Does 'Polish Antisemitism' Exist?: Research in Poland and Ukraine, 1992 and 2002

IN 1992 I led a team from the Institute of Sociology at Warsaw University which sought to analyse Polish attitudes to Jews. One thousand and eleven Poles over the age of 18 were surveyed by the Social Research Workshop in Sopot. This was repeated in 2002 with 1,098 respondents, whilst another survey was conducted in 2003 by Sotsioinform of 1,000 Ukrainians. A fourth survey was conducted by a team from the Workshop on the Theory of Social Change in 2012 of 1,200 Poles.1 This chapter summarizes the results of the first three surveys in English, in preparation for the publication of the results of the 2012 survey in a forthcoming volume of Polin.