Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1941-1942

Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1941-1942

Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1941-1942

Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1941-1942

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Overview

Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1941–1942, Volume III sheds light on the personal and public lives of Jews during a period when Hitler’s triumph in Europe seemed assured, and the mass murder of millions had begun in earnest. The primary source material presented here makes this volume an essential research tool and curriculum companion.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780759122581
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Publication date: 04/18/2013
Series: Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context , #3
Pages: 584
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Jürgen Matthäus is the director of the Applied Research Division at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Emil Kerenji is an applied research scholar at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Jan Lambertz is a historian and served on the research team of the Independent Historians Commission on the Role of the German Foreign Office during National Socialism and after 1945. Leah Wolfson is a senior program officer and applied research scholar at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Table of Contents

Volume Introduction: From Persecution to Annihilation Part I: Jews and the Expansion of the German Empire: January to June 1941 Chapter 1: Facing Increased Pressure Chapter 2: Struggling in the Lódz and Warsaw Ghettos Chapter 3: Confronting New Challenges Part II: Escalating Violence: June 1941 to July 1942 Chapter 4: Mass Murder in the Occupied Soviet Union and Deportations to “the East” Chapter 5: Widening Circles of Persecution Chapter 6: In the Grip of Germany’s Allies Part III: Beyond Compliance and Resistance: Interactions after June1941 Chapter 7: Elites and Ordinary Jews Chapter 8: Support Networks Chapter 9: Deference, Evasion, or Revolt? Part IV: Glimpsing the Abyss: Patterns and Perceptions Chapter 10: The Role of Religion Chapter 11: Limits of Language Chapter 12: Making Sense of the Unthinkable List of Documents Bibliography Glossary Chronology
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