TY - JOUR
T1 - Zionist Care and Education for Galician Refugee Children in Austria during the First World War
AU - Rybak, Jan
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PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - In 1914, Russian advances led to between 340,000 and 600,000 refugees either fleeing or being expelled from Galicia. About half were Jewish, many of whom were children. The need to care for them was a major preoccupation of the Jewish leadership in Vienna and Prague. In these relief activities, a key role was taken by the Zionists, who saw such action as not only necessary to aid suffering Jews but also as a way to broaden their influence within the Jewish community. Throughout the war the Zionist activists invested considerable resources in providing rescue and assistance for Jewish refugee children from Galicia, whom they saw as potential future pillars of the nation, and in creating institutions in which these children would be educated in a modern and progressive manner.
AB - In 1914, Russian advances led to between 340,000 and 600,000 refugees either fleeing or being expelled from Galicia. About half were Jewish, many of whom were children. The need to care for them was a major preoccupation of the Jewish leadership in Vienna and Prague. In these relief activities, a key role was taken by the Zionists, who saw such action as not only necessary to aid suffering Jews but also as a way to broaden their influence within the Jewish community. Throughout the war the Zionist activists invested considerable resources in providing rescue and assistance for Jewish refugee children from Galicia, whom they saw as potential future pillars of the nation, and in creating institutions in which these children would be educated in a modern and progressive manner.
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U2 - 10.3828/polin.2024.36.309
DO - 10.3828/polin.2024.36.309
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85186189959
SN - 0268-1056
VL - 36
SP - 309
EP - 326
JO - Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry
JF - Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry
ER -