FEW subjects arouse more pain and controversy than anti-semitism, real, imagined, past and present in the "ex-Communist" region (I would in this context prefer Timothy Snyder's term "Bloodlands").

I have just (hat-tip Kamil Tchorek) been sent a link to this masterly essay by Stanislaw Krajewski, in the online Jewish magazine Covenant. We normally use this blog to publish up-to-the-minute stuff, and this article is actually four years old, but we won't make a habit of it. Here are the ten theses he examines. If you are as gripped by the subject as I am, you will want to read the whole thing. Comments welcome, but will be strictly policed. Trolls, nutters and timewasters should head elsewhere. I would be particularly grateful for links of any more recent work on the same lines.