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Poles,
Jews, and the Politics of Nationality
The Bund and the Polish
Socialist Party in Late Czarist Russia, 1892–1914
Joshua D. Zimmerman
"Poles, Jews, and the Politics of Nationality
is unusually well written and exhaustively researched."
—Jack L. Jacobs, John Jay College
The Jewish experience on Polish lands is often viewed backwards
through the lens of the Holocaust and the ethnic rivalries that
escalated in the period between the two world wars. Critical
to the history of Polish-Jewish relations, however, is the period
prior to World War I when the emergence of mass electoral politics
in Czarist Russia led to the consolidation of modern political
parties. Using sources published in Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew,
and Russian, Joshua D. Zimmerman has compiled a full-length English-language
study of the relations between the two dominant progressive movements
in Russian Poland. He examines the Polish Socialist Party (PPS),
which sought social emancipation and equal civil rights for minority
nationalities, including Jews, under a democratic Polish republic,
and the Jewish Labor Bund, which declared that Jews were a nation
distinct from Poles and Russians and advocated cultural autonomy.
By 1905, the PPS abandoned its call for Jewish assimilation,
and recognized Jews as a separate nationality. Zimmerman demonstrates
persuasively that Polish history in Czarist Russia cannot be
fully understood without studying the Jewish influence and that
Jewish history was equally infused with the Polish influence.
Joshua D. Zimmerman is assistant professor of East European
Jewish history and holds the Eli and Diana Zborowski Chair in
Interdisciplinary Holocaust Studies at Yeshiva University.
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December 2003
LC: 2003008903 DK
368 pp. 6 x 9
35 b & w photos and graphs
ISBN 0-299-19460-4 Cloth $45.00 s
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