WEININGER FROM VISTULA LAND? JULIAN UNSZLICHT'S VICISSITUDES (1883-1953) (Nadwislanski Weininger? Przypadki Juljana Unszlichta (1883-1953))

• Authors: Krzywiec Grzegorz
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The life of Julian Unszlicht (1883-1953) illustrates the case and process of the assimilation of Polish Jews. However, Unszlicht's case is special as it shows that holding anti-Semitic views, which were to be a ticket to a Catholic society, guaranteed neither putting the roots down permanently nor gaining a new identity. The biography of a priest-convert allows to look closer at the processes of effacement and convergence of anti-Jewish rhetoric. The modern one, of the turn of 19th and 20th centuries, with Catholic anti-Judaism, which was constantly excused by religious reasons and at the same time, it often spread to the ethnic-racial mental grounds. Contrary to common definitions and distinctions, those two ways of thinking perfectly complemented and strengthened each other, both living using the other's reasoning. The Holocaust added a tragic punch line to the embroiled story of the priest-convert.

Keywords

EN

PROGRESSIVE ANTI-SEMITISM; CATHOLIC CHURCH AND JEWISH QUESTION; SELF-HATRED RHETORIC

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Zaglada Zydów. Studia i Materialy (Holocaust. Studies and Materials)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 5
• Pages: 243-257
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Krzywiec Grzegorz

• Grzegorz Krzywiec, Instytut Historii PAN, ul. Rynek Starego Miasta 29/31, 00-272 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA08388