Resisting Persecution | Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 1789207207 / ISBN 13: 9781789207200

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2020

Resisting Persecution | Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust | Thomas Pegelow Kaplan (u. a.) | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2020 | Berghahn Books | EAN 9781789207200 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 117821723

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Since antiquity, European Jewish diaspora communities have used formal appeals to secular and religious authorities to secure favors or protection. Such petitioning took on particular significance in modern dictatorships, often as the only tool left for voicing political opposition. During the Holocaust, tens of thousands of European Jews turned to individual and collective petitions in the face of state-sponsored violence. This volume offers the first extensive analysis of petitions authored by Jews in nations ruled by the Nazis and their allies. It demonstrates their underappreciated value as a historical source and reveals the many attempts of European Jews to resist intensifying persecution and actively struggle for survival.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Wolf Gruner is the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies, Professor of History and Founding Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research at the University of Southern California. He is the author of nine books on the Holocaust, including Jewish Forced Labor under the Nazis (2006) and the prize-winning The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia (English edition 2019, German original 2016).

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Titel: Resisting Persecution | Jews and Their ...
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Einband: Buch
Zustand: Neu