The Natansons as an Embodiment of the Evils of Assimilation in the Anti-Semitic Weekly Rola Cover Image

The Natansons as an Embodiment of the Evils of Assimilation in the Anti-Semitic Weekly Rola
The Natansons as an Embodiment of the Evils of Assimilation in the Anti-Semitic Weekly Rola

Author(s): Agnieszka Friedrich
Subject(s): Jewish studies, Media studies, Recent History (1900 till today), 19th Century, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: anti-Semitism; assimilation; the image of the Jew; Natanson family; Jan Jeleński; Rola;

Summary/Abstract: 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.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 55-64
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English