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Anti-Jewish Gendered Violence in Poland, 1918- 1919

Autoři: Kutílek Jan

Rok: 2023

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Anti-Jewish Gendered Violence in Poland, 1918- 1919	The first months of the reborn Second Polish Republic witnessed brutal violence against the Jewish community. As a result of the fall of the centuries-old empires and the Polish-Ukrainian conflict, soldiers and citizens committed atrocities against the local Jews. Gender-based violence had also become common practice during the period. This specific type of violence became a deliberate expression of power over Jews in the symbolic and physical sense of domination. Since it was carried out in public, it was an expression of domination over the victim and the other community members who were forced to watch. Drawing upon the research of Irina Astahkevich and others, the paper argues that performative character turns gendered violence into a practice with immeasurable consequences as it causes trauma to the entire community. It was not only intended to dishonor women but also to humiliate and degrade men who are unable to protect the women and thus demasculinize them. In particular, rape was shrouded in a cloak of shame and fear of social rejection of the victims and their families.