ADDRESS UNKNOWN: RESHAPING THE JEWISH LIVING SPACE AND SOCIAL MOBILITY IN THE SLOVAK STATE (1939–1945)

• Authors: Lônčíková Michala
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The social mobility is a relatively common phenomenon in society; however, in the period of the Slovak State (1939–1945) it was predominantly caused by the economic and social engineering of the single ruling Hlinka’s Slovak People’s Party. Anti-Semitism was made one of the main pillars of the internal state policy. Systematic pauperisation of the Jewish community gradually affected each perspective of everyday life of Jews in Slovakia, including the limitation of Jewish people’s living space. This practice led to involuntary moving out from houses and flats in designated urban zones. Subsequently, this process culminated in the Aryanization of the housing formerly owned by Jews. The main aim of this contribution is to analyse spatial and social consequences of the reshaping of the Jewish housing opportunities with special interest in the entangled social mobility of both Jews and Gentiles, which will be mainly exemplified through selected cases from the Banská Bystrica district.

Keywords

EN

JEWS; HOUSING UNITS; FORCED MIGRATION; BANSKÁ BYSTRICA; HOLOCAUST; ANTI-SEMITIC POLICY; SLOVAK STATE; SOCIAL MOBILITY

• Publisher: Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice
• Journal: Mesto a dejiny
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 112 – 126

Contributors

author

Lônčíková Michala

• Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Vlašská 355/9, 118 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.33542/CAH2020-1-05