Published : 2012-12-31

The attitudes of Jewish population of Mińsk Mazowiecki and Kałuszyn towards the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1920

Alicja Gontarek



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The author discusses attitudes of the Jewish population residing in Mińsk Mazowiecki and Kałuszyn (Mińsk Mazowiecki district, Warsaw Province) towards the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1920. These attitudes took various forms and divided the Jews into three basic groups. The first group included collaborators and supporters of implementation of the new political system, with the help of the Red Army, mainly the communists and the leftwing Jewish youth participating in works of revolutionary committees. The second group included people uninterested in political issues, people showing indifferent attitudes towards these issues, who focused on the protection of their life and property. The third group consisted of all Jewish representing a patriotic attitude or showing solidarity with the attacked country, displaying an anti-Bolshevik attitude – mainly the orthodoxy and the assimilators, the so-called Poles of Mosaic faith. These groups divided in such a way, also differed in terms of their number within a particular city, which resulted from political tradition and the professional structure of the Jewish population residing there.

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Jewish population, interwar period, Mińsk Mazowiecki, II Republic of Poland, communism, Polish-Bolshevik war



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Gontarek , A. (2012). The attitudes of Jewish population of Mińsk Mazowiecki and Kałuszyn towards the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1920. Jewish Studies. Almanac, 2(2), 63–85. https://doi.org/10.56583/sz.784

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