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Anti-Jewish violence in Czechoslovakia (1918–1920)

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33: 76:, especially early on in the war, arousing the hatred of Czech patriots. Also, Jews were blamed for profiteering and black marketing during the wartime shortages. Another cause of the violence was the breakdown in Habsburg authority and weakness of the new Czechoslovak state, which had not yet established a 153:
The violence continued from the disintegration of the Habsburg monarchy to the Paris peace treaties signed in 1919 and 1920. It was not nearly as severe as in Poland and Ukraine, where tens of thousands of Jews were murdered. After 1920, the violence died down. Interwar Czechoslovakia was the safest
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portrayed Czechoslovakia as a liberal and tolerant country, relatively free of the antisemitism that plagued neighboring countries. A Czech Agrarian newspaper claimed that the violence was engineered by
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The main accusations leveled against Jews in Slovakia were that they were Hungarian-speakers and agents of the hated Hungarian state, from which Slovakia was trying to break free. In
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on 3–4 December. Jewish-owned houses and shops were robbed, the synagogue and community offices were vandalized, and two Jews were murdered. Eventually the army intervened.
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expressed concern about the violence, noting that it was "in complete contrast to the avowed Czech policy in Paris, and also to the public utterance of Minister Beneš".
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8,880 in 1920). Bands of former soldiers roamed the countryside looking for shops to rob, most of which belonged to Jews due to pre-existing economic patterns.
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Many Czech historians have presented the violence as an aberration on the otherwise tolerant and democratic First Czechoslovak Republic.
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and least antisemitic country in central Europe for Jews, and it was the only one to retain a democratic government into the mid-1930s.
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In December 1918, the most severe pogroms occurred in Bohemia and Moravia. The worst was in
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called Holešov the "last pogrom" and the end of a dark era. Others, including
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was unleashed against Jews and their property, especially stores.
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Wave of anti-Jewish rioting and violence in Czechoslovakia
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In Slovakia, violence occurred in November 1918. In
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Post-World War I anti-Jewish violence in Czechoslovakia

Holešov
World War I
Czechoslovakia
anti-Jewish rioting and violence
Bohemia
Moravia
Habsburgs
monopoly on violence
Považská Bystrica
Žilina
Czechoslovak crowns
US$
Holešov
Edvard Beneš
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Paris Peace Conference
Chaim Weizmann
Czechoslovak myth
Zdeňek Fišer
Michal Frankl
Miloslav Szabó
Czechoslovak myth


Láníček 2013


Klein-Pejšová 2015

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