Christian corpses for Christians! Dissecting the antisemitism behind the cadaver affair of the second Polish Republic
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Christian corpses for Christians! Dissecting the antisemitism behind the cadaver affair of the second Polish Republic
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.531809438/0025
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]08356a
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Peter Lang
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2012
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp9-28
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]Series title[nb-NO]Warsaw studies in Jewish history and memory ; v. 1.
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9783631631249
NotesArticle from the book 'The Holocaust in ocupied Poland: new findings and new interpretations' pp9-28
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
The so-called 'cadaver affair' first erupted in Vilno in 1921, when Polish students demanded a contribution of cadavers from the Jewish community proportionate to the number of Jewish medical students at the Stefan Batory University. They threatened to block their Jewish colleagues from participating in anatomy lectures and laboratory classes if no such contributions were made