P. Shatzkes

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Holocaust and Rescue (eBook, PDF)

Impotent or Indifferent? Anglo-Jewry 1938-1945

Beschreibung

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.

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Autor

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, Kobe, A Japanese Haven for Jewish Refugees, 1940-1941, which was awarded the LSE prize for English prose and the Ivan Morris Memorial Prize of the British Association for Japanese Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230598416
• Artikelnr.: 45968159

Rezensionen

'Dr Shatzkes has written a most important book on what for the Jewish communities in Britain has been one of the most tragic and disturbing passages in its history.' - Professor D.Cameron Watt

'This is a well-researched and thorough study...Shatzkes criticises historians who present a Jewish leadership concerned to ingratiate itself with the higher social order, and therefore unable to represent its constituents. She argues that the Board's tactics may have been flawed, but its motivation was not.' - Electronic Telegraph