Language:
English
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Studia Judaica (Kraków)
Angaben zur Quelle:
13,2 (2010) 311-321
Keywords:
Rola
;
Niwa
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews Periodicals
Abstract:
After the reform of 1862, which granted equal rights to the Jews in the Kingdom of Poland, the main issue that separated the conservative approach to the "Jewish question" from the liberal one was the attitude toward the feasibility of the assimilation of Jews in the country. While the liberals supported assimilation, the conservatives did not believe in it and preached complete separation of Poles from Jews. Examines the two Polish weeklies in their stance toward the Jews: "Rola", which was established in 1883 as an antisemitic periodical; and "Niwa", which began as a liberal paper, but shifted to conservative nationalism. "Niwa" and especially "Rola" developed a specific antisemitic language that served their aim to build a fence between Poles and Jews - not only as a barrier between locals and strangers, but as a wall between humans and non-humans. This language included military or biological metaphors (leeches, ravens, locusts, spiders, etc.), those of disease (ulcer, cancer, gangrene), and those of dirt versus cleanliness.
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