Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 8 : Jews in Independent Poland, 1918-1939 Paperback / softback
Edited by Antony (Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University (United States) Polonsky, Jerzy Tomaszewski, Ezra Mendelsohn
Part of the Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry series
Paperback / softback
Description
In the period between the two world wars, Poland's Jewish community was second only in size to that of the United States, and was the laboratory in which the ideological orientations which dominated the Jewish world - Zionism, Bundism, Neo-Orthodoxy, Assimilation - were tested.
There has been much disagreement as to the character and strength of anitsemitism in Poland at that time, and the extent to which the experience of the Jews aided the Nazis in carrying out their genocidal plans.
This latest volume of Polin includes contributions from Poland, western Europe, Israel, and North America, which together provide a clearer understanding of the issues which have in the past proved so divisive.
It also includes a number of personal testimonies from people who experienced the interwar period at first hand.
The result is a book that will be essential reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and in the problems of ethnic minorities in post-Versailles Europe.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:480 pages
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:01/07/2004
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- ISBN:9781904113225
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:480 pages
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:01/07/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9781904113225
