The Lower House and legislative chamber of the Polish Parliament. In the Sejm of the Second Republic of Poland (Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) from 1918 to 1939, many Jewish deputies defended the interests of Polish Jewry, which was heterogeneous and included some three million inhabitants. Basically loyal to the Polish state, they stood up for equal rights and protested against antis…
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Steffen, Katrin, “Sejm”, in: Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Online, Original German Language Edition: Enzyklopädie Jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur. Im Auftrag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig herausgegeben von Dan Diner. © J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart/Springer-Verlag GmbH Deutschland 2011–2017. Consulted online on 11 December 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2468-8894_ejhc_COM_0792>
First published online: 2017
First print edition: 20221116
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