Jews have long seen the interwar years as a "golden age" for Polish Jewry and hold it in special reverence because of the community's heroic struggle against the encroaching darkness of antisemitism. During the years 1918 to 1939, Polish Jews constituted the largest Jewish community in noncommunist Europe and were the leading cultural and political force in the Jewish Diaspora. In this volume distinguished American, West European, Israeli, and Polish scholars combine forces to explore the politics, antisemitism, economic and social life, religious patterns, and cultural creativity of a period whose relevance is heightened because of current changes under way in Eastern Europe.
- ISBN10 0874515556
- ISBN13 9780874515558
- Publish Date 31 July 1991 (first published 1 October 1989)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Brandeis University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 544
- Language English