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The '''Central Committee of Polish Jews''' also referred to as the '''Central Committee of Jews in Poland''' and abbreviated CKŻP, ({{lang-pl|Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce}}, {{lang-yi|צענטראל קאמיטעט פון די יידן אין פוילן}}; [[Yiddish orthography#The Yiddish alphabet|<small>tr</small>]]:''Centraler Komitet fun di Jidn in Pojln'') was a state-sponsored political representation of [[Jews]] in [[Poland]] at the end of [[World War II]].<ref name="Wiewióra">{{cite web | url=http://www.olszowka.most.org.pl/zydzi05.htm | title=Struktura organizacyjna społeczności żydowskiej w Polsce po II wojnie światowej. | publisher=Stowarzyszenie OLSZÓWKA, [[Bielsko-Biała]] | accessdate=May 9, 2011 | author=Dorota Wiewióra | quote=Source: J. Polak and J. Spyra, "Żydzi w Bielsku, Białej i okolicy". Bielsko-Biała, 1996.}}</ref> It was established on November 12, 1944, as the successor of the Provisional Central Committee of Polish Jews formed a month earlier under the umbrella of the communist [[Polish Committee of National Liberation]] (PKWN). The CKŻP provided care and assistance to Jews who survived [[The Holocaust in Poland|the Holocaust]]. It legally represented all CKŻP-registered [[Polish Jews]] in their dealings with the new government and its agencies.<ref name="Stankowski">{{cite book | publisher=[[Żydowski Instytut Historyczny]], [[Warsaw]] | title=Studia z historii Żydów w Polsce po 1945 roku | year=2000 | author=Albert Stankowski, with August Grabski and Grzegorz Berendt | pages=107–111 | isbn=83-85888-36-5}}<!--| accessdate=May 9, 2011 --></ref> It existed until 1950 when, together with the ''Jewish Cultural Society'', representatives of CKŻP founded the ''Socio-Cultural Association of Jews in Poland''.<ref name="sztetl.org" |
The '''Central Committee of Polish Jews''' also referred to as the '''Central Committee of Jews in Poland''' and abbreviated CKŻP, ({{lang-pl|Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce}}, {{lang-yi|צענטראל קאמיטעט פון די יידן אין פוילן}}; [[Yiddish orthography#The Yiddish alphabet|<small>tr</small>]]:''Centraler Komitet fun di Jidn in Pojln'') was a state-sponsored political representation of [[Jews]] in [[Poland]] at the end of [[World War II]].<ref name="Wiewióra">{{cite web | url=http://www.olszowka.most.org.pl/zydzi05.htm | title=Struktura organizacyjna społeczności żydowskiej w Polsce po II wojnie światowej. | publisher=Stowarzyszenie OLSZÓWKA, [[Bielsko-Biała]] | accessdate=May 9, 2011 | author=Dorota Wiewióra | quote=Source: J. Polak and J. Spyra, "Żydzi w Bielsku, Białej i okolicy". Bielsko-Biała, 1996.}}</ref> It was established on November 12, 1944, as the successor of the Provisional Central Committee of Polish Jews formed a month earlier under the umbrella of the communist [[Polish Committee of National Liberation]] (PKWN). The CKŻP provided care and assistance to Jews who survived [[The Holocaust in Poland|the Holocaust]]. It legally represented all CKŻP-registered [[Polish Jews]] in their dealings with the new government and its agencies.<ref name="Stankowski">{{cite book | publisher=[[Żydowski Instytut Historyczny]], [[Warsaw]] | title=Studia z historii Żydów w Polsce po 1945 roku | year=2000 | author=Albert Stankowski, with August Grabski and Grzegorz Berendt | pages=107–111 | isbn=83-85888-36-5}}<!--| accessdate=May 9, 2011 --></ref> It existed until 1950 when, together with the ''Jewish Cultural Society'', representatives of CKŻP founded the ''Socio-Cultural Association of Jews in Poland''.<ref name="sztetl.org">{{cite web | url=https://sztetl.org.pl/pl/slownik/centralny-komitet-zydow-w-polsce-ckzp | title=Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP) | publisher=[[Instytut Adama Mickiewicza]] | accessdate=May 9, 2011}}</ref> |
