| No 34
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Ethnic Diversity in Twentieth Century Poland |
| Institution |
School of Slavonic and East European Studies; University of London, WC1E 7HU England |
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Publication (Journal) |
Polin 4 (1989): 143-58 |
| Published in |
U.K., 1989 |
| Language |
English |
| Abstract |
An attempt is made to place Polish-Jewish relations into the broader ethnic context of pre-WWII Poland. In the early twentieth century, all of Poland's ethnic communities, including the Poles themselves in many areas, saw themselves as oppressed minorities. In the 1930s, a period of growing tension, all of them developed violent, nationalistic wings of opinion. Poles, Jews, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Belorussians, and Germans shared many things in common, and little is to be gained from a narrow understanding of Polish-Jewish relations, and much less by interepreting the Jewish experience under Polish rule as a prelude to the policies of the Nazis. |
| Discipline(s) |
social history
, sociology
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| Source(s) |
survey
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