After the fall : attitudes toward Jews in post-1989 Poland

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title:	After the fall : attitudes toward Jews in post-1989 Poland
author:	Ambrosewicz-Jacobs Jolanta , Orla-Bukowska Annamaria
journal title:	Nationalities Papers
volume:	26
issue:	2
date of publication :	1998
pages:	265-282
ISSN:	0090-5992
eISSN:	1465-3923
DOI:	10.1080/00905999808408563
language:	English
journal language:	English
abstract in English:	The Enlightenment instilled European and European-rooted societies with certain fundamental principles which are generally taken for granted; among the most important are democracy, education, and human equality. Not all of mankind experienced this period of cultural history, but in those areas that the Enlightenment touched, a tautology functions in the collective subconscious that where there is democracy and where there is an educated people, there will be equality. Western nations - their politicians, scholars, and common folk alike - believe that a preordained consequence of the system of democratic rule in a developed country is open-mindedness and tolerance; in contrast, it is generally maintained that non-democratic governments where knowledge is evidently censored and controlled, such as those of the former Soviet Bloc, produce narrow-mindedness and intolerance.
affiliation:	Wydział Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politycznych : Instytut Europeistyki
type:	journal article
subtype:	academic paper

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