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2010-12-01

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A Polish Weininger? The Case of Julian Unszlicht (1883–1953)

Grzegorz Krzywiec

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absolwent Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego i SNS przy IFISPAN, adiunkt IHPAN w Warszawie, obecnie zajmuje się badaniem polskiego nowoczesnego antysemityzmu w  kontekście europejskim. W druku praca pt. Szowinizm po polsku. Przypadek Romana Dmowskiego (1886-1905) (2009). Zainteresowania badawcze: dzieje polskiej inteligencji w XIX i XX wieku, stosunki polsko-żydowskie, nowoczesny antysemityzm.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1649-866X

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, 2010: Holocaust Studies and Materials, pages: 227-243

Publication date: 2010-11-30

https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.126

Abstract

The life of Julian Unszlicht (1883–1953) illustrates the case and process of the assimilation of Polish Jews. However, Unszlicht’s case is special as it shows that holding anti-Semitic views, which were to be a ticket to a Catholic society, guaranteed neither putting the roots down permanently nor gaining a new identity. The biography of a priest-convert allows to look closer at the processes of effacement and convergence of anti-Jewish rhetoric. The modern one, of the turn of 19th and 20th centuries, with Catholic anti-Judaism, which was constantly excused by religious reasons and at the same time, it often spread to the ethnic-racial mental grounds. Contrary to common definitions and distinctions, those two ways of thinking perfectly complemented and strengthened each other, both living using the other’s reasoning. The Holocaust added a tragic punch line to the embroiled story of the priest-convert

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Krzywiec, G. (2010). A Polish Weininger? The Case of Julian Unszlicht (1883–1953). Zagłada Żydów. Studia I Materiały, (Holocaust Studies and Materials), 227-243. https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.126

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ISSN:
1895-247X
eISSN:
2657-3571

Data publikacji:
2010-12-01

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