Joanna Tokarska-Bakir

[1][2][3] She specializes in blood libel, historical anthropology and in particular violence, and Holocaust ethnography.

[1] In Żydzi u Kolberga, Tokarska-Bakir rejects the view that pre-modern folk antisemitism was benign, asserting that these notions assigned to Jews a "dangerous place" which could lead to destruction at any moment.

Tokarska-Bakir argued that this "common sense" persists to the modern-day with explosions of hatred being latent phenomena.

Tokarska-Bakir's describes the debate as "an explosion of post-traumatic psychosis" in which some historians attempted to maintain Poland's identity as a victim and not as a perpetrator by discrediting the research.

[6] Tokarska-Bakir asserts that empathy is the needed cure to "dispel the stupor" and "impart some critical awareness" in regards to the Jedwabne debate.