Anti-semitism in Poland: survey results and a qualitative study of Catholic communities

Gives the results of different surveys of various kinds of anti-Semitism in Poland, including the authors’ own, and discusses the findings of their qualitative study – focus group interviews with members of three different Catholic communities from three different cities. The qualitative study confirmed the hypothesis that imagined and stereotypical rather than real Jews are the objects of modern anti-Semitism in Poland, while real historical and stereotypically perceived Jews are the objects of its religious and post-Holocaust variants.