Author: Katharina Friedla Publisher: Academic Studies PRess ISBN: 1644697513 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 453
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Winner of the 2022 PIASA Anna M. Cienciala Award for the Best Edited Book in Polish StudiesThe majority of Poland’s prewar Jewish population who fled to the interior of the Soviet Union managed to survive World War II and the Holocaust. This collection of original essays tells the story of more than 200,000 Polish Jews who came to a foreign country as war refugees, forced laborers, or political prisoners. This diverse set of experiences is covered by historians, literary and memory scholars, and sociologists who specialize in the field of East European Jewish history and culture.
Author: Antony Polonsky Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 484
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This volume examines the issues faced by Poland's Jewish community between the two world wars. It covers the debate on the character and strength of antisemitism in Poland at that time, and the extent to which the experience of the Jews aided the Nazis in carrying out their genocidal plans.
Author: Isaac Lewin Publisher: Shengold Books ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 352
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Contains two books bound in one volume. "The Political History of Polish Jewry, 1918-1919, " by I. Lewin (pp. 1-220) describes the struggle of Jews for political rights in Poland (and their internal struggle for representation in the Sejm) during the process of organization of Poland as an independent state until it signed the Minority Treaty in Versailles on 28 June 1919. Deals with tensions of the postwar period, including antisemitic manifestations and pogroms in Chelm, Cracow, Lvov, Pinsk, and other localities. "The National Autonomy of Eastern-Galician Jewry in the West-Ukrainian Republic, 1918-1919, " by N.M. Gelber (pp. 221-317) discusses the situation of the Jews and struggle for their rights in the Ukraine, against the background of the Polish-Ukrainian war and emergence of the West Ukrainian Republic in 1918. The Poles wished to assimilate the Jews and form a common front against the Ukrainians. The Jews wished to remain neutral. Analyzes the implications for the Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians of Jewish attempts at neutrality. Deals with conditions which led to the pogrom in Lvov in November 1918, and with the antisemitism of civilian and military authorities in the West Ukrainian Republic which, however, offered Jews full cultural and national autonomy.