Czas ambasadora

A collection of interviews given by Shevah Weiss in Poland for various Polish newspapers and journals during his stay there as the Israeli ambassador in 2001-2004. Weiss is a Holocaust survivor from Boryslaw (now in Ukraine), and he was saved as a child by Poles and Ukrainians. The interviews deal with Polish-Jewish relations, Holocaust memory, his own and his family's fate during the Holocaust, antisemitism in Poland, and relations between Poland and Israel, as well as with Israel's relations with Palestinians and Arab states. Concludes with a presentation of speeches made by Weiss at various official occasions and commemorations, as well as articles about him written by Polish journalists which underline the importance of his activities in the improvement of relations between Poles and Israelis. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)