The power(lessness) of Czechoslovak Jews during the Second World War

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F14%3A10210907" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/14:10210907 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/.U34XAvl_tu0" target="_blank" >http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/.U34XAvl_tu0</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13501674.2014.904584" target="_blank" >10.1080/13501674.2014.904584</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The power(lessness) of Czechoslovak Jews during the Second World War

Original language description

The article evaluates the perceptions of Jewish power among the Czechoslovak exiles in Britain during the Second World War. The analysis documents the apparent persistence of prejudices against the Jewish minority among the Czechoslovak non-Jewish authorities that eventually formed the government-in-exile, under the presidency of Edvard Beneš. The Czechoslovak exiles believed that the Jewish minority, in particular the Zionists, had vehement supporters within Jewish circles in Western countries. Furthermore, they believed that the Jewish press played a significant role in the formation of public opinion in Britain and especially in the United States. In the early 1940s, the government-in-exile embarked on a policy of national homogenisation of post-warCzechoslovakia and was anxious to give concessions to the political representatives of the ethnic minority groups in exile, in particular the Germans, Hungarians and Jews. Yet the concerns about Jewish influence in liberal democracies gr

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AB - History

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GP13-15989P" target="_blank" >GP13-15989P: The Czechs, Slovaks and Jews: Together but Apart , 1938-1989</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

East European Jewish Affairs

ISSN

1350-1674

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

44

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

30

Pages from-to

21-50

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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