A Minor Apocalypse by Robert Blobaum

Author:Robert Blobaum [Blobaum, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, World War I, Social History, Europe, Poland
ISBN: 9781501705236
Google: vL5OvgAACAAJ
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2017-01-15T22:26:20+00:00

Prylucki then added that he had many other formal complaints about sanitary regulations being used to cleanse “Christian districts” of Jews.138

Meanwhile, support from the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee for the distribution of relief and assistance in Warsaw’s Jewish community became an excuse for the Warsaw Citizens Committee and the City Administration to further restrict public funding. At the end of 1915, in response to requests to the committee from the “Ezra” Society for additional funding of its public kitchens, Gazeta Poranna called for Jewish organizations to turn over all donated funds, “including one million rubles from America,” to the Warsaw Citizens Committee.139 In the summer of 1916, Gazeta Poranna complained that even though Jews had important resources from a variety of sources at their disposal, including a recent donation of 186,000 rubles from America, “they never cease to demand and receive large sums for their needs from the city administration,” which “proves that the Jewish community is more privileged from a monetary standpoint and that the city administration is too quick to extend credits to the Jewish community, while simultaneously rejecting the necessary and positive requests of Christian institutions—and sentencing them to inactivity as a result of insufficient funds.”140 These were not simply the rantings of the Polish radical Right. In the summer of 1917 Drzewiecki, now the mayor, during a City Council budget debate, said that Jews were receiving financial help “from all over the world” and, therefore, did not need the city’s help.141 Despite being presented with evidence that following the U.S. declaration of war against the Central Powers, the money from American Jewish organizations to assist Warsaw’s Jews had come to an end, Drzewiecki restated his position: “We Poles have to take care of ourselves, since the entire world is taking care of Jews.”142 On the basis of such logic, the City Administration had earlier refused the extension of a 30,000-ruble monthly subvention to Jewish public kitchens, while continuing to support non-Jewish kitchens to the tune of 500,000 rubles per month.

FIGURE 9. Caricature of Jewish donations to and assistance from the Warsaw Citizens Committee. “Obrazek z Warszawy,” Mucha 18 (30 April 1915): 9. Biblioteka Narodowa.

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