Zbiorowość i tożsamość w polskojęzycznych czasopismach nurtu asymilacyjnego (1870–1910)
Community and Identity in Polish-Language Magazines of Assimilation Movement (1870–1910)

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to discussion taking place in the Polish-language Jewish press inthe second half of the 19th century concerning the concepts of identity and community. In theperiod covered by this paper, there were political and social processes, in which the abovementioned terminology played a key role. The anti-Semitic slogans appearing more andmore often in the 1870s made the Polish maskils develop a unified discourse on nationalityor tribalism. Similarly, since the 1880s supporters of assimilation entered into a dispute onthe fundamental matters with the Zionist movement. All these factors “enforced” specificdefinitions, sometimes even declarations, placed in the press.

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