Born Jewish j - A Childhood in Occupied Europe

This fierce memoir is both an elegy and an indictment. Marcel Liebman's account of his childhood in Brussels under the Nazi occupation explores the emergence of his class consciousness against a background of resistance and collaboration. He documents the internal class war that has long been hidden from history: how the Nazi persecution exploited class distinctions within the Jewish community, and how certain Jewish notables collaborated in a systematic programme of denunciation and deportation against immigrant Jews who lacked the privileges of wealth and citizenship.

About the author

Marcel Liebman (1929-1986) was a Marxist historian. He was the author of The Russian Revolution and Leninism Under Lenin.

Summary

Eminent Marxist intellectual reveals class struggles in Nazi-torn Belgium

Product details

• Authors: Marcel Liebman
• Assisted by: Liz Heron (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781788736442
• ISBN: 978-1-78873-644-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Zweiter Weltkrieg, Belgien, 1940 bis 1949 n. Chr., Bezug zu Juden und jüdischen Gruppen, Memoiren, Berichte/Erinnerungen, Soziale Gruppen: religiöse Gemeinschaften, Holocaust