Resisting Persecution
Jews and their Petitions during the Holocaust
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 attemp…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Gruner, Wolf (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78920-721-7
- EAN: 9781789207217
- Produktnummer: 33095492
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 262 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'297 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Reihenbandnummer: 24
Über 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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