Shatzkes Holocaust and Rescue

Impotent or Indifferent? Anglo-Jewry 1938-1945
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-230-59841-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 322 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave History Collection

This book challenges the widely held view which condemns as weak and half-hearted Anglo-Jewish efforts on behalf of European Jews during the Nazi period. Anglo-Jewish organizations achieved remarkable successes in the pre-war years, combining their administrative expertise with the financial guarantee of maintenance to accomplish the rescue of over fifty thousand refugees. By tragic contrast, their lack of political and diplomatic experience during wartime rendered them almost entirely incapable of influencing an intransigent government engaged in global war to save Jewish lives.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shatzkes, P.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction 'Englishmen of the Jewish Persuasion' 'The Jewish Lions are no Longer Roaring' The Austrian and Czechoslovakian Crises of 1938-1939 The Watershed: Kristallnacht and After Internment and Deportation Anglo-Jewry Mobilizes (Summer 1942-Spring 1943) Pawns in the Game of War (Summer 1943-Autumn 1944) Rescue Efforts: A Chronicle of Failure Relief Efforts: A Chronicle of Success Conclusion: Lack of Will, Lack of Skill? Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

PAMELA SHATZKES is a Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics. She is author of a study of the Jews who found refuge in Japan during the war, , which was awarded the LSE prize for English prose and the Ivan Morris Memorial Prize of the British Association for Japanese Studies.