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Date

1918CE

1918–1939

Press, schools, and parties contested language, religion, and destination.

Art and culturePolitical historyModern Jewish movements54.6834°N 25.3166°E
A World Upended: each bar is an event of the period; this one is in coral.

Sourced narrative

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10 statements

01Theater, YIVO, and schools

01

Director Mikhl Weichert served as a public figure of Polish Jewry, akin to Mikhoels.

03

Max Weinreich directed YIVO in Vilna from 1925 to 1939.

04

The Bund school network served more than 24,000 pupils, from kindergarten through teacher training.

02Health and mass culture

TOZ, backed by the Joint, organized summer camps against tuberculosis and other diseases. In 1929, Nasz Przeglad organized the Miss Judea contest, won by Zofia Oldak.

03Parties, aliyah, and the Bund

02

The Bund, Poalei Zion, General Zionists, Folkists, Revisionists, and Agudas competed for youth.

07

Division blocked a single voice and weakened the parties in Polish politics.

08

About 140,000 Polish Jews reached Palestine between the wars.

09

Zionism sheltered socialists, centrists, secularists, and the religious.

10

The Bund never elected a deputy to the Sejm, despite municipal strength.

§ 01Geography

Where it happened

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§ 04Network

Connections

    § 05Bibliography

    Further reading

    No specific reading recorded for this event.

    § 06Apparatus

    Sources on this page

    1. 01Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 398inspect
    2. 02Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 401inspect
    3. 03Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 398inspect
    4. 04Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 398inspect
    5. 05Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 399inspect
    6. 06Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 400inspect
    7. 07Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 401inspect
    8. 08Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 401inspect
    9. 09Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 401inspect
    10. 10Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 401inspect
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