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7. Ghetto benches

  • Yankev Leshchinsky (author)
  • Robert Brym (translator)
  • Eli Jany (translator)
Chapter of: The Last Years of Polish Jewry: Volume 2: The Permanent Pogrom, 1935–37(pp. 121–124)

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Title7. Ghetto benches
ContributorYankev Leshchinsky (author)
Robert Brym (translator)
Eli Jany (translator)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0342.07
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0342/chapters/10.11647/obp.0342.07
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightYankev Leshchinsky
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-09-16
Long abstractWidespread attacks on Warsaw’s Jews raged for two weeks in 1937. They were followed by a government commitment to institute ghetto benches throughout the Polish system of higher education. A numerus clausus on Jewish students had already sharply restricted Jewish admissions to institutions of higher education. In Warsaw, Jews constituted just 5 or 6% of admissions in the current academic year. At the Warsaw University of Technology’s faculty of engineering, Jewish admissions were less than 3% and Jewish admissions in the mechanics faculty were just over 1%. The situation was worse outside the capital. Separate benches for Jewish children are also being introduced in the public elementary schools. Many teachers were delighted when eight- or nine-year-old children assisted by dragging their Jewish classmates to separate seating. Meanwhile, the Jewish community has failed to form a united front of opposition to these developments. The leftist camp (Jewish and non-Jewish) is trying to form a united front of all opposition parties and groups, but nobody believes they will succeed in holding back the antisemitic tide. 26 October 1937.
Page rangepp. 121–124
Print length4 pages
LanguageEnglish (Translated_into)
Yiddish (Original)
Contributors

Yankev Leshchinsky

(author)

Robert Brym

(translator)
SD Clark Professor of Sociology Emeritus at University of Toronto
Associate of the Centre for Jewish Studies at University of Toronto
https://utoronto.academia.edu/RobertBrym

Robert Brym, FRSC, is SD Clark Professor of Sociology Emeritus and an Associate of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. His latest works include Robert Brym and Randal Schnoor, eds, The Ever-Dying People? Canada’s Jews in Comparative Perspective (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023) and “Jews and Israel 2024: Canadian Attitudes, Jewish Perceptions,” Canadian Jewish Studies/Études Juives Canadiennes (38: 2024), 6–89. For downloads of Brym’s published work, visit https://utoronto.academia.edu/RobertBrym

Eli Jany

(translator)
PhD student at University of Toronto

Eli Jany is a PhD student in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. He has translated poems by Sarah Reisen (In geveb, 12 May 2020, https://ingeveb.org/texts-and-translations/three-poems-reisen) and, with Robert Brym, co-translated volume 1 of The Last Years of Polish Jewry and “Jewish Economic Life in Yiddish Literature: Yitskhok Ber Levinzon and Yisroel Aksenfeld,” East European Jewish Affairs (53, 1: 2024), both by Yankev Leshchinsky.