Reply To: Commemoration of the 20th of Sivan

RE, you have it backwards. The rich land owners were the Cossacks’ targets, not their allies! The Jews were targeted because we worked for the rich landowners. Remember that Poland before the 20th century Poland had a solid 700-year history of being friendly to the Jews, with very little if any antisemitism. We called it פה לין, “here we can spend the night”. All that changed somewhere around 1900, I don’t really understand why. The Poles turned from friends of the Jews to vicious enemies.