What did it mean to be Loyal? Jewish Survivors in Post-War Czechoslovakia in a Comparative Perspective

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F14%3A10293245" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/14:10293245 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12066" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12066</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12066" target="_blank" >10.1111/ajph.12066</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
What did it mean to be Loyal? Jewish Survivors in Post-War Czechoslovakia in a Comparative Perspective
Original language description
Around 50,000 Jewish survivors returned to Czechoslovakia after the Second World War. Prewar Czechoslovakia built its image on the reputation of its perceived excellent treatment of minorities, in particular the Jews. Nevertheless, Jewish survivors coming back to Czechoslovakia after the war faced hostilities from the non-Jewish population and encountered considerable obstacles with their rehabilitation and restitution based on their Jewishness alone. Only 14,000-18,000 Jews remained in the country by 1950, with the rest finding new homes elsewhere, especially in Israel and the United States. Czechoslovakia is often depicted as a country that rejected anti-Semitism and sympathised with the plight of the Jews before, during and after the war. Czechoslovakia was one of the first democratic countries that supported the creation of a Jewish state, both politically and practically. In contrast, this article documents the obstacles that the survivors encountered in their rehabilitation effor
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - 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

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