Poté. Postoj a přístup k Židům v českých zemích po druhé světové válce (1945-1947/1953)

Mgr. Petr Sedlák, Ph.D.

Doctoral thesis

Aftermath, an Aproach and Attitude towards Jewish population in Bohemia lands, 1945-1953.

Abstract:

Práce pojednává o postoji a přístupu české společnosti a československého státu k Židům v českých zemích v druhé polovině 40. let 20. století, během které se tento postoj a přístup postupně ustálil vzhledem k monopolizaci státní moci komunistickou stranou v takzvaný antisionismus. Práce se soustředí na skutečnosti spojené s tímto postojem a přístupem především na první dva poválečné roky v rovině ideologické, smýšlení veřejnosti a politické.

Abstract:

Thesis concern story of Authorities and Public approach to the Jewish survivors in postwar Czechoslovakia (Bohemian lands). Thesis concerns the most important areas in which approach to the matters of Jewish survivors is shown up in practise typicaly. It is a solution of citizenship position of Jews coming from non-Czech background, advancing Jewish survivors with priviliges among other victims of war, negotiation about the property left by Jewish internees at Terezin ghetto and question of giving survivors their families and communities belongings back. The practical approach to the Jewish matters in three perspectives follows. First, the connection between ideology set up in Czechoslovakia as an official one and broader theoretical understanding the position of Jewish minority in the society which was called ,,Jewish question“. Second there is an analyse sources of thinking about Jews among the Czech public as it could be real with the dramatic changes in society because of its experience with years of economic insecurity and existentional endangerment during the Nazi occupation. Than thesis focus the political background which influenced continuously an approach to the Jewish matters very effictively both in domestic and internatiol level. After the Communist coup in the country in February 1948 Moscow antagonized new State of Israel and hunt for victims during inter-power struggles in the Soviet bloc had started. An ideology of Anti-Zionism is introduced to blame any carried human and moral help to Jewish survivors after the WWII as a result of broad and smart Zionist conspiracy of Slansky and other high Communist officials of Jewish origin in Prague trial of 1952.

Keywords

Židé, české země, 1945-1948, antisemitismus, antisionismus, historiografie židovských dějin

Language used: Czech

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 3. 11. 2008

Thesis defence

• Date of defence: 22. 1. 2009
• Supervisor: prof. PhDr. Jiří Malíř, CSc.
• Reader: prof. PhDr. Eduard Kubů, CSc., doc. PhDr. Blanka Soukupová, CSc.

Masaryk University

Faculty of Arts

Doctoral programme / field:
Historical Sciences / Czech History