KRUSZYŃSKI Jozef Fr. - Jews and the Jewish Question [1920].

Włocławek 1920. published by the General Bookstore and Diocesan Printing House. 14x20 cm, pp. 158, half cloth bookbinding. Very good condition (ownership signatures, paper sticker on spine).

The work of Józef Kruszyński (1877-1953), Catholic priest, professor and later rector of the Catholic University of Lublin. He became famous as the author of anti-Semitic publications, in which he presented a negative image of the Jewish community. His views reflected the anti-Semitic mood prevailing in Poland between the wars, especially in Catholic and nationalist circles.

In Contents: Jews in the pagan world. The Jewish race. Reasons for persecution of Jews in southern and western Europe. Migration to Poland. What favored the settlement of Jews in Polish lands? The attitude of Polish society towards Jews before the partition of Poland. The position of the Jews after the partition. The views of Wielopolski. Efforts made among the Jews to solve the Jewish question. Zionism. Nationalism. The position of the Jews during the war. Minority rights. Is assimilation possible? Is assimilation advisable? Establishment of a Jewish state.