HIS 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Bereavement In Judaism, Underground Press
29 Mar 2017
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Lecture 11: the holocaust from the victims" side. There was a high concentration of jews in poland and eastern europe. Center for jews before the great migrations to the u. s. around 1900. Many polish jews lived in small rural towns (shtetls) Ran small businesses and did artisanal work. Community life was usually centered around the synagogue. In poland"s major cities (especially the capital city of warsaw), jews often owned small businesses, were artisans, or were manual laborers. Very diverse: some jews were very traditional in their religious practices while others embraced modern ideas. Jews often made up the majority of the skilled workforce. Poland had a strong tradition of antisemitism. In the 1920s, poland"s catholic majority saw jews as outsiders who undermined national unity. Polish nationalists wanted to eliminate minorities after gaining independence. Jews made up about 10% of the total population. Most poles were anti-german but were not against the nazis.
