Adam Schaff – droga do komunizmu (1913–1939)
Adam Schaff – The Way to Communism (1913–1939)

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the youth and adolescence of Adam Schaff in the years 1913–1939.Taking into account the context of Polish-Jewish relations during the former AustrianPartition, the author presents Schaff’s growing up in the interwar Lviv and his gradualinvolvement in the communist movement, which led him to become a member of the youthwing of the Communist Party of Poland and the party itself, and his several-month imprisonmentin 1937. In addition to the factual reconstruction of the Polish philosopher’s life,the article aims to answer the question: what were the main motives that made Adam Schaffa communist? This question can be considered in at least two ways – as an individual choiceof Schaff himself, but also as a case study of the entire generation of Polish-Jewishcommunists described, for example, by Jaff Schatz.

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