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Author Puckett, Dan J

Title In the shadow of Hitler : Alabama's Jews, the Second World War, and the holocaust / Dan J. Puckett
Published Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series The modern South
Modern South.
Contents Alabama's Jews and Nazism, 1933-38 -- The refugee crisis, 1938-41 -- Zionism in Alabama, 1933-45 -- The Alabama press, Nazi antisemitism, and the holocaust -- The war -- Antisemitism and racism during the war -- Postwar Alabama
Summary In the Shadow of Hitler is the first comprehensive state study of how southern Jews-and non-Jews-dealt with the coming of the Good War and the Nazi persecution of European Jews. In 1982, the Orthodox congregation of Ahavas Chesed in Mobile, Alabama, reconsecrated a Torah scroll from the Altneuschule in Prague, Czechoslovakia, that had been seized by the Nazis in the midst of the Holocaust. The Nazis, over the course of their occupation of Czechoslovakia, confiscated from Jewish communities throughout Bohemia and Moravia 1,564 Torahs, among numerous other Judaic ceremonial
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Alabama
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Alabama
Jews -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Ethnic relations
Jews
Refugees
Juden
Flüchtling
Hilfeleistung
Judenvernichtung
Weltkrieg 1939-1945
SUBJECT Alabama -- Ethnic relations
Subject Alabama
Alabama
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780817381073
0817381074