Language:
French
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Yod; revue des études hébraïques et juives
Angaben zur Quelle:
3 (1996-1997) 55-70
Keywords:
Jews History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Discusses the situation of the Jews during the communist regime in Poland and especially of those Jews who were communists themselves. Explains why part of the Jewish population was particularly attached to the socialist and communist movements before and after the war. The most important reason was that nation-states did not give the Jews full rights, and various projects for forced emigration existed in Poland in the interwar period. However, no more than 8,000 Jews were members of the Communist Party in Poland in 1933 (26% of all its members). Asserts that both the Holocaust experience and their revolutionary engagement (e.g. the "universalism" of communist ideology) led Jewish communists in postwar Poland to a desire to forget their Jewishness. Many of them polonized their names and did not reveal their origin to their children. This complicated psychological situation led sometimes to a feeling of self-contempt among the Jews. Comments that, once more, the integration of Jews in Polish society proved to be impossible.
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