Language:
English
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
Angaben zur Quelle:
42 (1997) 135-147
Keywords:
Jews History 1933-1939
Abstract:
An extended version of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta, 1996. Examines the defense activities and struggle for survival conducted by organized German Jewry in 1933-38. A network of defense and assistance organizations - Zentralausschuss für Hilfe und Aufbau, Zentralstelle für Jüdische Wirtschaftshilfe, etc. - sprang up in 1933; some older organizations, like the Centralverein, also joined the defense and assistance activities. Immediately after the Nazi rise to power, the main strategy chosen by the Jewish organizations was "legalistic defense" - e.g. protests against the arbitrary dismissal of Jews (going beyond the law of the "Aryan paragraph"). Gradually, forms of practical assistance (vocational retraining, legal assistance, etc.) came to the forefront of Jewish activities in Germany. Increasingly, the Jewish organizations, headed by the Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden, re-oriented their work toward the emigration of Jews. See the response by Donald Niewyk in the same volume (pp. 149-153).
Description / Table of Contents:
Niewyk, Donald L.. Comments. Ibid. 152-153.
DOI:
10.1093/leobaeck/42.1.135
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