Language:
English
Year of publication:
1985
Titel der Quelle:
World Congress of Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
9,B, vol.3 (1985) 17-20
Keywords:
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Jews Cultural assimilation
Abstract:
Assimilation, accepted by many liberal Poles and Jews in the mid-19th century as the solution to the "Jewish problem, " was generally believed by the 1890s to have failed. The assimilated Jews felt that they had not achieved full civil rights, and were surprised by the emergence of modern anti-assimilationist trends such as Zionism and Orthodoxy. Assimilationism could not answer economic and social problems resulting from the collapse of traditional Jewish society. On the other hand, polonized Jews were still identified as Jews by the surrounding society and, having left their traditional role, were seen as being even more dangerous. Antisemitism became part of Polish nationalist ideology which rejected "alien" influences.
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