A pragmatic alliance : Jewish-Lithuanian political cooperation at the beginning of the 20th century / edited by Vladas Sirutavičius and Darius Staliūnas
Published
Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2011
Lithuanian Jewry and the Lithuanian national movement / Mordechai Zalkin -- Collaboration of Lithuanians and Jews during the elections to the first and the second Dumas / Darius Staliūnas -- Lithuanians in Jewish politics of the late imperial period / Vladimir Levin -- Lithuania?: but which?: the changing political attitude of the Jewish political elite in East Central Europe toward emerging Lithuania, 1915-1919 / Marcos Silber -- The Zionist priorities in the struggle for Lite, 1916-1918 / Egle Bendikaite -- Lithuanian administration and the participation of Jews in the elections to the constituent Seimas / Vladas Sirutavičius -- Between Poland and Lithuania: Jews and the Vilnius question, 1918-1925 / Theodore R. Weeks
Summary
Discusses the political cooperation between Jews and Lithuanians in the Tsarist Empire from the last decades of the 19th century until the early 1920s. These years saw the transformation of both Jewish and Lithuanian political life. Within the Jewish community, the previously dominant integrationists were now challenged both by those who believed that the Jews were not a religious but an ethnic or protonationalist group and those who believed that only with the abolition of capitalism and the establishment of a socialist state would Jewish integration be possible. Among the Lithuanians, the emergence of a modern national identity became increasingly prevalent
