Language:
English
Year of publication:
2011
Titel der Quelle:
East European Politics and Societies
Angaben zur Quelle:
25,3 (2011) 393-409
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1918-1939
;
Jews Medicine
;
Medical colleges
Abstract:
In the medical colleges of universities in Warsaw, Vilnius, Krakow, and Lvov, in the 1920s-30s, right-wing Christian students called upon the administrations not to allow Jews to dissect Christian corpses (stemming from the antisemitic concept of the impurity of Jews) and demanded that Jewish students provide a regular supply of Jewish corpses for themselves to dissect, in accordance with the percentage of Jews amongst the medical students. This corresponded with the more general call of the Right in Poland to remove Jews from the free professions. The Jews could not comply because Jewish law forbids the dissection of corpses.
Note:
This issue of the journal was also published as "The Holocaust in Occupied Poland; New Findings and New Interpretations", edited by Jan T. Gross (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012).
DOI:
10.1177/0888325411398913
URL:
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