'On the gallows': the 'Politics of assimilation' in turn-of-the-century Warsaw
Title'On the gallows': the 'Politics of assimilation' in turn-of-the-century Warsaw
Author
Call number940.531809438/0017
Object number02751o
Place of publicationOxford, England
PublisherInstitute for Polish Jewish Studies, The Littman Library of Jewish civilization, The American Association for Polish-Jewish Studies
Year of publication
2008
Physical descriptionpp339-353
MaterialArticle
Series titlePolin:Studies in Polish Jewry Vol.20
ISBN1904113065
NotesArticle from the book 'Making Holocaust memory' pp339-353
Description
Assimilation, more often than not, is considered a phenomenon encountered exclusively in the west. Many of the factors considered to be necessary preconditions for Jewish integration - such as legal and political equality - came late to both the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires.