Polish Jews say anti-Semitic attacks have increased in the months since the country began coming to grips with a World War II-era pogrom in the town of Jedwabne in which Poles massacred their Jewish neighbors. A prominent member of Warsaw’s Jewish community, who declined to give his name, told The Associated Press that he had been the victim of more racial slurs in the past two months than in the past five years.
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