Unchosen People - Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland

Conventional histories of modern Jewish politics emphasize the agency offered by Zionism, liberalism, and socialism. Kenneth B. Moss traces a darker reckoning with powerlessness amid grave dangers in Europe's largest Jewish community, recovering a search for realism about minority experience, the nation-state, and the making of a future.

About the author

Kenneth B. Moss is Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Jewish History and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution, which won the Sami Rohr Prize of the National Jewish Book Council. His work has appeared in Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish, Russian, German, and Portuguese as well as English.

Summary

Conventional histories of modern Jewish politics emphasize the agency offered by Zionism, liberalism, and socialism. Kenneth B. Moss traces a darker reckoning with powerlessness amid grave dangers in Europe’s largest Jewish community, recovering a search for realism about minority experience, the nation-state, and the making of a future.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth B. Moss, Moss Kenneth B.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9780674245105
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24510-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Poland, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Jewish, HISTORY / Europe / Poland, Social discrimination & inequality, Social and cultural history, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice