Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
East European Jewish Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
28,2 (1998-1999) 63-81
Keywords:
Jews Periodicals
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
The revolutionary years 1905-6 marked a major rupture in relations between Poles and Jews in Russian Poland. These relations had deteriorated after the Polish insurrection of 1863, when the Poles were subjected to various administrative restrictions and humiliating measures, but the Jews were not. The influx of Jews from the Pale following the May Laws of 1882 was perceived by the Poles as an attempt to Russify the country with "these Lithuanians." Jewish economic success and the rise of Jewish nationalism exacerbated relations even more. Jews were seen by Poles, even liberals, as a foreign group. After 1906, the mainstream Warsaw press targeted all the Jews, not specific Jewish parties, and regarded plans to assimilate the Jews as unfeasible. The conflict with the Jews reached its peak in 1912, when it became clear that the result of the election to the Duma in Warsaw would depend on the Jewish vote. In that year, the tone of the liberal "Prawda" was no different from that of the oldest antisemitic newspaper "Rola."
DOI:
10.1080/13501679808577881
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