A Cry, A Question: Birth Control and Abortion Debates in the Jewish Press

• In Event: Jewish Belonging in the Second Polish Republic

Abstract

During the 1920s and 1930s, the thriving Polish-Jewish press served as a space where issues of citizenship and belonging in the new Polish nation could freely be discussed. Among the frequently debated issues concerning Poland were birth control and abortion. The authors and activists writing about this topic saw it as vital to the health and economics of the country, but also as an issue vital to Polish Jewish citizens specifically. In the pages of Ewa, Nasz Przegląd, and Haynt, among others, Jewish authors placed themselves at the vanguard of the health of the Polish nation, asserting their place in the building of the republic.

Author

• Morgan Rose Morales, UNC at Chapel Hill