Resisting Persecution

Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, Wolf Gruner (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

262 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-123-4 (ISBN)

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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 attempts of European Jews to resist intensifying persecution and actively struggle for survival.

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan is the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History, Professor of History, and Interim Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of The Language of Nazi Genocide (2009) and The German-Jewish Press and Journalism Beyond Borders, 1933-1943 (2023, in Hebrew) as well as the co-editor of Beyond ‘Ordinary Men’: Christopher R. Browning and Holocaust Historiography (2019) and Police and Holocaust (2023, in German).

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan and Wolf Gruner

Chapter 1. To Not “Live as a Pariah”: Jewish Petitions as Individual and Collective Protest in the Greater German Reich

Wolf Gruner

Chapter 2. “Did We Not Shed Our Blood for France?” Identity and Resistance in Entreaties for the Jewish Internees of Occupied France, 1940–44

Stacy Renee Veeder

Chapter 3. Honorary Czechs and Germans: Petitions for Aryan Status in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

Benjamin Frommer

Chapter 4. Legal Resistance through Petitions during the Holocaust: The Strategies of Romanian Jewish Leader Wilhelm Filderman, 1940–44

Stefan C. Ionescu

Chapter 5. Attempts to Take Action In a Coerced Community? Petitions to the Jewish Council in the Lodz Ghetto during World War II

Svenja Bethke

Chapter 6. Petitioning Matters: Jews and Non-Jews Negotiating Ghettoization in Budapest, 1944

Tim Cole

Chapter 7. Global Jewish Petitioning and the Reconsideration of Spatial Analysis in Holocaust Historiography: The Case of Rescue in the Philippines

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan

Chapter 8. Petitioning for “Equal Treatment”: The Struggles of Intermarried Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Germany

Maximilian Strnad

Conclusion

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan and Wolf Gruner

Appendix: European-Jewish Petitions during the Holocaust

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Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.09.2023
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Contemporary European History
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-80539-123-2 / 1805391232
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-123-4 / 9781805391234
Zustand	Neuware