Originally published 2018 in Polish by Wydawnictwo Czarna Owca under the title Pod klątwą: Społeczny portret pogromu kieleckiego. English-language translation copyright © 2023 by Cornell University.

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

First published 2023 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Tokarska-Bakir, Joanna, author. | Wampuszyc, Ewa, translator.

Title: Cursed : a social portrait of the Kielce pogrom / Joanna Tokarska-Bakir ; translated by Ewa Wampuszyc.

Other titles: Pod klątwą. English | Social portrait of the Kielce pogrom

Identifiers: LCCN 2023021831 (print) | LCCN 2023021832 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501771484 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501771507 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501771491 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Jews—Poland—Kielce—History—20th century. | Pogroms—Poland—Kielce—History—20th century. | Jews—Persecutions—Poland—Kielce—History—20th century. | Antisemitism—Poland—Kielce. | Trials (Murder)—Poland—Kielce—Sources. | Trials (Hate crimes)—Poland—Kielce—Sources. | Kielce (Poland)—Ethnic relations. | Kielce (Poland)—Biography.

Classification: LCC DS134.66.K54 T6613 2023 (print) | LCC DS134.66.K54 (ebook) | DDC 943.8/45004924—dc23/eng/20230517

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023021831

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023021832

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center’s mission is to ensure the long-term growth and vitality of Holocaust Studies. To do that, it is essential to provide opportunities for new generations of scholars. The vitality and the integrity of Holocaust Studies requires openness, independence, and free inquiry so that new ideas are generated and tested through peer review and public debate. The opinions of scholars expressed before, during the course of, or after their activities with the Mandel Center do not represent and are not endorsed by the Museum or its Mandel Center.

Cover image: Polish children along the route of the funeral cortege, July 8, 1946 (Julia Pirotte), AŻIH/Jewish Historical Institute Warsaw