Mazzenga American Religious Responses to Kristallnacht

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-62330-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 215 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave History Collection

This book examines how American Protestants, Catholics and Jews responded to the persecution of Jews in Germany and German-occupied territory in the 1930s. The essays focus on American religious responses to Kristallnacht and represent the first examination of multi-religious group responses to the beginnings of the Holocaust.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mazzenga, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: American Religious Groups and Kristallnacht; M.Mazzenga Christian and Jewish Interfaith Efforts during the Holocaust: The Ecumenical Context; V.J.Barnett 'The Fatherhood of God and Brotherhood of Man': Mainline American Protestants and the Kristallnacht Pogrom; K.Jantzen Kristallnacht in Context: Jewish War Veterans in America and Britain and the Crisis of German Jewry; M.Berkowitz Toward an American Catholic Response to the Holocaust: Catholic Americanism and Kristallnacht; M.Mazzenga American Catholics Respond to Kristallnacht: NCWC Refugee Policy and the Plight of Non-Aryans; P.Hayes Kristallnacht: The American Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Theological Response; G.Greenberg Persecution, Prophecy, and the Fundamentalist Reconstruction of Germany, 1933-1940; M.Bowman

Über Autor(innen)

MARIA  MAZZENGA has served as Education Archivist at the American Catholic History Research Centre, USA and University Archives since 2005. She has written several articles on American Catholicism and on the U.S. home front during the Second World War and is currently working on a book on American Catholic responses to the Holocaust.