The rabid response to Tokarczuk’s measured call to scrutinize Poland’s history and acknowledge its complicity in atrocities is unsurprising, given the alarming recent resurgence of the Polish far right. Yet we committed horrendous acts as colonizers, as a national majority that suppressed the minority, as slave-owners and as the murderers of Jews.
We have come up with this history of Poland as an open, tolerant country, as a country uncontaminated by any issues with its minorities. When Jennifer Croft, one of Tokarczuk’s English translators, went searching for the source of this outrage, she found it in these remarks by Tokarczuk: In 2015, after receiving the Nike Award for her most recent novel, The Books of Jacob, the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk gave a televised interview that earned her a barrage of hate mail, including death threats.
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