From Assimilation to Antisemitism: The Jewish Question in Poland, 1850-1914

ISBN-13: 9780875803524 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 252 str.

Theodore R. Weeks

Opis

The large number of Jews living in Polish lands had lived as a separate estate from the Poles until the mid-nineteenth century. As modern ideologies of democratic, homogeneous national societies came to life, this separateness became a problem. Focusing on several long-term factors and one major event - the Revolution of 1905 - Weeks traces Poland's failed attempts to integrate its Jewish communities into the country's social fabric. While Jews became politically engaged during the Industrial Revolution, social integration remained elusive.