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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101009054414

ISBN-139781009054416

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Book TitleBetween Community and Collaboration : 'jewish Councils' in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation

Number of Pages313 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

TopicEurope / General

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorLaurien Vastenhout

Book SeriesStudies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Dewey Edition23

Reviews'A much-needed addition to the study of the Holocaust in Western Europe.' Jazmine Contreras, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 'This study presents a fresh and innovative analysis of the Jewish Councils phenomenon in Western Europe during the Nazi period which has been a delicate and controversial topic since their very establishment. The fascinating detailed and in-depth research turns this book into essential reading for scholars as well as for the broader interested public.' Dan Michman, Bar-Ilan University and Head of the Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research, '[Vastenhout's] broadening of sources and new insights are impressive.' Geraldien von Frijtag Drabbe Künzel, Low Countries Historical Review, '... a fascinating, complex, lively story, and, what's more, pleasant to read and accessible to a wide audience.' Laurance Schram (in French), Journal of Belgian History

Dewey Decimal940.5318

Table Of ContentPreface; Introduction; 1. Disrupted communities? Jewish leadership and communal representation until 1941; 2. Institutional rivalry and improvisation: The establishment of 'Jewish Councils' in 1941; 3. Continuation or discontinuation? The nature of the Councils' leadership, 1941-1944; 4. Optimism and frustration: German perspectives; 5. Between legality and illegality: Cloaking and resistance; Epilogue.

SynopsisThe first comprehensive, comparative study of the 'Jewish Councils' in the Netherlands, Belgium and France during Nazi rule. In the postwar period, there was extensive focus on these organisations' controversial role as facilitators of the Holocaust. They were seen as instruments of Nazi oppression, aiding the process of isolating and deporting the Jews they were ostensibly representing. As a result, they have chiefly been remembered as forms of collaboration. Using a wide range of sources including personal testimonies, diaries, administrative documents and trial records, Laurien Vastenhout demonstrates that the nature of the Nazi regime, and its outlook on these bodies, was far more complex. She sets the conduct of the Councils' leaders in their prewar and wartime social and situational contexts and provides a thorough understanding of their personal contacts with the Germans and clandestine organisations. Between Community and Collaboration reveals what German intentions with these organisations were during the course of the occupation, and allows for a deeper understanding of the different ways in which the Holocaust unfolded in each of these countries., A comparative analysis of the 'Jewish Councils' in Western Europe during World War Two. Based on a wide range of documentation,Laurien Vastenhout identifies the differences and similarities between Jewish representative bodies across occupied Western Europe and reveals that their histories were far more complex than has been previously recognized.

LC Classification NumberKBM2612.J83V37 2024