From assimilation to antisemitism
Subtitle: the "Jewish question" in Poland, 1850-1914
By: Theodore R. Weeks.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: DeKalb, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780875803524
Subjects: Jews -- Poland -- History -- 19th century; Jews -- Poland -- History -- 20th century; Jews -- Poland -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Jews -- Poland -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Poland -- History -- 19th century; Antisemitism -- Poland -- History -- 19th century; Poland -- Ethnic relations
Description: "Theodore Weeks examines how the ideal of assimilation was gradually replaced by more exclusionary and aggressive ideologies, culminating in the early twentieth century in widespread Polish antisemitism. He argues that several long-term factors - economic change, political and cultural repression, the general intensification of national consciousness at the time, and the revolution of 1905 - played a part in the deterioration of Polish-jewish relations. As the hope for Polish cultural and political autonomy dwindled, Jews became an easy target for Poles."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Historical Background: Poles and Jews to the 1850s -- 2. The winds of change, 1856-1863 -- 3. Defeat, retrenchment, recovery, 1864-1880 -- 4. Traumatic years, 1881-1882 -- 5. Beginnings of modern Polish antisemitism, 1883-1892 -- 6. Progress and reaction, 1893-1903 -- 7. Revolution, 1904-1906 -- 8. Breakdown, 1907-1914.