Language:
English
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
European Journal of Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
2,2 (2009) 269-282
Keywords:
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Based on a paper delivered at the 8th Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies, held in Moscow in July 2006. States that World War I caused a deterioration in relations between Jews and Poles in the former Russian part of Poland. Defeats of the Russian Army in 1914-15 led to rumors of Jewish spying and sabotage, and to the first wartime anti-Jewish outbursts. The German-Austrian occupation further worsened these relations, due to the occupiers' use of Jews as agents in exploiting the Kingdom, growing economic tensions, and the rise of nationalism among both Poles and Jews. Notes that the relative liberalism of the occupiers - the free elections, activities of self-government, and emergence of the Polish autonomous institutions - created new possibilities for Polish-Jewish cooperation, but also new areas of conflict. The Russian revolution and the Brest-Litovsk Treaty heightened the ethnic conflict to a peak, and pogroms broke out in fall 1918.
DOI:
10.1163/187247109X454440
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