Polish Politics before and after the Holocaust
The Impact of Antisemitism on Political Cleavages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6223991 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wiktor Marzec (0000-0002-0722-7625, The Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 37-43 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Polish Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-2970 • E-ISSN: 2330-0841 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5406/polishreview.66.4.0037 |
| OpenAlex | W4210681431 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
This essay offers an overview of antisemitic entanglements of the Polish public sphere. It presents three dense vignettes, each of them illustrating a conjuncture that retraced the lines of political antagonism within the Polish public sphere: antisemitic discourses of the intelligentsia, used to push out new claimants from the public sphere during the 1905 Revolution; antisemitic undertones of the parliamentary debate on minority protection in 1919; and the first postwar working-class strike targeting the socialist government after the Kielce pogrom in 1946. Looking at those junctures and their aftermaths, the essay argues that instead of explaining too much through the “black box” of “Polish antisemitism,” we would do a better job if we disentangled this compound notion and analyze it as a set of complementary phenomena, each of them functional for various political cleavages
Antisemitism · Archaeology · Intelligentsia · Judaism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Sociology · The Holocaust · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |