Polish wisdom and impugns the academic integrity of prominent scholars ( not only Gross ) who have questioned it . " Chodakiewicz wrote several books in response to works by Jan T. Gross . His approach to the Holocaust was criticized by Joanna Michlic as an attempt to erase the " dark past " by showing only a " good past " . Other critics have criticized Chodakiewicz for his reluctance to accept Polish responsibility for the Kielce pogrom . Critics take particular issue with Chodakiewicz 's argument that Jewish-born communist partisans ' and functionaries ' killing of Poles during the Soviet occupation " contextualizes " , if not justifies , Polish violence against Jews . Laurence Weinbaum compares Chodakiewicz 's writing to pseudo-scholarly screeds and says that Chodakiewicz believes that scholars of antisemitism in Poland are advancing an " anti-Western " and " anti-American " agenda . In his review of '' Intermarium '' , Dovid Katz writes that Chodakiewicz " is a forceful advocate of a Republican Party-type platform , with ample specific references to the Reagan years ... he is socially conservative — that is to say pro-religion , anti-secularist , anti-gay , anti-left , and anti-liberal . In his writings there is an implicit call for the disenfranchisement of the Russian-speaking minorities in Eastern Europe and the Baltic states ... He is also somewhat fixated with the purported dangers of “ homosexual frolic ” and “ so-called ‘ gay pride ’ parades ” ( both p. 253 ) , “‘ gay liberation ’” ( p. 378 ) , “ radical lifestyles ” ( p. 421 ) , “ gender , queer and other guises ” ( p. 468 ) , “ sexual politics ( including feminism and gay rights ) ” ( p. 528 ) ... Turning to Jewish issues , it is no secret that Chodakiewicz comes to the table with a controversial record that has included disguising Polish nationalism and anti-Jewish sentiment on Poland-related issues as objective historical research . Notorious episodes include his vitriolic attacks on Jan Gross ’s pioneering scholarship and the omniscient search for Jews among the evil Communists . " Katz writes that Chodakiewicz " winds up praising the Ukrainian Nazi groups that actually helped perpetrate the Holocaust " . He contrasts Chodakiewicz ’s work with that of Western scholars like Timothy Snyder ( '' Bloodlands '' , 2012 ) and Alexander Prusin ( '' The Lands Between : Conflict in the East European Borderlands , 1870 – 1992 '' , 2010 ) . " He refers to the book 's final chapter as a " hatchet job against Jewish partisans ... that resorts to a number of abuses of academic structure to mask the genre of nationalist polemic . " Joanna Michlic characterizes Chodakiewicz as one of " the main representatives of the post-1989 historiography characterized by prejudicial views towards Jews and other minorities ... These historians belong to the school of ( ethno ) nationalist history writing in which the themes of martyrdom and victimhood of ethnic Poles vis-a-vis other groups play a key role in shaping their arguments and interpretation " , with Chodakiewicz being the most extreme of the lot
Kielce pogrom
Kielce pogrom
Marek Jan Chodakiewicz