Language:
English
Year of publication:
1986
Titel der Quelle:
The Jews in Poland
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1986) 130-139
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews History 1918-1939
Abstract:
States that most Jewish historians depict interwar Poland as an antisemitic country. Recently, Jewish and Polish historians (Marcus, Davies, Bartoszewski, Tomaszewski) have argued that Poland was not so antisemitic, that the "Jewish problem" was caused by overall poverty and a Jewish demographic explosion, that Jewish life was creative and vibrant, or that antisemitism was not endemic to Poland but was imported from Russia and Ukraine. Argues that the "Jewish problem" was not just a factor of economic and social conditions, but was actually a matter of state policy, which was based on the desire to establish a purely Polish state without Jews. It is true that Polish Jews in the 1930s were better off than the Jews in Germany or the USSR, they enjoyed cultural and civic freedom, but extreme Polish nationalism and antisemitism did exist. That policy increased Jewish nationalism which contributed to the creation of the Jewish State.
Note:
In Hebrew:
,
"מאסף - לחקר תנועת העבודה הציונית והסוציאליזם" יח (תשמח) 171-178
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