Jewish resistance against the Nazis [electronic resource] / edited by Patrick Henry.
Henry, Patrick (Patrick Gerard), editor.
2014
D810.J4 .J49 2014eb
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Title
Jewish resistance against the Nazis [electronic resource] / edited by Patrick Henry.
ISBN
9780813225906 electronic book
9780813225890
Published
Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxxviii, 630 pages)
Call Number
D810.J4 .J49 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.53/18
Summary
"This volume puts to rest the myth that the Jews went passively to the slaughter like sheep. Indeed Jews resisted in every Nazi-occupied country - in the forests, the ghettos, and the concentration camps. The essays presented here consider Jewish resistance to be resistance by Jewish persons in specifically Jewish groups, or by Jewish persons working within non-Jewish organizations. Resistance could be armed revolt; flight; the rescue of targeted individuals by concealment in non-Jewish homes, farms, and institutions; or by the smuggling of Jews into countries where Jews were not objects of Nazi persecution. Other forms of resistance include every act that Jewish people carried out to fight against the dehumanizing agenda of the Nazis - acts such as smuggling food, clothing, and medicine into the ghettos, putting on plays, reading poetry, organizing orchestras and art exhibits, forming schools, leaving diaries, and praying. These attempts to remain physically, intellectually, culturally, morally, and theologically alive constituted resistance to Nazi oppression, which was designed to demolish individuals, destroy their soul, and obliterate their desire to live. The contributors are among the most renowned Holocaust authorities in Israel, Europe, Canada, and the United States. The essays treat Jewish resistance in France, Belgium, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, the Yishuv, Germany, Austria, Croatia, Poland, Romania, the Ukraine, Belarus, Slovakia, and Hungary. Some essays describe children's resistance and music as resistance. The authors explain why different types of resistance occurred in some places but not in others and how factors such as terrain played a vital role in why one type of resistance took place in some areas but was impossible elsewhere. The importance of chronology and the progress of the war are also considered." -- Publisher's description.
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Part 1. Myths and Facts
The Myth of Jewish Passivity / Richard Middleton-Kaplan
Why Didn't They Resist More? / Berel Lang
Jewish Resistance: Facts, Omissions, and Distortions / Nechama Tec
Part 2. Western Europe and the Yishuv
Up in Arms: Jewish Resistance against Nazi Germany in France / Nathan Bracher
Unarmed Combat: Jewish Humanitarian Resistance in France during the Shoah / Nancy Lefenfeld
Unique Aspects of Jewish Armed Resistance and Rescue in Belgium / Suzanne Vromen
Resistance and Italian Jews in Wartime Italy / Ariella Lang
Greek Responses to the Nazis in the Mountains and in the Camps / Steven Bowman
"Therefore be Courageous, Too": Jewish Resistance and Rescue in the Netherlands / Yehudi Lindeman and Hans de Vries
Between Accommodation and Awareness: Jewish Resistance in Scandinavia under Nazism / Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke
Organizing Jewish Resistance: The Decision-Making and Executive array in Yishuv Rescue Operations During the Holocaust / Tuvia Friling
Part 3. Children as Resisters and Music as Resistance
Raising their Voices: Children's Resistance through Diary Writing and Song / Debórah Dwork
An Untold Story of Rescue: Jewish Children and youth in German-Occupied Poland / Joanna Beata Michlic
Music as Resistance / Nick Strimple
Part 4. Central and Eastern Europe
Jewish Resistance in Nazi Germany and Austria, 1933-45 / Dieter Kuntz
"Three Lines in History?" Modes of Jewish Resistance in Eastern European Ghettos / Dalia Ofer
Jewish Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto / Avinoam Patt
Courage to Defy: Jews of the Independent State of Croatia Fight Back, 1941-45 / Esther Gitman
Legal Tools Instead of Weapons: Jewish Resistance to the State Takeover of Urban Real Estate and Businesses during the Antonescu Regime, 1940-44 / Ştefan Ionescu
Jewish Resistance in the Ukraine and Belarus during the Holocaust / Yehuda Bauer
Jewish Resistance in Slovakia, 1938-45 / Hana Kubátová
Defying Genocide: Jewish Resistance and Self-Rescue in Hungary / Gábor Kádár, Christine Schmidt van der Zanden, and Zoltán Vági
Resistance in the Camps / Robert Jan van Pelt.

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