"Uprooting the #Diaspora examines changes in #international, or rather #transnational, patterns of thinking about #Jewish belonging in two East-Central #European countries, #Poland and #Czechoslovakia. Its unique feature is that it cuts through three short but distinct historical periods: the #interwarperiod, the #Holocaust, and the early #postwar periods. Sarah A. Cramsey’s work shows how, gradually, between the years 1936-1946, a part of the transnational Jewish leadership, particularly those active in the #WorldJewishCongress, came to the conclusion that East-Central Europe could no longer be a home for its native Jewish communities. At the same time, the #author questions the basic #historical #teleology related to this problem: the idea that this conclusion was inevitable, even as early as the late 1930s or the beginning of the #SecondWorldWar."
https://ceureviewofbooks.com/review/jewish-belonging-in-east-central-europe/
