Nevi'im Rishonim Prophetae Priores

Verlag: American Joint Distribution Committee, Munich, München, Germany, 1947

Beschreibung

In Hebrew. Pages 351 to 660. First 350 pages are the separate Penateuch volume. Text block edges dyed pink. Pages yellowed. Translation of bottom of title page: "Approved by the Board of Directors for Education and Culture for Shearit Hapleita (The Surviving Remnant) in Germany, the Central Committee of the liberated Jews in the American Sector". . . Translation of the Hebrew on the bottom of last page: "Published in a limited number of copies for Jewish children in the Displaced Persons cams in Europe". . . Pages yellowed. Sh'erit ha-Pletah (Hebrew: 'the surviving remnant') is a biblical (Ezra 9:14 and 1 Chronicles 4:43) term referring to the Jewish refugees who survived the Holocaust. Hundreds of thousands of survivors spent several years after war¿s end in Displaced Persons (DP) camps in Germany, Austria, and Italy. As the German war effort collapsed, Jewish survivors were left on their own, on trains, by the sides of roads, and in concentration camps and death camps. At the time of Germany's unconditional surrender on 7 May 1945 there were some 6.5 to 7 million displaced persons in the Allied occupation zones, among them an estimated 55,000 to 60,000 Jews. The vast majority of non-Jewish DPs were repatriated in a matter of months. Not the Jews. The number of Jewish DPs subsequently grew manyfold as Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe migrated westward. More than 250,000 Jewish DPs resided in camps or communities in Germany, Austria, and Italy during the period from 1945 to 1952. In the first weeks after liberation, Allied military forces improvised relief in the form of shelter, food, and medical care. A large number of refugees were in critical condition as a result of malnutrition, abuse, and disease. Their shelter was abandoned barracks, hotels, former concentration camps, and private homes. Allied military commanders assumed responsibility for the safety and disposition of all displaced persons. The Allies provided for the DPs according to nationality, and initially did not recognize Jews as constituting a separate group. Consequently Jewish DPs sometimes found themselves housed in the same quarters with former Nazi collaborators. Also, the general policy of the Allied occupation forces was to repatriate DPs to their country of origin as soon as possible could be a death sentence for Jews. Nearly 90% of the approximately 200,000 Polish Jews who had survived the war in the Soviet Union chose to return to Poland under a Soviet-Polish repatriation agreement. But Jews returning to their erstwhile homes in Poland met with a generally hostile reception from their non-Jewish neighbors. Between fall 1944 and summer 1946 c. 600 Jews were murdered by Poles in anti-Jewish riots, including in Cracow, c. August 20, 1945; Sosnowiec, on October 25; and Lublin, on November 19. The most well-known pogrom was in Kielce on July 4, 1946, in which 42 Jews were killed. Poles who took over Jewish homes were loath to return them to the rightful owners who somehow managed to survive the Nazi death machine and came to reclaim them. The Polish solution was to murder the survivors. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 011088

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Nevi'im Rishonim Prophetae Priores

Verlag: American Joint Distribution Committee, Munich, München, Germany

Erscheinungsdatum: 1947

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket