The Jewish Population of the Czech Lands and Emigration: The Causes, Argumentation, and Consequences (Years 1918-1939). On Jewish Migration in the 20th Century
2022
Abstract
During the restless 20th century, Jews from Czech lands repeatedly faced emigration. While it was their voluntary choise during the period of first Czechoslovak Republic until the second half of the 1930s, concerning mainly Zionist, the emigration from respected Czechoslovakia in the course of the next years was a response to the worsening political, economic, and social possibilities.
The study focuses not only on the nature of these emigration waves, but mainly on a analysis of the debates on emigration conducted within the structured Jewish community.