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Syjonistyczny ruch kobiet w Europie na przełomie XIX i XX wieku

Publication date: 31.03.2016

Studia Judaica, 2015, Nr 2 (36), pp. 271 - 291

https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.15.012.4603

Authors

Katarzyna Czerwonogóra
European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
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Syjonistyczny ruch kobiet w Europie na przełomie XIX i XX wieku

Abstract

The article presents the process that led to the creation of the Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO) in 1920 in London. The main reason for creating a separate international women’s organization within the Zionist movement was the lack of support for women’s ideas in the male-dominated structures. The trigger for the establishment of a separate women’s group after World War I was a trip to Palestine by three middle-class British Jewish women, the wives of high-ranking clerks in the British Mandate for Palestine. However, the creation of WIZO at that particular time was an outcome of several political and cultural phenomena: the beginnings of emancipation of Jewish women in Eastern Europe during the Haskalah, processes of emancipation of Jews in Western Europe, the development of modern nationalisms and anti-Semitism, and the international recognition of the Zionist movement. These conditions led to the creation of Jewish women’s networks, which were the pre-existing condition for the creation of WIZO.

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Information: Studia Judaica, 2015, Nr 2 (36), pp. 271 - 291

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:
Syjonistyczny ruch kobiet w Europie na przełomie XIX i XX wieku
English:
Women’s Zionist Movement in Europe at the Turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Authors

European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

Published at: 31.03.2016

Article status: Open

Licence: None

Percentage share of authors:

Katarzyna Czerwonogóra (Author) - 100%

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Publication languages:

Polish