Polacy, Żydzi i mit handlu kobietami
The Poles, the Jews and the Myth of Women Trafficking

Author(s): Aleksandra Jakubczak
Subject(s): History, 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: prostitution; women trafficking; emigration; crime; the Jews
Summary/Abstract: The author looks at the issue of women trafficking at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. She considers how to explain the widespread interest in the practice compared with very few cases of the trafficking confirmed by historical sources. The author also puts a question if laying responsibility for the practice on the partitioning powers and the Jews was reflected in reality. In her research, the author used methodologies assuming the existence of moral panic and the myth of women trafficking.

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