During the interwar period in Poland, many young Jewish women who were born before the outbreak of World War I started to embrace modern, feminist, and nationalistic ideologies, very much like their Polish analogues. Dr. Jolanta Mickute, Prins Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, addresses the responses that this young, interwar generation of Jewish women had to Zionist ideology. In particular, Mickute explores Zionist women’s political structures and discourses on culture, ethnicity, and sexuality. While building a broader picture of Jewish women in interwar Poland, her analysis engages with points of intersection among this Zionist cohort, the Polish state, Polish-Jewish society at large, and ethnic Polish women.
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