Title: An unchosen people : Jewish political reckoning in interwar Poland /
Authors: Moss, Kenneth B., 1974-
Year: 2021
Subjects: Jews Poland Identity History; Jews Poland Politics and government History; Jewish nationalism Poland History; Antisemitism Poland History; Antisemitism; Jewish nationalism; Jews Identity; Jews Politics and government; Poland History; Poland
Abstract: "Conventional histories of modern Jewish politics emphasize the agency offered by Zionism, liberalism, and socialism. Kenneth B. Moss traces a darker reckoning with powerlessness amid grave dangers in Europe's largest Jewish community, recovering a search for realism about minority experience, the nation-state, and the making of a future"--
Contents: Introduction: Unchosen times, unchosen conditions -- Futurelessness and the Jewish question -- Toward a politics of doubt and exit -- Minorityhood and the limits of culture -- Antisemitism, nationalism, eliminationism -- of skepticism and chastened inquiry -- Palestine as possibility -- reason, exit, and post-communal triage -- Conclusion: "With a cruel logic".