This is a study of the ideological and political relationship between Zionism and anti-Semitism in modern Germany, from the nineteenth century through the Third Reich, focusing on the years between 1933 and 1942. It considers three contentious issues in post-Holocaust historiography and debate: the nature of modern German anti-Semitism; the decision-making process leading to the Nazi mass murder of the Jews of Europe; and the nature and role of German Zionism in German-Jewish history before the Holocaust. This study sheds more light on both the ideological and practical assault of German...
This is a study of the ideological and political relationship between Zionism and anti-Semitism in modern Germany, from the nineteenth century through...
..".this volume provides an invaluable service in illuminating...the many intermediary positions] characterizing Jewish responses to Nazi persecution, even before the war." - Holocaust and Genocide Studies
"By adding a selection of primary sources, including lesser-known materials such as an illuminating 1937 survey of German Jewry by the American Jewish Committee, the editors have further increased the book's usefulness. In the end, the volume provides fascinating accounts of Jewish life under Nazism that demonstrate the need for complex analysis and that there are still questions to...
..".this volume provides an invaluable service in illuminating...the many intermediary positions] characterizing Jewish responses to Nazi persecut...
"This fine collection of essays by leading scholars covers a broad scope of German-Jewish responses to Nazi policies ranging from self-help and everyday endurance to the Zionist alternative and racial recategorization to avoid deportation. The accessible style and continuity make this volume suitable for undergraduate or advanced classes on German or Jewish history or on the Holocaust itself. The excellent documentary annex makes the book especially helpful." - Norman JW Goda, Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Florida
German Jews faced harsh dilemmas in...
"This fine collection of essays by leading scholars covers a broad scope of German-Jewish responses to Nazi policies ranging from self-help and everyd...
