Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2011
Titel der Quelle:
זמנים; רבעון להיסטוריה
Angaben zur Quelle:
116 (2011) 90-101
Keywords:
Jews History 1945-
;
Six Day War, 1967
;
Anti-Zionism
;
Poland Foreign relations
;
Israel Foreign relations
Abstract:
In June 1967 Polish Communist Party leader Władysław Gomułka launched an antisemitic campaign, in which Jews were branded "Zionists" and enemies of the state. Post-communist Polish historians claim that the campaign was carried out in order to distract Poles who were complaining about declining economic conditions, censorship, and the lack of basic freedoms, culminating in the student uprising in March 1968. However, Plocker argues that the campaign was simply due to the antisemitism of Polish authorities and their belief in an international Jewish conspiracy to weaken the state, since the Poles were seen as collaborators in the Holocaust. During and after the Israeli Six-Day War, most Polish Jews supported Israel, against communist policy, and were seen as traitors. After Gomułka's speech on 19 June, in which he called the Jews a "fifth column" and suggested that they emigrate, there was an anti-Zionist campaign in the press, and thousands of Jews were expelled from the Party and lost their jobs. Unlike in the USSR, Polish authorities encouraged the ca. 25,000 Jews remaining in Poland to emigrate, and most of them did.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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