Full Description
German Jews faced harsh dilemmas in their responses to Nazi persecution, partly a result of Nazi cruelty and brutality but also a result of an understanding of their history and rightful place in Germany. This volume addresses the impact of the anti-Jewish policies of Hitler's regime on Jewish family life, Jewish women, and the existence of Jewish organizations and institutions and considers some of the Jewish responses to Nazi anti-Semitism and persecution. This volume offers scholars, students, and interested readers a highly accessible but focused introduction to Jewish life under National Socialism, the often painful dilemmas that it produced, and the varied Jewish responses to those dilemmas.
Contents
Preface
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany: Dilemmas and Responses
Francis R. Nicosia
Chapter 1. Changing Roles in Jewish Families
Marion Kaplan
Chapter 2. Evading Persecution: German-Jewish Behavior Patterns after 1933
Jürgen Matthäus
Chapter 3. Jewish Self-Help in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939: The Dilemmas of Cooperation
Avraham Barkai
Chapter 4. German Zionism and Jewish Life in Nazi Berlin
Francis R. Nicosia
Chapter 5. Without Neighbors: Daily Living in Judenhäuser
Konrad Kwiet
Chapter 6. Between Self-Assertion and Forced Collaboration: The Reich Association of Jews in Germany, 1939-1945
Beate Meyer
Chapter 7. Jewish Culture in a Modern Ghetto: Theater and Scholarship among the Jews of Nazi Germany
Michael Brenner
Appendixes
A. Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, 7 April 1933
B. Proclamation of the New Reichsvertretung der deutschen Juden, September 1933
C. American Jewish Committee, ‟The Situation of the Jews in Germany,ˮ 1 March 1935
D. Reich Citizenship Law, 15 September 1935
E. Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, 15 September 1935
F. American Jewish Committee, "The Jews in Germany Today," 1 June 1937
G. Letter from Georg Landauer to Martin Rosenblüth, 8 February 1938
H. Law Concerning the Legal Status of the Jewish Religious Communities, 29 March 1938
I. Regulation for the Elimination of the Jews from the Economic Life of Germany, 12 November 1938
J. Establishment of the Reich Central Office for Jewish Emigration, 24 January 1939
K. Establishment of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland, 4 July 1939
Contributors
Selected Bibliography
Index
