World War I - a crossroads in the history of European Jewry

The antisemitic awakening was a response to the limited integration of Jews in the countries that emancipated them. Antisemitism as first manifested in the 1870s and 1880s, did not attain its goal in the countries where emancipation had already been granted: the rights of Jews had been scaled down but not officially annulled. World War I overturned all the conventions and norms