Language:
English
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Artists and Central-Eastern Europe
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2010) 15-23
Keywords:
Mendelsohn, Ezra
;
Jews Historiography
;
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Zionism
;
Jews Education
Abstract:
A sketch of Jewish life in interwar Poland, dealing, inter alia, with antisemitism in the country. In a sense, experience of antisemitism was an important element in the lives of Polish Jews. Antisemitism began in Poland in the late 19th century, with the rise of the Polish nationalist movement. The revolution of 1905-07 exacerbated it, as did the First World War. However, 1935-39 was the period of the worst attitude toward Jews in their entire history in Poland. This period was marked by an officially proclaimed "economic struggle" against the Jews, a prohibition of ritual slaughter, anti-Jewish agitation, and a number of limitations applied to specific groups of Jews. In the Eastern Borderlands, the Jewish situation was aggravated by ethnic conflict - between Poles on the one hand and Ukrainians and Belorussians on the other hand. Notes that Poland did not adopt any legislation pertaining to all Jews.
Note:
Appeared also in "Shofar" 29,3 (2011) 4-23.
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