Modern and Radical by Kamil Kijek - 9780253074935

Indiana University Press

Modern and RadicalPolitics, Culture, and Socialization of Jewish Youth in Interwar Poland\nAuthor(s): Kamil Kijek\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253074935, 978-0253074935\nSynopsis\nWhy were the last generation of Jews to grow up in Poland before the Holocaust so susceptible to change and new ideas? Despite any major differences between different groups of Jewish youth, whether rich, poor, traditional, orthodox, Zionist, socialist, or communist, the generation as a whole was unified by \""radical modernism,\"" engaging with revolutionary political ideologies of the 1930s.\n\nModern and Radical explores the political consciousness of this generation of Jewish youth who came of age in 1930s Poland. Author Kamil Kijek describes how Jewish youth in the 1920s and '30s, unlike their parents and grandparents, attended Polish public schools, adapted to the realities of a Polish national state, and were sige