Institutional autonomy of jews in Poland after world war II on the example of the cooperative movement

Abstract

The article presents the origins, development and liquidation of the Jewish cooperative movement in Poland after the Second World War It outlines the socio-political background, which contributed to the creation of a kind of national-cultural autonomy for the Jews, including one of its pillars – the cooperative movement The functioning of cooperative institutions was analyzed for the structure of the industry, distribution and their number, and the number of workers employed there I also assessed the role that their own cooperatives played in the reconstruction of post-war life of the Jewish population in Poland, both in the material as well as social and psychological fields, and also in the development of the cooperative movement in general.