Africans and the Holocaust: Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples / Edition 1

by Edward Kissi

Overview

This book is an original and comparative study of reactions in West and East Africa to the persecution and attempted annihilation of Jews in Europe and in former German colonies in sub-Saharan Africa during the Second World War.

An intellectual and diplomatic history of World War II and the Holocaust, Africans and the Holocaust looks at the period from the perspectives of the colonized subjects of the Gold Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Tanganyika, and Uganda, as well as the sovereign peoples of Liberia and Ethiopia, who wrestled with the social and moral questions that the war and the Holocaust raised. The five main chapters of the book explore the pre-Holocaust history of relations between Jews and Africans in West and East Africa, perceptions of Nazism in both regions, opinions of World War II, interpretations of the Holocaust, and responses of the colonized and sovereign peoples of West and East Africa to efforts by Great Britain to resettle certain categories of Jewish refugees from Europe in the two regions before and during the Holocaust.

This book will be of use to students and scholars of African history, Holocaust and Jewish studies, and international or global history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367195373
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/18/2019
Series:	Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Africa
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edward Kissi is an associate professor in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of South Florida, United States.

Table of Contents

1. Jews in East and West Africa before the Holocaust 2. Africans and Nazism 3. Africans and World War II 4. Africans and the Holocaust 5. African and British Proposals on Jewish refugees