Citizenship of No Man’s Land? Jewish Refugee Relief in Zbąszyń and East-Central Europe, 1938–1939

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.23777/SN.0220/ART_MFRA01" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.23777/SN.0220/ART_MFRA01</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.23777/SN.0220/ART_MFRA01" target="_blank" >10.23777/SN.0220/ART_MFRA01</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Citizenship of No Man’s Land? Jewish Refugee Relief in Zbąszyń and East-Central Europe, 1938–1939

Original language description

This article revisits Jewish relief efforts in the refugee settlement in Zbąszyń (Bentschen) and specifically the intensive involvement of the Polish and European offices of the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in the organisation of aid and the daily life of refugees. Thereby, it explores the nature of the no man’s land and the dilemmas of Jewish welfare in the critical year 1938. The article reads the relief activities against the changing characteristics of citizenship in European nation states during the interwar period. It takes into account the growing significance of ‘social citizenship’ or social rights, which were either explicitly codified or implicitly expected. I test the hypothesis that the intervention of the JDC and other Jewish relief organisations reflected and visualised the exclusion of Jewish refugees from citizenship. Can we speak, figuratively, of a citizenship in no man’s land and of the relief organisations as providing services normally attributed to membership in a state? How did the JDC reflect on the revisions of citizenship and the denaturalisation of Jews in Poland and other countries in East-Central Europe, and how did this process affect its relief activities?

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

S: I.M.O.N - Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation

ISSN

2408-9192

e-ISSN

2408-9192

Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

AT - AUSTRIA

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

37-49

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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