Language:
English
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Israeli History
Angaben zur Quelle:
18,1 (1997) 57-72
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jews
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Jews
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Jews
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Jewish ghettos
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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World War, 1939-1945 Jewish resistance
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Zionism
Abstract:
The issue of participation of Jewish communists in the ghetto underground has generally been neglected by Israeli historiography. Some writers attribute only anti-fascist motivations to the communists' involvement in Jewish resistance. A close examination of the position and attitudes of Jewish communists in the ghettos of Minsk, Kovno, and Kraków leads to the conclusion that they had purely Jewish motives in their underground activities. Shortly after the German occupation, Jewish communists in these cities discovered that they were regarded by their non-Jewish comrades primarily as Jews rather than as communists. Their disillusionment, as well as the traditional Jewish background of many communists, caused them to identify with their people and in some cases to clash with the party leadership, which was not interested in rescuing Jews. Despite some discord between communists and Zionists in the resistance movements of the Kovno and Kraków ghettos, cooperation based on Jewish solidarity was the norm.
Note:
A Hebrew version appeared in:
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"דפים לחקר תקופת השואה" יב (תשנה)
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Appeared in Russian as "Роль евреев-коммунистов в подпольной и партизанской борьбе (три примера)" in "Уроки Холокоста" (2010) 141-151.
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