Talk:Kielce pogrom (1918)

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POV, the article include only ONE work so it's one point of view. We need more works to make it clearly fair.

--Krzyzowiec (talk) 03:48, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikisource is meant to contain large sources and not to replace references. Your removal of the refs makes it necessary to read the full report just to know what in the article might be sourced. You might want to consider changing the original ref to reference the wikisource instead of Google. —Preceding unsigned comment added by KosherJava (talk • contribs) 02:29, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Regrettably, I do not understand Hebrew nor Yiddish, and therefore, am unable to conduct my own research in any of the archives pertaining to political aspirations of some Jewish communities in prewar Poland. However, upon the reading of the American official report from that period, quoted in this article, the question arises as to whether the Jewish political activists in urban centers such as Kielce thought of establishing an independent Jewish state on the territory of Partitioned Poland. The rally in Kielce attended by many hundreds of Jews had been described by Morgenthau as a national rally, no less. If that is true, than the political aims of Poles and Jews at the conclusion of World War One must have been strikingly different if not outright opposing. Henry Morgenthau, Sr. Report states:

1. Kielce, Nov. 11, 1918.

Shortly after the evacuation of the Austrian troops, the Jews of this city secured permission from the local authorities to hold a meeting in the Polski Theatre. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss Jewish national aspiration.

What does "Jewish national aspiration" mean, I ask? Why is the report so vague in its description? Does it mean national independence? Perhaps the answer could be found among at least some Jewish archives. Morgenthau Report speaks also about: "the nationalist declarations of some of the Jewish organizations which desire to establish cultural autonomy financially supported by the States." What were the Jewish "nationalist declarations," so briefly mentioned, all about? What did they say specifically? — Matalea (talk) 17:07, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]