0438331 - ÚSD 2015 RIV NL eng M - Monography Chapter
Čapková, Kateřina
Dilemmas of Minority Politics. Jewish Migrants in Postwar Czechoslovakia and Poland.
Postwar Jewish Displacement and Rebirth 1945-1967. Leiden: Brill, 2014 - (Ouzan, F.; Gerstenfeld, M.), s. 63-75. Jewish Identities in a Changing World, 23. ISBN 978-90-04-27776-2
Institutional support: RVO:68378114
Keywords : Jewish migrants * postwar Czechoslovakia * postwar Poland
Subject RIV: AB - History

Post-war Czechoslovakia and Poland developed different policies towards the Jews. Whereas the Czechoslovak government refused to acknowledge the rights of the Jewish national minority, the Polish government accepted, though only temporarily, the right of Jewish minority to distinct minority policy. The main argument made in this article is that even though recognition of Jewish nationality in Poland was temporary, lasting only until 1949, it had a far-reaching impact on the post-war history of Jews in Poland. A comparison with Czechoslovakia elucidates the difference. The condition of the Jews in each country differed from that in the other in institutional infrastructures, linguistic conditions, and the extent of recognition and appreciation of the Jewish communities re-established by the Jewish refugees.
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