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A century where many are asking questions and trying to find out what causes human conflict (ex: Marx thinks it's class)
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The inventor of the term "antisemitism"
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A famous Polish nationalist. anti-Jewish language gives Dmowski and his political party a useful symbol that will unite “ethnic Poles” (i.e. Catholic Polish speakers) into one unit with a common “other”
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Different than Christian anti-Judaism in so far as it becomes a tool that politicians, agitators, and journalists begin to use to whip up popular support for their movement
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There were 200 pogroms which left 40 Jews killed. This causes mass emigration.
A pogrom is an act of wanton violence against any minority and that group’s property, but the word emerged linked specifically to Jews -
He was assassinated by a terrorist group called “People’s Will”, among the plotters was Hessia Helfman a Jewish woman
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A Jewish doctor serving on the eastern front of WWI
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There were 49 Jews killed, 587 injured, shops and homes destroyed and 2,000 families left homeless
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World War I, completely reconfigured the map of Europe and changed the “rules” of warfare/first modern war. End of four empires (Ottoman, Hohenzollern, Romanov, Habsburg). Millions of civilians displaced, millions of soldiers killed, war of attrition (new technologies: mustard gas, air warfare, tanks, weaponry)
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Great Brittain looked favorably on a Jewish national home in Palestine as long as there were no negative impacts on the indigenous population.
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a period of political and social revolution across the territory of the Russian Empire which started with the abolishment of the monarchy and concluded with the establishment of the Soviet Union by the bolsheviks and the end of the civil war.
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" I understand the “Holocaust” as the systematic discrimination, starvation, uprooting and mass murder of European Jews between 1933 and 1945. Etymologically, the word Holocaust comes from Greek (ὁλόκαυστος) and means a cultic animal offering that is fully consumed by fire. In the 1940s the word Holocaust came to be associated with the genocide of European Jews, by the 1960s it became more common to reference this event using this particular word.
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This is the official start of the second world war.
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Many of the ghetto's residents were deported to Treblinka.
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Lasted through May
