Language:
German
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Impulse für Europa
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2008) 29-51
Keywords:
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews Cultural assimilation
Abstract:
Argues that Jewish emancipation in Eastern Europe resulted in both social improvement and catastrophes. From the 1880s on, there were frequent pogroms. In Russia and Romania, the Jews were legally discriminated against, and antisemitic popular opinion and press campaigns fed blood libel accusations. Nationalists in Eastern Europe viewed the Jews as a disturbing element in the development of nation states. Discusses conflicting attitudes toward the Jews in post-revolutionary Russia, where many Jews reached positions of commissars and political leaders, but were hated as capitalists, bourgeois, and leaders of the New Economic Policy launced by Lenin in 1927. Discusses how the behavior of various elements of the population in Eastern Europe and the USSR affected the mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust. Also traces reactions to the Holocaust and antisemitic persecution after the war, up until the collapse of communist socialism in the USSR and the people democracies between 1989-91.
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