JWST 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Jewish Political Movements, East-Central Europe, Jewish Question
Document Summary
The interwar years in east central europe were defined by the creation of new states such as poland, czechoslovakia, During these years, previously subjugated nationalities struggled to overcome difficulties and establish viable states. In most of the new states, relations between jews and gentiles were bad from the beginning and in all of them these relations deteriorated sharply during the 1930s. In hungary, jewish emancipation was revoked, while in. Poland and romania the emancipation won in 1918/1919 was no guarantee of equality. In the 1920s and 1930s modern jewish political movements started to develop. The demographic decline of east european jewry and the economic decline in the 1930s resulted in the impoverishment of hundreds of thousands of jews in poland, The new states faced the difficult task of nation-building after centuries of dependence. The principal internal threat to the stability of such countries as poland, hungary and romania in the 1930s emanated from the fascist movements.
