Prostytutki żydowskie w województwie lubelskim w dwudziestoleciu międzywojennym. Analiza środowiska
Jewish Prostitutes in Lublin Voivodship in the Inter-War Period. Analysis of the Environment

Summary/Abstract: The article seeks to analyse the phenomenon of Jewish prostitution in Lublin and Lublin voivodship during the two inter-war decades. This text focuses on the description of the following problems: the geography and statistics of Jewish prostitution in individual towns of Lublin voivodship (Lublin, Chełm, Siedlce, Zamość and some smaller towns) as well as crime rate and the incidence of venereal diseases among Jewish prostitutes. The article also contains basic information regarding the issue of prostitution in the Second Republic. The analysis of the problem leads the author to the conclusion that prostitution is a phenomenon that was a component of assimilation of the community of Jewish women, in a very broad sense and understood in a peculiar manner. Prostitution was becoming a bridge between two different worlds, which rarely met in Lublin region in normal circumstances.

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