Central Committee of Polish Jews
| Central Committee of Polish Jews Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce | |
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 Headquarters of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, holding the entire archives of CKŻP | |
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| Founded | 12 November 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 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
Berihah) was motivated by the destruction of Jewish life in Poland and anti-Jewish violence in Poland, the best known incident being the Kielce pogrom.[9]
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 Poale 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 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. Archived from the original on 15 January 2009. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
Source: J. Polak and J. Spyra, "Żydzi w Bielsku, Białej i okolicy". Bielsko-Biała, 1996.
- ISBN 83-85888-36-5.
- ^ Instytut Adama Mickiewicza. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8156-2969-6.
- ^ 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 3 December 2013. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
- ISBN 0-7425-1094-8. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
- ^ 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.
- ISBN 978-0-8156-5419-3.
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