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The Committee was instrumental in organizing and implementing the Jewish [[aliyah]] efforts to [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate for Palestine]], and from mid May 1948, to the newly formed State of [[Israel]].<ref name=D-H>Devorah Hakohen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=hCw6v0TFhdMC&pg=PA70&dq=%22Poland+opened+its+gates+to+Jewish+emigration.%22&hl=en&ei=vZPlTILoE8uUnAey5NGjDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Poland%20opened%20its%20gates%20to%20Jewish%20emigration.%22&f=false ''Immigrants in turmoil: mass immigration to Israel and its repercussions...''] Syracuse University Press, 2003 - 325 pages. Page 70. {{ISBN|0-8156-2969-9}}</ref> The workers of CKŻP registered 86,000 survivors in January 1946 from across the prewar [[Polish Second Republic]].<ref name="Kochavi-175" /> By the end of summer, the number Jews who signed up had risen to about 205,000–210,000 (240,000 registrations with over 30,000 duplicates).<ref name="yivo.org" /> Well over 100,000 refugees (or, about 180,000 according to [[David Engel (historian)|Engel]]), many with working knowledge of [[Yiddish]], came to [[Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa|PRL]] from the [[Soviet Union]] thanks to a Polish–Soviet repatriation agreement.<ref name="Ther-Siljak">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oGmTs2SceAgC&pg=PA137&dq=%22agreements+on+the%22+%22mutual+evacuation+of+citizens%22&hl=en&ei=1MDKTYv9F6TmiALz3_CPBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CFUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22agreements%20on%20the%22%20%22mutual%20evacuation%20of%20citizens%22&f=false | title=Redrawing nations: ethnic cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944-1948 | publisher=Rowman & Littlefield | year=2001 | accessdate=May 11, 2011 | author=Philipp Ther, Ana Siljak | page=138 | isbn=0-7425-1094-8}}</ref> [[Marian Spychalski|Gen. Spychalski]] signed a decree allowing them to leave Poland without visas or exit permits. Poland was the only [[Eastern Bloc]] country to do so.<ref name=D-H /> By the spring of 1947, helped by CKŻP over 150,000 Jews emigrated (additional number, outside of that period).<ref name="Kochavi-175">{{cite web|last=Aleksiun|first=Natalia|title=Beriḥah|url=http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/printarticle.aspx?id=219|publisher=YIVO|quote=Suggested reading: Arieh J. Kochavi, "Britain and the Jewish Exodus...," Polin 7 (1992): pp. 161–175}}</ref><ref name="yivo.org" /><ref name="Lukas">Richard C. Lukas, [https://books.google.com/books?id=lz9obsxmuW4C&pg=PA13&dq=%22The+estimates+of+Jewish+survivors+in+Poland,%22&hl=en&ei=hlYATfrrKMj4sgbE4fXyDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22The%20estimates%20of%20Jewish%20survivors%20in%20Poland%2C%22&f=false ''Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust''] University Press of Kentucky 1989 - 201 pages. Page 13; also in Richard C. Lukas, ''The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1944'', University Press of Kentucky 1986 - 300 pages.</ref> To secure their release, CKŻP collected group testimonies, nevertheless, the Polish decree was easily approved by the Kremlin, seeking to undermine the British influence in the Middle East.<ref name="yivo.org">{{cite web | url=http://www.yivo.org/pdf/poland.pdf | title=Poland. Liberation, Reconstruction, and Flight (1944-1947) | accessdate=May 12, 2011 | author=[[David Engel (historian)|David Engel]] | publisher=[[YIVO]] | deadurl=yes | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203033626/http://www.yivo.org/pdf/poland.pdf | archivedate=December 3, 2013 | df= }}</ref> The emigration of Jews (known as [[Berihah]]) was motivated primarily by the destruction of Jewish life in |
The Committee was instrumental in organizing and implementing the Jewish [[aliyah]] efforts to [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate for Palestine]], and from mid May 1948, to the newly formed State of [[Israel]].<ref name=D-H>Devorah Hakohen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=hCw6v0TFhdMC&pg=PA70&dq=%22Poland+opened+its+gates+to+Jewish+emigration.%22&hl=en&ei=vZPlTILoE8uUnAey5NGjDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Poland%20opened%20its%20gates%20to%20Jewish%20emigration.%22&f=false ''Immigrants in turmoil: mass immigration to Israel and its repercussions...''] Syracuse University Press, 2003 - 325 pages. Page 70. {{ISBN|0-8156-2969-9}}</ref> The workers of CKŻP registered 86,000 survivors in January 1946 from across the prewar [[Polish Second Republic]].<ref name="Kochavi-175" /> By the end of summer, the number Jews who signed up had risen to about 205,000–210,000 (240,000 registrations with over 30,000 duplicates).<ref name="yivo.org" /> Well over 100,000 refugees (or, about 180,000 according to [[David Engel (historian)|Engel]]), many with working knowledge of [[Yiddish]], came to [[Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa|PRL]] from the [[Soviet Union]] thanks to a Polish–Soviet repatriation agreement.<ref name="Ther-Siljak">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oGmTs2SceAgC&pg=PA137&dq=%22agreements+on+the%22+%22mutual+evacuation+of+citizens%22&hl=en&ei=1MDKTYv9F6TmiALz3_CPBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CFUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22agreements%20on%20the%22%20%22mutual%20evacuation%20of%20citizens%22&f=false | title=Redrawing nations: ethnic cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944-1948 | publisher=Rowman & Littlefield | year=2001 | accessdate=May 11, 2011 | author=Philipp Ther, Ana Siljak | page=138 | isbn=0-7425-1094-8}}</ref> [[Marian Spychalski|Gen. Spychalski]] signed a decree allowing them to leave Poland without visas or exit permits. Poland was the only [[Eastern Bloc]] country to do so.<ref name=D-H /> By the spring of 1947, helped by CKŻP over 150,000 Jews emigrated (additional number, outside of that period).<ref name="Kochavi-175">{{cite web|last=Aleksiun|first=Natalia|title=Beriḥah|url=http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/printarticle.aspx?id=219|publisher=YIVO|quote=Suggested reading: Arieh J. Kochavi, "Britain and the Jewish Exodus...," Polin 7 (1992): pp. 161–175}}</ref><ref name="yivo.org" /><ref name="Lukas">Richard C. Lukas, [https://books.google.com/books?id=lz9obsxmuW4C&pg=PA13&dq=%22The+estimates+of+Jewish+survivors+in+Poland,%22&hl=en&ei=hlYATfrrKMj4sgbE4fXyDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22The%20estimates%20of%20Jewish%20survivors%20in%20Poland%2C%22&f=false ''Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust''] University Press of Kentucky 1989 - 201 pages. Page 13; also in Richard C. Lukas, ''The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1944'', University Press of Kentucky 1986 - 300 pages.</ref> To secure their release, CKŻP collected group testimonies, nevertheless, the Polish decree was easily approved by the Kremlin, seeking to undermine the British influence in the Middle East.<ref name="yivo.org">{{cite web | url=http://www.yivo.org/pdf/poland.pdf | title=Poland. Liberation, Reconstruction, and Flight (1944-1947) | accessdate=May 12, 2011 | author=[[David Engel (historian)|David Engel]] | publisher=[[YIVO]] | deadurl=yes | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203033626/http://www.yivo.org/pdf/poland.pdf | archivedate=December 3, 2013 | df= }}</ref> The emigration of Jews (known as [[Berihah]]) was motivated primarily by the destruction of Jewish life across the already redrawn Eastern Europe in as much as the [[Raids on communist prisons in Poland (1944–1946)|raging civil war on Polish lands]] against the Soviet takeover. Meanwhile, the efforts of a strong Polish-Jewish lobby at the [[Jewish Agency for Israel]] created opportunities for a higher standard of living and special privileges for the immigrants from Poland. [[Yitzhak Raphael]], director of the Immigration Department – who lobbied on behalf of Polish refugees – insisted on their preferential treatment in Israel.<ref name=D-H>Devorah Hakohen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=hCw6v0TFhdMC&pg=PA70&dq=%22Poland+opened+its+gates+to+Jewish+emigration.%22&hl=en&ei=vZPlTILoE8uUnAey5NGjDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Poland%20opened%20its%20gates%20to%20Jewish%20emigration.%22&f=false ''Immigrants in turmoil: mass immigration to Israel and its repercussions...''] Syracuse University Press, 2003 - 325 pages. Page 70. {{ISBN|0-8156-2969-9}}</ref> |
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==Organization== |
==Organization== |
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The member composition of the Central Committee was drafted in June 1946 on the basis of a compromise between the already functioning Jewish political parties legalized in the Soviet-controlled [[People's Republic of Poland|People's Republic]]. Accordingly: six seats were given to Jewish communists (the Jewish faction of the [[Polish Workers' Party]]), four seats to [[General Jewish Labour Bund in Poland|Bund]] representatives, four seats to [[Ihud HaKvutzot VeHaKibbutzim|Ihud]], three seats to [[Poale Zion]] Left (leftist faction of Workers of Zion), three to [[Poale Zion]] Right, and one place to [[Hashomer Hatzair]]. The CKŻP had established nine provincial and seven regional chapters across Poland. [[Białystok]] branch of the Central Committee was run by [[Szymon Datner]]. The Committee was chaired by Emil Sommerstein of Ihud, who was replaced in 1946 by [[Adolf Berman]] from Poale Zion Left. Berman was succeeded in 1949 by Hersh Smolar, official representative of the [[Polish United Workers' Party]] in CKŻP. The Central Committee of Polish Jews was discontinued on 29 October 1950 |
The member composition of the Central Committee was drafted in June 1946 on the basis of a compromise between the already functioning Jewish political parties legalized in the Soviet-controlled [[People's Republic of Poland|People's Republic]]. Accordingly: six seats were given to Jewish communists (the Jewish faction of the [[Polish Workers' Party]]), four seats to [[General Jewish Labour Bund in Poland|Bund]] representatives, four seats to [[Ihud HaKvutzot VeHaKibbutzim|Ihud]], three seats to [[Poale Zion]] Left (leftist faction of Workers of Zion), three to [[Poale Zion]] Right, and one place to [[Hashomer Hatzair]]. The CKŻP had established nine provincial and seven regional chapters across Poland. [[Białystok]] branch of the Central Committee was run by [[Szymon Datner]]. The Committee was chaired by Emil Sommerstein of Ihud, who was replaced in 1946 by [[Adolf Berman]] from Poale Zion Left. Berman was succeeded in 1949 by Hersh Smolar, official representative of the [[Polish United Workers' Party]] in CKŻP. The Central Committee of Polish Jews was discontinued on 29 October 1950 amidst the wave of accusations of [[ethnic nationalism]] by some Jewish officials representing the [[Stalinism|Stalinists]] government; and, a new organization was formed, ''Towarzystwo Społeczno-Kulturalne Żydów w Polsce'' (TSKŻ), which at present, is the biggest Jewish organization in Poland with 17 regional chapters.<ref name="sztetl.org" /> |
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==Notes and references== |
==Notes and references== |
Revision as of 08:05, 30 May 2019
Central Committee of Polish Jews Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce | |
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Founded | November 12, 1944 |
Reformed | 1950, as Towarzystwo Społeczno-Kulturalne Żydów w Polsce (pl) |
Location | Warsaw |
The Central Committee of Polish Jews also referred to as the Central Committee of Jews in Poland and abbreviated CKŻP, (Polish: Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, Yiddish: צענטראל קאמיטעט פון די יידן אין פוילן; tr:Centraler Komitet fun di Jidn in Pojln) was a state-sponsored political representation of Jews in Poland at the end of World War II.[1] It was established on November 12, 1944, as the successor of the Provisional Central Committee of Polish Jews formed a month earlier under the umbrella of the communist Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN). The CKŻP provided care and assistance to Jews who survived the Holocaust. It legally represented all CKŻP-registered Polish Jews in their dealings with the new government and its agencies.[2] It existed until 1950 when, together with the Jewish Cultural Society, representatives of CKŻP founded the Socio-Cultural Association of Jews in Poland.[3]
The Committee was instrumental in organizing and implementing the Jewish aliyah efforts to British Mandate for Palestine, and from mid May 1948, to the newly formed State of Israel.[4] The workers of CKŻP registered 86,000 survivors in January 1946 from across the prewar Polish Second Republic.[5] By the end of summer, the number Jews who signed up had risen to about 205,000–210,000 (240,000 registrations with over 30,000 duplicates).[6] Well over 100,000 refugees (or, about 180,000 according to Engel), many with working knowledge of Yiddish, came to PRL from the Soviet Union thanks to a Polish–Soviet repatriation agreement.[7] Gen. Spychalski signed a decree allowing them to leave Poland without visas or exit permits. Poland was the only Eastern Bloc country to do so.[4] By the spring of 1947, helped by CKŻP over 150,000 Jews emigrated (additional number, outside of that period).[5][6][8] To secure their release, CKŻP collected group testimonies, nevertheless, the Polish decree was easily approved by the Kremlin, seeking to undermine the British influence in the Middle East.[6] The emigration of Jews (known as Berihah) was motivated primarily by the destruction of Jewish life across the already redrawn Eastern Europe in as much as the raging civil war on Polish lands against the Soviet takeover. Meanwhile, the efforts of a strong Polish-Jewish lobby at the Jewish Agency for Israel created opportunities for a higher standard of living and special privileges for the immigrants from Poland. Yitzhak Raphael, director of the Immigration Department – who lobbied on behalf of Polish refugees – insisted on their preferential treatment in Israel.[4]
Organization
The member composition of the Central Committee was drafted in June 1946 on the basis of a compromise between the already functioning Jewish political parties legalized in the Soviet-controlled People's Republic. Accordingly: six seats were given to Jewish communists (the Jewish faction of the Polish Workers' Party), four seats to Bund representatives, four seats to Ihud, three seats to Poale Zion Left (leftist faction of Workers of Zion), three to Poale Zion Right, and one place to Hashomer Hatzair. The CKŻP had established nine provincial and seven regional chapters across Poland. Białystok branch of the Central Committee was run by Szymon Datner. The Committee was chaired by Emil Sommerstein of Ihud, who was replaced in 1946 by Adolf Berman from Poale Zion Left. Berman was succeeded in 1949 by Hersh Smolar, official representative of the Polish United Workers' Party in CKŻP. The Central Committee of Polish Jews was discontinued on 29 October 1950 amidst the wave of accusations of ethnic nationalism by some Jewish officials representing the Stalinists government; and, a new organization was formed, Towarzystwo Społeczno-Kulturalne Żydów w Polsce (TSKŻ), which at present, is the biggest Jewish organization in Poland with 17 regional chapters.[3]
Notes and references
- ^ Dorota Wiewióra. "Struktura organizacyjna społeczności żydowskiej w Polsce po II wojnie światowej". Stowarzyszenie OLSZÓWKA, Bielsko-Biała. Retrieved May 9, 2011.
Source: J. Polak and J. Spyra, "Żydzi w Bielsku, Białej i okolicy". Bielsko-Biała, 1996.
- ^ Albert Stankowski, with August Grabski and Grzegorz Berendt (2000). Studia z historii Żydów w Polsce po 1945 roku. Żydowski Instytut Historyczny, Warsaw. pp. 107–111. ISBN 83-85888-36-5.
- ^ a b "Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP)". Instytut Adama Mickiewicza. Retrieved May 9, 2011.
- ^ a b c Devorah Hakohen, Immigrants in turmoil: mass immigration to Israel and its repercussions... Syracuse University Press, 2003 - 325 pages. Page 70. ISBN 0-8156-2969-9
- ^ a b Aleksiun, Natalia. "Beriḥah". YIVO.
Suggested reading: Arieh J. Kochavi, "Britain and the Jewish Exodus...," Polin 7 (1992): pp. 161–175
- ^ a b c David Engel. "Poland. Liberation, Reconstruction, and Flight (1944-1947)" (PDF). YIVO. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 3, 2013. Retrieved May 12, 2011.
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- ^ Richard C. Lukas, Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust University Press of Kentucky 1989 - 201 pages. Page 13; also in Richard C. Lukas, The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1944, University Press of Kentucky 1986 - 300 pages.