Apolinary Hartglas
Apolinary Hartglas | |
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Died | 7 March 1953 | (aged 69)
Alma mater | University of Warsaw |
Maksymilian Apolinary Hartglas (7 April 1883 – 7 March 1953) was a Zionist activist and one of the main political leaders of Polish Jews during the interwar period, a lawyer, a publicist, and a Sejm deputy from 1919 to 1930.
Biography
Maksymilian Apolinary Hartglas was born into a lawyer family from
After the
In December 1939, he managed to escape to
Political career
In 1919 he was elected by constituents of Biała Podlaska as a deputy to the
In 1920 he took part in the
Published works
In 1996, his memoirs were published posthumously in Poland under the title At the border of two worlds (Polish: Na pograniczu dwóch światów) (
I called my memoirs “At the border of two worlds” not because I had in mind the world of today and the eternal ever existing world but for a much more mundane reason. I, myself as a human being found myself at a border of the Jewish world and the Polish world. To elaborate, throughout my whole life, two forces, difficult to reconcile, strove within me: a Polish childhood and upbringing, an attachment to the Polish nation, its culture and its soil together with a self formed love for the Jewish nation, its suffering and troubles and the hope of its rebirth in its own homeland. My whole life I suffered a split within myself since there is no power that could have fused these two different souls. I loved both nations as a man and I was at times critical and angry at both of them: as a Jew I could not forget the wrongs that my people sometimes suffered in Poland (personally I have not suffered these) and as one assimilated into the Polish culture I shared some of the grief that even the best of Poles occasionally had towards the Jews. (Translated from Polish)
See also
References
- ^ Andrzej Krzysztof Kunert, Małgorzata Smogorzewska, ed. "Posłowie i senatorowie Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 1919-1939. Słownik biograficzny, tom II: E-J" (Delegates and senators of the Second Polish Republic 1919-1939, Biographical Dictionary, Vol II: E-J), Warszawa 2000
- ^ a b Jolanta Żyndul, "The Legal Practice of Apolinary Hartglas", Justice, The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, No. 30, Winter 2002, pg. 45 [1] Archived 2009-10-19 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 0253205115.
- ^ Yad Vashem, "Pinkas Hakehillot:“Biala Podlaska” - Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Poland, Volume VII", pgs. 84-89. [2]
- ^ Gershon David Hundert, The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, Yivo Institute for Jewish Research and Yale University Press, 2008. [3]
- ^ Robert Blobaum, "Antisemitism and its opponents in modern Poland", Cornell University Press, 2005, pg. 150 [4]
- ^ HOLOKAUST NA TERENIE REGIONU BIALSKOPODLASKIEGO: Życie społeczno - polityczne. [5] Archived 2013-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 978-83-86678-35-8.
- ^ Natalia Aleksiun, "Narratives under Siege: Polish-Jewish Relations and Jewish Historical Writings in Interwar Poland", The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University, 2003 [6]