Sprache:
Polnisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
BŻIH
Angaben zur Quelle:
180 (1996) 59-77
Schlagwort(e):
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews
Kurzfassung:
Attempts to explain the anti-Jewish disturbances in the region of Rzeszów after the fall of the Habsburg monarchy and the founding of the Polish state. Peasants hoped that their situation would be improved; the Polish and Jewish proprietors and arendars were viewed as their enemies. Because the expected reform of land division did not occur, pogroms broke out on Easter (21 April) 1919 and continued until May 12th. The Cabinet appointed a special commission to check the events. Pp. 61-76 contain the report of this commission (signed on 31 May 1919). The report describes the disturbances, analyzes their causes, and points to those responsible. It states that the disturbances could have been directed by elements interested in anarchy in order to later bring in Bolshevik rule. Antisemitism was considered to be the most important cause of the disturbances, but the explanation of this phenomenon, according to Tomaszewski, is based on existing stereotypes of the Jews (e.g. their wealth, their hostility to the Polish state).
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