Review: "Polska to nie oni. Polska i Polacy w polskojęzycznej prasie żydowskiej II Rzeczypospolitej"/ Anna Landau-Czajka. Warszawa: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny, 2015. ISBN 978-83-61850-51-9
- Anna Laudau-Czajka's "Polska to nie oni. Polska i Polacy w polskojęzycznej prasie żydowskiej II Rzeczypospolitej" presents a very interesting approach to Jewish-Polish relations in interwar Poland. The book looks at the issues of Polish antisemitism, Jewish patriotism and assimilation by analysing Jewish newspapers published in Polish, making the issue of language the most important element of the study. Landau-Czajka is fully aware of the nuances of Jewish interwar press, understanding the difficulties of her own work and presenting a collection of different case studies that should be treated more as a catalogue of questions than as a list of clear answers (p. 11). She is also aware of the tricky issue of public opinion and the fact that Jewish press published in Polish, though read mostly by acculturated (not assimilated) Jews, cannot be considered as an expression of any universal Jewish perceptions of Poles and Poland (pp. 42-3). It cannot even be considered as an expression of acculturated Jews'Anna Laudau-Czajka's "Polska to nie oni. Polska i Polacy w polskojęzycznej prasie żydowskiej II Rzeczypospolitej" presents a very interesting approach to Jewish-Polish relations in interwar Poland. The book looks at the issues of Polish antisemitism, Jewish patriotism and assimilation by analysing Jewish newspapers published in Polish, making the issue of language the most important element of the study. Landau-Czajka is fully aware of the nuances of Jewish interwar press, understanding the difficulties of her own work and presenting a collection of different case studies that should be treated more as a catalogue of questions than as a list of clear answers (p. 11). She is also aware of the tricky issue of public opinion and the fact that Jewish press published in Polish, though read mostly by acculturated (not assimilated) Jews, cannot be considered as an expression of any universal Jewish perceptions of Poles and Poland (pp. 42-3). It cannot even be considered as an expression of acculturated Jews' opinions, partly because different newspapers presented different opinions, partly because these opinions changed over time.…
Author: | Milosz K. Cybowski |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-11015 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.11584/opus4-1101 |
Editor: | Dorothea Traupe |
Document Type: | Review |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2021/04/15 |
Date of first Publication: | 2016/04/18 |
Publishing Institution: | Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt |
Creating Corporation: | Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org) |
Release Date: | 2021/04/19 |
Institutes: | Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Polenstudien |
Licence (German): | Keine Lizenz - es gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht |