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Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust
Laura Jockusch
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Description for Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust
Paperback. A transnational and interdisciplinary look at the trials of Jews accused of collaborating with the Nazis. Editor(s): Jockusch, Laura; Finder, Gabriel N. Num Pages: 448 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FBH; 3JJPG; HBTZ1; JFSR1; LAF; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 660.
In the aftermath of World War II, virtually all European countries struggled with the dilemma of citizens who had collaborated with Nazi occupiers. Jewish communities in particular faced the difficult task of confronting collaborators among their own ranks-those who had served on Jewish councils, worked as ghetto police, or acted as informants. European Jews established their own tribunals-honor courts-for dealing with these crimes, while Israel held dozens of court cases against alleged collaborators under a law passed two years after its founding. In Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust, editors Laura Jockusch ... Read more
In the aftermath of World War II, virtually all European countries struggled with the dilemma of citizens who had collaborated with Nazi occupiers. Jewish communities in particular faced the difficult task of confronting collaborators among their own ranks-those who had served on Jewish councils, worked as ghetto police, or acted as informants. European Jews established their own tribunals-honor courts-for dealing with these crimes, while Israel held dozens of court cases against alleged collaborators under a law passed two years after its founding. In Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust, editors Laura Jockusch ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Detroit, MI, United States
ISBN
9780814338773
SKU
V9780814338773
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About Laura Jockusch
Laura Jockusch is Martin Buber Society Fellow in Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She is the author of Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe. She teaches in the International M.A. Program in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa, Israel. Gabriel N. Finder is Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of Jewish ... Read more
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