Published : 2018-12-31

The Warsaw Jewish Association for the Protection of Women and its Activity between 1904 and 1914. Why did it fail?

Aleksandra Jakubczak



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The article discusses the origins and the beginnings of the first Jewish Association for the Protection of Women in Poland, founded in Warsaw in 1904. Although the Jewish society struggled with the growing phenomenon of prostitution and trafficking in women, the Association did not receive support or showed any signs of interest from the Jewish public opinion. In fact, the organisation was widely criticised and its inability to solve the problem of "white slavery" was one of the reasons for the outbreak of street violence in Warsaw in 1905, the so-called pogrom of pimps. The author tried to examine why the organisation was criticised and marginalised in Jewish social life, and to answer the question of what led to the ultimate failure of its mission.

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Jewish Association for the Protection of Women, prostatution, Jewish society, trafficking in women



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Jakubczak , A. (2018). The Warsaw Jewish Association for the Protection of Women and its Activity between 1904 and 1914. Why did it fail?. Jewish Studies. Almanac, 8(7-8), 29–41. https://doi.org/10.56583/sz.591

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