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Document Summary
Two main points: the lives of jews prior to the holocaust were anything but frozen in time; they were characterized by dynamic change, anti-semitism was not the defining feature of jewish life, nor were jews shaped by it. It did not fully determine the lives of jews in the 1920-30s. They felt they had the power to shape their own destinies. Nationalism and democracy could be reconciled but huge problem: the treaty of. Paris in 1919 may have given 60 million people a state of their own, but it turned. 25 million people in europe into minorities: borders created in inter-war europe don"t create ethnic homogeneity results in huge amount of ethnic diversity, therefore problems, especially when compounded with troubling economies, etc. Leads to the collapse of the democracies. By 1920s, most had become authitorian and democracy had failed. The jews as a national threat: two case studies. Hungary losing side of the war, lost large amount of land.