Eichmann's Jews: The Jewish Administration of Holocaust Vienna, 1938-1945 - Couverture rigide

Rabinovici, Doron

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ISBN 10 : 0745646824 ISBN 13 : 9780745646824

Editeur : Polity Press, 2011

Synopsis

Eichmann's Jews This is a major new study of the very sensitive question of the collaboration of Jews with the Nazi regime. The book uses newly discovered archival material to examine the role of the 'Judenrat' or Jewish Council in Holocaust Vienna. Full description

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"An important and moving depiction of how Jewish leaders coped with Nazi oppression."
American Historical Review

"Rabinovici′s judgments are sensitive and evidence–based. He concludes that the myth of Jewish collaboration and individual self–preservation was part of a post–Holocaust identity resting on the comforting fantasy that those who did not co–operate had resisted. In fact, the Jewish leaders inevitably shared the hopes and delusions of their communities and it was this common fate that makes their role so tragic."
Jewish Chronicle

"A calm and careful analysis of what happened in one major centre of Jewish life."
Birmingham Jewish Recorder

"A unique and candid account of the internal workings of the Jewish community in Vienna during the war. Doron Rabinovici has the courage and the gall to address directly the question of how much Eichmann′s Jews facilitated the Holocaust."
Peter Goodrich, Cardozo School of Law, New York

"An extremely well–researched and well–documented book."
H–Net Reviews

"Rabinovici′s Eichmann′s Jews, together with Hannah Arendt′s book on Eichmann, belong among the fundamental texts of political philosophy of the 20th and 21st centuries."
Die Tageszeitung

"Rabinovici is not only an historian but also a great stylist and essayist... His wonderful prose is complemented by the meticulousness of his research. For the reader it is a stroke of luck not only that he knows how to report the facts but also that he is able to express their psychological ambivalence in a literary fashion."
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The question of the collaboration of Jews with the Nazi regimeduring the persecution and extermination of European Jewry is oneof the most difficult and sensitive issues surrounding theHolocaust. How could people be forced to cooperate in their owndestruction? Why would they help the Nazi authorities round uptheir own people for deportation, manage the ′collection points′and supervise the people being deported until the last moment?

This book is a major new study of the role of the Jews, and morespecifically the ′Judenrat′ or Jewish Council, in Holocaust Vienna.It was in Vienna that Eichmann developed and tested his model for aNazi Jewish policy from 1938 onwards, and the leaders of theViennese Jewish community were the prototypes for all subsequentJewish councils. By studying the situation in Vienna, it ispossible to gain a unique insight into the way that the Nazi regimeincorporated the Jewish community into its machinery ofdestruction.

Drawing on recently discovered archives and extensiveinterviews, Doron Rabinovici explores in detail the actions ofindividual Jews and Jewish organizations and shows how all of theirstrategies to protect themselves and others were ultimately doomedto failure. His rich and insightful account enables us tounderstand in a new way the terrible reality of the victims′plight: faced with the stark choice of death or cooperation, manychose to cooperate with the authorities in the hope that theiractions might turn out to be the lesser evil.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0745646824
• ISBN 13: 9780745646824
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288