From Assimilation to Antisemitism: The Jewish Question in Poland, 1850-1914

by Theodore R. Weeks

Before the mid-nineteenth century, Jews in the Polish lands led lives quite separate from their Christian neighbors. As modern ideologies of nationalism gained strength, however, Jewish separateness came to be seen as a problem, even a threat, to the Polish nation. Assimilation, a process by which Jews would become Poles in all but their religious practices, was the solution most often presented by liberal Poles from the late eighteenth century--when...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875803520
• ISBN13: 9780875803524
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher