נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>Fascinating little bio of this Jewish physicist.</p><p>"In March 1968, police broke up a demonstration.The <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Communist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Communist</span></a> regime responded to the protests with an <a href="https://babka.social/tags/antisemitic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitic</span></a> campaign, calling <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> in high positions <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Zionists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zionists</span></a> and enemies of Poles to blame for the government’s failures in economic and social policy, and calling for “Zionists to be sent to Zion.”</p><p>Wladyslaw Gomulka, First Secretary of the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Polish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Polish</span></a> United Labor Party, called them a “fifth column.” 8,300 people were expelled from the Communist Party – almost all of them Jews. <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> emigration from <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Poland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poland</span></a> began. Infeld died in <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Warsaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Warsaw</span></a> on January 15, 1968. Two months after his death, a campaign of state <a href="https://babka.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a> began. It turned out that the Polish homeland did not require the love of Jews."</p><p><a href="https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2025/05/26/jewish-biography-leopold-infeld-physicist-who-worked-with-einstein/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sdjewishworld.com/2025/05/26/j</span><span class="invisible">ewish-biography-leopold-infeld-physicist-who-worked-with-einstein/</span></a></p>