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Informationen zum Autor Thomas Pegelow Kaplan is the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History, Professor of History, and Interim Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of The Language of Nazi Genocide (2009) and The German-Jewish Press and Journalism Beyond Borders, 1933-1943 (2023, in Hebrew) as well as the co-editor of Beyond ‘Ordinary Men’: Christopher R. Browning and Holocaust Historiography (2019) and Police and Holocaust (2023, in German). Wolf Gruner is the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies, Professor of History and Founding Director of the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research at the University of Southern California. He is the author of eleven books, ten of them on the Holocaust, including Jewish Forced Labor under the Nazis (2006), The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia (2019) and Resisters. How Ordinary Jews fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany (2023). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This volume offers the first extensive analysis of entreaties from persecuted Jews in the Nazi era, demonstrating their largely unappreciated value as a historical source and as an attempt to reclaim agency in increasingly desperate political circumstances. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Thomas Pegelow Kaplan and Wolf Gruner Chapter 1. To Not "Live as a Pariah": Jewish Petitions as Individual and Collective Protest in the Greater German Reich Wolf Gruner Chapter 2. "Did We Not Shed Our Blood for France?" Identity and Resistance in Entreaties for the Jewish Internees of Occupied France, 1940-44 Stacy Renee Veeder Chapter 3. Honorary Czechs and Germans: Petitions for Aryan Status in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Benjamin Frommer Chapter 4. Legal Resistance through Petitions during the Holocaust: The Strategies of Romanian Jewish Leader Wilhelm Filderman, 1940-44 Stefan C. Ionescu Chapter 5. Attempts to Take Action In a Coerced Community? Petitions to the Jewish Council in the Lodz Ghetto during World War II Svenja Bethke Chapter 6. Petitioning Matters: Jews and Non-Jews Negotiating Ghettoization in Budapest, 1944 Tim Cole Chapter 7. Global Jewish Petitioning and the Reconsideration of Spatial Analysis in Holocaust Historiography: The Case of Rescue in the Philippines Thomas Pegelow Kaplan Chapter 8. Petitioning for "Equal Treatment": The Struggles of Intermarried Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Germany Maximilian Strnad Conclusion Thomas Pegelow Kaplan and Wolf Gruner Appendix: European-Jewish Petitions during the Holocaust Bibliograhpy Index ...
