Nazi Antisemitism and Jewish Legal Self-Defense - The Turn to Law in Liberal Democracies, 193239

This book examines the ways in which Jewish individuals and organized communal bodies in the 1930s sought to counter this increasing antisemitic violence, physical and verbal, by using the law against their fascist and Nazi attackers.

List of contents

1. Jews, Nazis, and the Turn to Law 2. The Antisemitic International: The Protocols and Jewish-Legal Self-defense 3. Europe: Jewish legal Self-defense as an International Phenomenon 4. The Greyshirts Trial: Jews, Nazis, and Legal Self-defense in South Africa 5. After the Greyshirts Trial: Jewish Self-defense in South Africa following the Victory of Rabbi Levy 6. Jews, Nazis, and the Québec Experience: The Failures of Law 7. Canadian Nazis and Jewish Legal Self-defense in Manitoba: Tobias v. Whittaker 8. The Freiman-Tissot Affair; Nazis Antisemites, Jews, and the Canadian Criminal Code 9. Nazi Antisemitism, Jewish legal Self-defense, and Criminal Libel in Ottawa 10. Nazi Antisemites, Libel Suits, and Jewish Legal Self-defense in the United States 11. The Edmondson Case and the Trial That Wasn't: American Antisemitism, American Law, American Jews 12. English Jewish Self-defense: Elites, Masses, and Law 13. The Leese Case: Libel Laws, Nazi Antisemites, and Jewish Self-defense in England 14. Conclusion: Beyond Jewish Legal Self-defense?

About the author

David Fraser is Professor Emeritus of Law and Social Theory in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. His research has focused on legal aspects of National Socialism and the Shoah, and on modern and contemporary Jewish legal history.

Summary

This book examines the ways in which Jewish individuals and organized communal bodies in the 1930s sought to counter this increasing antisemitic violence, physical and verbal, by using the law against their fascist and Nazi attackers.

Product details

• Authors: David Fraser, David (University of Nottingham Fraser
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032529813
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3252981-3
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Routledge Studies in Comparative Legal History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; LAW / General, RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, HISTORY / Jewish, LAW / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, LAW / Comparative, Religion: general, Jewish Studies, Second World War, The Holocaust, Legal History, Social Law, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Law & society, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Law and society, sociology of law, Social law and Medical law, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust