Arnošt Frischer Explained

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. Frischer was ousted from his position after the 1948 Communist coup; he soon emigrated to the United Kingdom where he died in 1954.

Further reading

• Book: Láníček . Jan . Arnošt Frischer and the Jewish Politics of Early 20th-Century Europe . 2016 . Bloomsbury Academic . 978-1-4725-8589-9 . en.

Notes and References

1. Book: Láníček . Jan . Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews, 1938-48: Beyond Idealisation and Condemnation . 2013 . Springer . 978-1-137-31747-6 . 116 . en.