Abstract
Abstract This essay offers an overview of antisemitic entanglements of the Polish public sphere. It presents three dense vignettes, each of them illustrating a conjuncture that retraced the lines of political antagonism within the Polish public sphere: antisemitic discourses of the intelligentsia, used to push out new claimants from the public sphere during the 1905 Revolution; antisemitic undertones of the parliamentary debate on minority protection in 1919; and the first postwar working-class strike targeting the socialist government after the Kielce pogrom in 1946. Looking at those junctures and their aftermaths, the essay argues that instead of explaining too much through the “black box” of “Polish antisemitism,” we would do a better job if we disentangled this compound notion and analyze it as a set of complementary phenomena, each of them functional for various political cleavages.
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