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Long 19th Century
A century where many are asking questions and trying to find out what causes human conflict (ex: Marx thinks it's class) -
Parisian Jews Emancipated in French Revolution
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French Jews Emancipated in French Revolution
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Wilhelm Marr
The inventor of the term "antisemitism" -
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Roman Dmowski
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” -
Marr Creates the term "Antisemitism"
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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Russian Pogroms
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 -
Tsar Alexander II Assassinated
He was assassinated by a terrorist group called “People’s Will”, among the plotters was Hessia Helfman a Jewish woman -
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Bernhard Bardach
A Jewish doctor serving on the eastern front of WWI -
Porter Believes that Polish Nationalists Begin to Use Antisemitism to Define Poland
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Kishinev Pogrom
There were 49 Jews killed, 587 injured, shops and homes destroyed and 2,000 families left homeless -
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The Great War/ World War I
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) -
Balfour Declaration
Great Brittain looked favorably on a Jewish national home in Palestine as long as there were no negative impacts on the indigenous population. -
Russian Revolution
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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The Events that Add Up to the Holocaust
" 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. -
Nuremberg Laws Passed
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Nazis Invade Poland
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Establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto
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Nazi Upper Circle Decides to Start Killing Women and Children
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Mass Deportation from Warsaw Ghetto
Many of the ghetto's residents were deported to Treblinka. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Lasted through May
