Language:
English
Year of publication:
1985
Titel der Quelle:
Danzig, between East and West
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1985) 19-35
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1918-1933
;
Antisemitism History 1933-1939
;
Antisemitism History 1918-1939
;
Antisemitism History 20th century
;
Jews History
;
Jews History 1918-1939
;
Jews History 1918-1933
;
Jews History 1933-1939
;
Jews History 20th century
;
Gdańsk (Poland)
;
Paris (France)
Abstract:
Compares responses of the leadership of the Jewish communities in Danzig and Paris to the antisemitism of the 1920s-30s. The greater integration of East European Jews in Danzig helped to maintain unity; Parisian Jewry remained divided until 1943, when the Jewish leadership abandoned its faith in the French liberal tradition as a defender of the Jews. The Danzig leadership, however, recognized early on that their German liberal orientation was a weak protection, and was able to fight antisemitism when possible and to save most of the community by collective emigration in 1938.
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