Language:
English
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Polin; Studies in Polish Jewry
Angaben zur Quelle:
4 (1989) 143-158
Keywords:
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Zionism
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Discusses the concepts of nationalism, xenophobia, and antisemitism in the context of multiethnic interwar Poland, and stresses the need for a larger perspective for discussing Polish-Jewish relations which was only one aspect of a complex situation. Historians must take into account not only the antisemitism of Poles and Ukrainians, but also the anti-Polonism of Ukrainians, anti-Ukrainism of Poles, and many other phenomena caused by the growing tensions and nationalism of the 1930s. Taking the "Jewish question" out of context can generate misleading conclusions. Discusses, also, Zionism seen as Jewish nationalism in the broad sense, and compares it with other forms of nationalism which arose in interwar Poland.
Note:
Appeared also in "From 'Shtetl' to Socialism; Studies from 'Polin'", 1993, and in "Hostages of Modernization", 1993.
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