Language:
English
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
Angaben zur Quelle:
42 (1997) 123-134
Keywords:
Zionism
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
An expanded version of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta, January 1996. Although far from being a resistance movement in the 1920s-30s, the German Zionist movement did respond to the growing restrictions and persecution of Jews under the Nazis. It began with issuing formal statements to the regime calling for the civil and legal equality of Jews in Germany, it tried to inform the world about the Nazis' Jewish policy, and it was constantly engaged in Jewish emigration. The most consistent instrument of Zionist resistance was the newspaper "Jüdische Rundschau", published by Robert Weltsch. It monitored the Nazi press and replied to Nazi slanders, and it tried to lift the morale of German Jews. In the 1940s the movement maintained the group Chug Chaluzi, which attempted to save Jews from deportation. The Zionist movement succeeded in responding to Nazi antisemitism with a specifically Zionist message. See the response by Donald Niewyk in the same volume (pp. 149-153).
Description / Table of Contents:
Niewyk, Donald L.. Comments. Ibid. 150-152.
DOI:
10.1093/leobaeck/42.1.123
URL:
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