%0 Journal Article %T The Natansons as an Embodiment of the Evils of Assimilation in the Anti-Semitic Weekly Rola %A Friedrich, Agnieszka %J Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia %V 2018 %R 10.4467/20843925SJ.18.004.10818 %N Volume 16 %P 55-64 %K anti-Semitism, assimilation, the image of the Jew, Natanson family, Jan Jeleński, Rola %@ 1733-5760 %D 2018 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/scripta-judaica-cracoviensia/article/the-natansons-as-an-embodiment-of-the-evils-of-assimilation-in-the-anti-semitic-weekly-rola %X Rola was the first periodical in Poland of an unequivocally anti-Semitic profile. An essential element of its ideological programme was combatting Jewish assimilation. According to Rola, processes of assimilation were responsible for generating a new type of Jew – liberal, assimilated and unprincipled – and therefore much more perilous to Polish national interests than the model of a traditional, Orthodox Jew.