Jews of East Central Europe between the World Wars

An important study of the economic, demographic, and cultural condition of the five million Jews in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and the Baltic Republics in the 1918-1939 period. One of Mendelsohn's conclusions is that the degree of antisemitism in each country was not related to the degree of acculturation or assimilation of the Jews.. In every country the situation progressively deteriorated. There is an excellent bibliographic essay leading the reader to other sources on the topic