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Their departure was hastened by the destruction of Jewish institutions, post-war anti-Jewish violence, and the hostility of the Communist Party to both religion and private enterprise, but also because in 1946–1947 Poland was the only Eastern Bloc country to allow free Jewish aliyah to Israel, [28] without visas or exit permits.
Jewish communities in the Second Polish Republic were divided into so-called large communities (with more than 5,000 members) and smaller ones. [38] The local community belonged to the large category. Throughout the interwar period, Rabbi Chaim Rabinowicz led the community. Additionally, it was governed by a board and a council.
Jankel Adler, Polish-Jewish painter; Adolf Behrman, Polish-Jewish painter; Henryk Berlewi, Polish-Jewish painter [31] Alexander Bogen, painter, sculptor, stage designer, book illustrator and a commander partisan during World War II; Aniela Cukier, Polish-Jewish painter; Karl Duldig, Polish-Jewish sculptor; Jacob Epstein, American-British sculptor
The Central Committee of Polish Jews also referred to as the Central Committee of Jews in Poland and abbreviated CKŻP, (Polish: Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, Yiddish: צענטראלער קאמיטעט פון די יידן אין פוילן, romanized: Tsentraler Komitet fun di Yidn in Poyln) was a state-sponsored political representation of Jews in Poland at the end of World War II. [1]
Jewish soldiers received kosher food and their religious holidays were respected. [5]: 107–108 Bernard Mond, the only Polish Jew to reach the rank of general in the Second Polish Republic. The percentage of Jewish soldiers in the Polish Army varied from about 3.5% to 6.5% depending on the year and source; in 1938 it was estimated to be around 6%.
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Polish-Jewish culture in the United States (7 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Polish-Jewish diaspora" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, chair of the Institute of Slavic Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences, replied to a critical review of her work published in that journal. Finding it unfair, she exclaimed that even to enquire whether the journal had any meaningful peer-review process was a rhetorical exercise; she also noted that three editors ...