Language:
English
Year of publication:
1987
Titel der Quelle:
Polin; Studies in Polish Jewry
Angaben zur Quelle:
2 (1987) 5-36
Keywords:
Wolf, Lucien,
;
Jews History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Against the background of the situation of the Jews in Poland, describes the activities of Jewish circles in Paris, from the end of 1918 up to the signing of the Versailles Treaty, concerning the emergence of the independent Polish state. Their main negotiator, the British Jewish journalist and historian Lucien Wolf, knew how to restrain the exaggerated demands of American Jewry for total Jewish autonomy and how to modify Polish aspirations. Discusses Wolf's negotiations with the Poles, mainly with Paderewski, whose goal was to obtain guarantees for the Jews which would also be accepted by the National Democrats. He desired equal rights for the Jews in Poland, understanding that this process would counter the tendency toward limiting Polish sovereignty on the part of the Western countries.
Note:
Appeared also in "From 'Shtetl' to Socialism; Studies from 'Polin'", 1993.
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