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The East Galician Zionist Federation and the Polish Governments of 1922–1926

Publication date: 2020

Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia, 2020, Volume 18, pp. 85 - 95

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843925SJ.20.006.13874

Authors

Nadia Skokova
Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine
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Titles

The East Galician Zionist Federation and the Polish Governments of 1922–1926

Abstract

The fledgling processes of the single-state governmental system of the reborn Polish state in 1920 were intended to deal with many current challenges and historical backgrounds. The article analyses the causes and different contexts and conditions which were forged to initiate the Polish-Jewish negotiations of 1925. The primary attention is focused on the solutions to the economic crisis and its consequences. Also, we consider the in-house situation between different factions in the Jewish Club to better understand all the pros and cons that made the future agreements possible. To provide such analysis of the Polish-Jewish negotiations, we use the Rogers Brubaker’s nationalising  approach, which lets us examine the interactions between the Polish state nationalismand the nationalism of East Galician Zionists. We also apply multiple situational analysis to investigate the ample variety of reasons behind those negotiations. This approach allowed us to consider the 1925 Agreement in the broad geopolitical context in which both sides were interested.

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Information: Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia, 2020, Volume 18, pp. 85 - 95

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:
The East Galician Zionist Federation and the Polish Governments of 1922–1926
English:

The East Galician Zionist Federation and the Polish Governments of 1922–1926

Authors

Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine

Published at: 2020

Article status: Open

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Nadia Skokova (Author) - 100%

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