The situation of Jews in Poland, in the 20s
After Poland regained independence in 1917 situation of Jews people was hard. They mostly lived in Middle and East Poland. Polish people weren’t in good terms with Jewish people. That nationality took a big part in Poland. They were 10% of whole population. Most of them lived in cities and the rest of them lived in villages . In some cities were more Jewish than Polish people. Jewish who lived in villages mainly worked in non-agricultural professions.
Jewish people were thought as people of communism and it made a lot of conflicts.
They cared about their own education. Jews made schools where they studied Yiddish and Hebrew.
In Polish government was worked some kind of a Jewish party.
Jewish society dominated trade and free professions. It was believed that they were unfair, that’s why they started to calling them frauders. The econimic conflict turned into religious conflict. People were talking that Jews were responsible for the Jesus death.
Job :
They mainly worked in trade and in small buisness. Almost 40% for them were doctors and 50% were lawyers, that was a reason to jealousy.
It was the biggest problem at the univeristies where Polish students wanted to limit a numer of Jewish student or fully eliminated them from school. Polish young people wanted them to sit in different places on clases. Sometimes they were fighting with each other.
Polish politics :
Polish people were really disrespecfull about Jews. They accused them of unfriendly or neutral attitude to Polish people. They thought that participaton of Jewish people in economy is harmful. They were certain that Jewish had bad influance on Polish culture.
Polish constitution were saing about garanted civil rights and politics all of Polsh civilians including possiblity of free cultivation of the language and tradition, conducting culturalr and educational actvities, taking part in politics. Unfortuatly it didn’t work in real life. There were more nad more conflicts between Polish and Jewish people.