JWST 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Country Living, Roman Dmowski
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Lecture 12 - eastern european jewry between the wars. The majority of jews in eastern europe lived in habsburg austria-hungary or under tsarist russia. With the treaty of versailles and the new map, this changes. The population doesn"t move but the majority of jews live in poland, Russia, austria-hungary, czechoslovakia and romania - the majority of all european jews lived in that territory. This is a very new development from a multi ethnic empire to small nation states. There is the idea that each state will encompass one ethnic group was a plan that didn"t work, in some countries it was more obvious than others. In czechoslovakia only 40% of the population was czech, but the majority of the government was czech. The fact they encompassed various ethnic and religious groups, it didn"t mean countries championed religious tolerance. They started as unstable democracies and with time (beginning of the. 1920s), many of them shifted towards authoritarian rule.
