Żyd Polski Odrodzonej: studium przypadku Aleksandra Hafftki, urzędnika ministerialnego i żydowskiego działacza społecznego w II RP
A Jew in Reborn Poland: Case Study of Aleksander Hafftka, Interior Ministry Official and Jewish Civic Activist in the 2nd Republic of Poland

Summary/Abstract: From 1927 until 1937, Aleksander Hafftka was head of the Jewish Division in the Nationalities Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland. In this capacity, Hafftka was in charge of the surveillance of political developments in the Jewish community, legal projects that affected Jews and maintaining contacts with Jewish social and political elites. Hafftka also often represented the Polish government vis-à-vis the Jewish community. At the same time, he was a part of this very community himself and engaged in its social life. In this article, I briefly sketch out Hafftka’s career in interwar Poland and his attempts to reconcile the interests of the Polish state and its Jewish inhabitants. I also focus on the political background of his dismissal during the nationalist swing of the Polish government in 1937.

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