The Image of Polish Jewry Between the Two World Wars, 1919-1939

Jewish political parties and movements : Zionists, Haredim, the Bund

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The image of Polish Jewry between the two world wars, 1919-1939 : Jewish political parties and movements : Zionists, Haredim, the Bund
Authors:Ephraim Kaye, International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem
Summary:A teaching unit aiming to describe the political, social, economic and demographical structure of the Jewish community in Poland in the interwar period, and to present the existential problems faced by the Jews and solutions offered by various ideological factions of Jewish society. Pp. 53-76 contain excerpts from books, articles, and speeches of Polish Jewish political leaders of the 1930s, showing responses of General Zionists, Revisionist Zionists, Mizrachi, the Bund, assimilationists and some other factions to the rise of antisemitism in Poland, as well as on some other problems. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)