'March '68' antisemitic campaign: onset, development, and consequences
TitelThe 'March '68' antisemitic campaign: onset, development, and consequences
Verfasser
Call number940.531809438/0031
Inventarnummer09025n
ErscheinungsortJerusalem
VerlagYad Vashem
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
Seitenpp451-471
MaterialArtikel
ISBN9789653084490
NotesArticle from the book 'Jewish presence in absence: the aftermath of the Holocaust in Poland, 1944-2010.' pp451-471
Beschreibung
The term "March '68" is a reference to the tempestuous political events in Poland from 1967-68. The political atmosphere at the time was dominated by the first, large-scale antisemitic campaign in Poland's post-war history. The Israeli army's victory in the Six-Day war (June 5-10, 1967) provided the immediate pretext for unleashing a public antisemitic campaign. Poland lost scores of preeminent scholars, writers, journalists, publishers and those active in the creative arts