Published : 2011-12-31

The Galician Jews during the Great War 1914-1918

Konrad Zieliński



Abstract

Modern anti-Semitism, present, although barely seen in Galicia before 1914, triumphed during the time of the Great War. The Habsburgs’ golden age sank into oblivion and, reasonably, the Jews and the Christians’ co-existence. The ethnic nationalism, a phenomenon familiar to any of the new formed states of the Middle-East Europe, especially took a heavy toll in Poland. The war destroyed the base of living of thousands of Jews. What was saved and protected from the war, at the end of the war and during the first months of the Polish independence, was plundered and destroyed by the Christian neighbors. It concerned hundreds of towns, villages and village settlements. At the same time, the war time was the period of development of the social-political and cultural life of the Jews, being a proof  forliberation of some part of Jewish inhabitants of the country from long-lasting and supreme orthodoxy’s influence.

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Galicia, Jews, World War I, nationalism, orthodoxy



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Zieliński, K. (2011). The Galician Jews during the Great War 1914-1918. Jewish Studies. Almanac, 1(1), 17–42. https://doi.org/10.56583/sz.570

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