Bitter Reckoning : : Israel Tries Holocaust Survivors as Nazi Collaborators / / Dan Porat.

Digging into newly declassified archives, Dan Porat unearths the story of Jews prosecuted by the State of Israel for Nazi collaboration. Over time courts and the public came to see Jewish ghetto administrators or kapos as tragic figures. Rigorous yet humane, Porat invites us to rethink ideas about v...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1. From Revenge to Retribution in Post-Nazi Europe
  • 2. Tensions among Survivors in Mandatory Palestine
  • 3. The Nazis and Nazi Collaborators Punishment Law
  • 4. Preliminary Court Examinations
  • 5. Weighing the Actions of Jewish Collaborators
  • 6. Did Jewish Kapos Commit Crimes against Humanity?
  • 7. The First Doubts about the Kapo Trials
  • 8. Judging a Nazi and Reframing Collaboration
  • 9. Absolving Ordinary Functionaries
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index