Judeopolonia
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Judeopolonia - theory positing an alleged future Jewish domination of Poland. The idea had its roots in an 1858 book by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz was a Polish poet, playwright and statesman. He was a leading advocate for the Constitution of May 3, 1791.-Life:...

, but did not gain currency in anti-semitic tracts until around the turn of the century. In 1912, author Teodor Jeske-Choiński
Teodor Jeske-Choiński
Teodor Jeske-Choiński was a Polish intellectual, writer and historian, literature critic. A friend and opponent of Henryk Sienkiewicz. Sienkiewicz novels were focused rather on Polish history, whereas Jeske-Choińskis were looking at broader, European context...

 had Jews in his book rhetorically say: "If you do not allow us to establish a 'Judeo-Polonia state' and a nation of 'Judeo-Polish people,' we will strangle you."

This myth has been revived every so often in connection with the Bodenheimer plan (League of East European States
League of East European States
The League of East European States was a political idea conceived during World War I for the establishment of a buffer state within the Jewish Pale of Settlement of Russia, composed of the former Polish provinces annexed by Russia, which would be a de facto protectorate of the German Empire in...

), most notably by the author Andrzej Leszek Szcześniak in his books Judeopolonia (2001) and Judeopolonia II (2002).

Szczęśniak gives the name of Judeopolonia to League of East European States
League of East European States
The League of East European States was a political idea conceived during World War I for the establishment of a buffer state within the Jewish Pale of Settlement of Russia, composed of the former Polish provinces annexed by Russia, which would be a de facto protectorate of the German Empire in...

, a draft of separate Jewish nation-state, planned on the territory between Poland and Russia by Deutsches Komitee zur Befreiung der Russischen Juden
German Committee for Freeing of Russian Jews
The German Committee for the Freeing of Russian Jews was created in August, 1914 by Franz Oppenheimer, Adolf Friedman and Leo Motzkin to lobby for the socio-political liberation of Jewish people living in the Russian Empire and ensuring their protection from pogroms...

 in 1914. As such, the idea is different from Żydokomuna
Zydokomuna
Żydokomuna is a pejorative antisemitic stereotype which came into use between World Wars I and II, blaming Jews for the rise of communism in Poland, where communism was identified as part of a wider Jewish-led conspiracy to seize power....

, which is supposed Jewish-communist domination of non-partitioned Poland.
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