Resisting Persecution : : Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust / / ed. by Wolf Gruner, Thomas Pegelow Kaplan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Bethke, Svenja,; Cole, Tim,; Frommer, Benjamin,; Gruner, Wolf,; Ionescu, Ştefan Cristian,; Kaplan, Thomas Pegelow,; Strnad, Maximilian,; Veeder, Stacy Renee,
• HerausgeberIn: Gruner, Wolf,; Kaplan, Thomas Pegelow,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary European History ; 24
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 p.)

Since antiquity, European Jewish diaspora communities have used formal appeals to secular and religious authorities to secure favors or protection. Such petitioning took on particular significance in modern dictatorships, often as the only tool left for voicing political opposition. During the Holocaust, tens of thousands of European Jews turned to individual and collective petitions in the face of state-sponsored violence. This volume offers the first extensive analysis of petitions authored by Jews in nations ruled by the Nazis and their allies. It demonstrates their underappreciated value as a historical source and reveals the many attempts of European Jews to resist intensifying persecution and actively struggle for survival.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 TO NOT “LIVE AS A PARIAH” Jewis h Petitions as Individual and Collective Protest in the Greater German Reich -- Chapter 2 “DID WE NOT SHED OUR BLOOD FOR FRANCE?” Identity and Resistance in Entreaties for the Jewish Internees of Occupied France, 1940–44 -- Chapter 3 HONORARY CZECHS AND GERMANS Petitions for Aryan Status in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia -- Chapter 4 LEGAL RESISTANCE THROUGH PETITIONS DURING THE HOLOCAUST The Strategies of Romanian Jewish Leader Wilhelm Filderman, 1940–44 -- Chapter 5 ATTEMPTS TO TAKE ACTION IN A COERCED COMMUNITY Petitions to the Jewish Council in the Łódź Ghetto during World War II -- Chapter 6 PETITIONING MATTERS Jews and Non-Jews Negotiating Ghettoization in Budapest, 1944 -- Chapter 7 GLOBAL JEWISH PETITIONING AND THE RECONSIDERATION OF SPATIAL ANALYSIS IN HOLOCAUST HISTORIOGRAPHY The Case of Rescue in the Philippines -- Chapter 8 PETITIONING FOR “EQUAL TREATMENT” The Struggles of Intermarried Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Germany -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX European-Jewish Petitions during the Holocaust -- INDEX