NOVEMBER 1918:
JEWS
AND
POLAND'S INDEPENDENCE

Please join us for our upcoming TJHTalks session, which will delve into the complex transition of Jewish life during the Prussian, Russian, and Austro-Hungarian partitions to life in the newly independent Second Polish Republic. Poland’s independence, symbolized by the transfer of authority by the German occupation regime to Józef Piłsudski in Warsaw on November 11, 1918, created both possibilities and challenges.

What were Polish Jews' expectations and fears?
What factors contributed to the formulation of reshaped national and communal identities?
How did Jews, who represented a significant minority in a multicultural Poland, fit into the fragile new nation-state?