Shades of a nation
Subtitle: the dynamics of belonging among the Silesian and the Jewish populations in Eastern Upper Silesia (1922-1934)
By: Anna Novikov
Series: Einzelveröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Warschau -- 34
Publisher: Fibre
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Osnabrück
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9783944870397
Subjects: Jews; Group identity; History; Nationalism; Ethnic relations
Notes: Dissertation.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- I.; title: Creation of the Polish and the Germany minority education systems in the Silesian voivodeship -- -- 1.; title: 1922-1924 : the laws from the authorities and the reaction of the population -- -- 2.; title: 1924-1926 : education materials in both types of schools ; school libraries, teachers, educational films, religion in the schools : the fight against the reduction of Polish language lessons in minority schools -- -- 3.; title: 1926-1928 : a 'good Pole' and the 'Maurer's children' : debates about the definition of a 'minority' (self-definition versus language definition) : German language exams for Silesian children in Germany minority schools : children born out of wedlock -- -- 4.; title: 1928-1933 : educational materials in both types of school ; teachers, educational films, religion in the schools : dynamics of Polonization in both types of schools ; Polinization or Germanization in the German minority schools -- -- II.; title: German Jews in Katowice : the policy of the lodges Concordia and Michael Sachs towards the Polish state, the Ostjuden, and international politics -- -- 1.; title: June 1922-May 1926 : the pro-German and anti-Polish ideology of Concordia : the policy of the B'nai B'rith order versus political changes -- -- 2.; title: May 1926 : Piłsudski's Coup d'État : a different vision of the near future : Leon Ader versus the lodges Concordia and Michael Sachs -- -- 3.; title: May 1926-November 1927 : Polish-American negotiations and in the internal politics of Poland as turning points in the policy of Concordia and Michael Sachs -- -- 4.; title: 1928-1933 : Polonization of the German speakers : dynamics of relationships between the German-speaking Jews and the Ostjuden community of Katowice -- -- 5.; title: 1933-1934 : Polish language : by love or by fear? Changes in Concordia during the anti-German state policy and after the Polish-German pact ---- Conclusion.