| Description |
1 online resource (391 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Place Names -- 1 The Jewish Question to Modern Times -- Jews and Christians in the Ancient World -- Ashkenazic Jewry in the Middle Ages -- Emancipation and Acculturation in Western Europe -- The Pale of Settlement -- Modern Antisemitism -- 2 A People Apart: World War I and Its Aftermath -- World War I and the Embrace of Mass Violence -- Germany's Defeat and the Early Weimar Republic -- Eastern Europe's Jews |
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Zionism between the Wars -- Other Destinations -- 3 Nazism and the Racial State -- Adolf Hitler's Early Years -- Hitler and the Jewish Enemy -- How the Nazis Came to Power -- The Police State -- 4 Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1939 -- Germans and Jews -- Anti-Jewish Measures, 1933-1935 -- Readying for War -- The Nazi Effect in Eastern Europe -- Kristallnacht -- 5 No Safe Haven: The World and the Jewish Question, 1933-1939 -- Jewish Responses to Persecution -- Palestine, the Arab Revolt, and the White Paper -- The Jewish Question on the World Stage -- Desperation: The Évian Conference and After |
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The Vatican and the Jewish Question -- 6 The Assault on Poland's Jews, 1939-1941 -- The Nazi Assault on Poland -- Schemes for Jewish Reservations -- Ghettoization in Poland -- Jewish Councils -- The Joint, Aleynhilf, and the Underground -- 7 Western Europe, the War, and the Jews, 1939-1941 -- Jews in the Reich, 1939-1941 -- The Jews of Western Europe, 1940-1941 -- Was Escape Still Possible? Palestine -- Was Escape Still Possible? The Americas and Asia -- 8 Transitions to Systematic Killing, 1940-1941 -- Murdering Germany's Disabled -- Hungary and Romania as German Allies |
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The Destruction of Yugoslavia -- 9 "War of Extermination": The Campaign in the USSR, 1941 -- Preparing Mass Murder -- Jews in the USSR on the Eve of Barbarossa -- The Onslaught: Pogroms -- The Onslaught: Systematic Shooting -- Romania's War in the USSR -- 10 The Holocaust in the USSR: The Jewish Response, 1941-1944 -- Jewish Reactions: Recognition and Survival -- Varieties of Jewish Leadership -- The Soviet State and the Holocaust -- Jewish Resistance in the USSR -- 11 The Destruction of Poland's Jews, 1942-1943 -- The Decision to Kill Europe's Jews -- Aktion Reinhard -- Deportations |
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The Warsaw Ghetto Rising -- The End of Aktion Reinhard -- 12 Auschwitz and The Terrible Secret, 1941-1943 -- Auschwitz -- What the Allies Knew -- To the Bermuda Conference -- 13 The Final Solution in Western Europe, 1942-1944 -- The Destruction of the Reich's Jews -- The Jews of Western Europe: Deportation -- Countering the Holocaust in Western Europe -- 14 Rescue: The Final Solution Interrupted, 1942-1943 -- The Nazis and the Jews of the Middle East -- The Germans, the Japanese, and the Shanghai Ghetto -- Rescue in the North -- Italy and the Final Solution -- The Silence of the Vatican |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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15 Hitler's Southeastern Allies and the Hungarian Jewish Catastrophe, 1942-1944 |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429839863 |
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0429839863 |
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