Arnošt_Frischer

Arnošt Frischer

Arnošt Frischer

20th century Jewish Czech politician

Arnošt Frischer (1887–1954) was a Czechoslovak Jewish politician who represented the Jewish community to the Czechoslovak government-in-exile. Much more so than other Jews, Frischer sympathized with the Czech National Social Party's aims of ethnic homogenization in postwar Czechoslovakia.[1]

After the war, he returned to Czechoslovakia and was elected chairman of the Council of the Jewish Communities in Bohemia and Moravia-Silesia.[2] Frischer was ousted from his position after the 1948 Communist coup;[3] he soon emigrated to the United Kingdom[4] where he died in 1954.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Láníček, Jan (2013). Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews, 1938-48: Beyond Idealisation and Condemnation. Springer. p. 116. ISBN 978-1-137-31747-6.
  2. [2]
    Láníček 2016, p. 147.
  3. [3]
    Láníček 2016, p. 177.
  4. [4]
    Láníček 2016, p. 187.
  5. [5]
    Láníček 2016, p. 189.

Further reading

  • Láníček, Jan (2016). Arnošt Frischer and the Jewish Politics of Early 20th-Century Europe. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-4725-8589-9.
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