Holocaust and Rescue: Impotent or Indifferent? Anglo-Jewry 1938-1945

ISBN-13: 9780333960394 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 322 str.

Pamela Shatzkes

Opis

This book challenges the widely held view which condemns as weak and half-hearted Anglo-Jewish efforts on behalf of European Jews during the Nazi period. Anglo-Jewish organizations achieved remarkable successes in the pre-war years, combining their administrative expertise with the financial guarantee of maintenance to accomplish the rescue of over fifty thousand refugees. By tragic contrast, their lack of political and diplomatic experience during wartime rendered them almost entirely incapable of influencing an intransigent government engaged in global war to save Jewish lives.

Recenzje

'Dr Shatzkes has written a most important book on what for the Jewish communities in Britain has been one of the most tragic and disturbing passages in its history.' - Professor D.Cameron Watt

'This is a well-researched and thorough study...Shatzkes criticises historians who present a Jewish leadership concerned to ingratiate itself with the higher social order, and therefore unable to represent its constituents. She argues that the Board's tactics may have been flawed, but its motivation was not.' - Electronic Telegraph

Spis treści

List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction 'Englishmen of the Jewish Persuasion' 'The Jewish Lions are no Longer Roaring' The Austrian and Czechoslovakian Crises of 1938-1939 The Watershed: Kristallnacht and After Internment and Deportation Anglo-Jewry Mobilizes (Summer 1942-Spring 1943) Pawns in the Game of War (Summer 1943-Autumn 1944) Rescue Efforts: A Chronicle of Failure Relief Efforts: A Chronicle of Success Conclusion: Lack of Will, Lack of Skill? Bibliography Index

O autorze

PAMELA SHATZKES is a Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics. She is author of a study of the Jews who found refuge in Japan during the war, Kobe, A Japanese Haven for Jewish Refugees, 1940-1941, which was awarded the LSE prize for English prose and the Ivan Morris Memorial Prize of the British Association for Japanese Studies.