Judging "privileged" Jews : Holocaust ethics, representation, and the "Grey zone" / Adam Brown

The Nazis' persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their pers...
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The Nazis' persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their persecutors. Many in the camps and ghettos came to hold so-called "privileged" positions, and their behavior has often been judged as self-serving and harmful to fellow inmates. Such controversial figures constitute an intrinsically important, frequently misunderstood, and often taboo aspect of the Holocaust. Drawing on Primo Levi's concept of the "grey zone," this study analyzes the passing of moral judgment on "privileged" Jews as represented by
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PPN (Katalog-ID):	896610144

Personen:	Brown, Adam - 1952- [VerfasserIn]

Medienart:	E-Book
Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource (x, 222 Seiten) ; Illustrationen
Sprache:	Englisch

Erschienen:	New York Oxford: Berghahn ; [2018] Berlin: Knowledge Unlatched © 2018

Basisklassifikation:	15.43 Deutsche Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart 08.38 Ethik 89.21 Faschismus 15.96 Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes außerhalb des Staates Israel
Schlagwörter:	Juden / Kollaboration / Moral / Levi, Primo, 1919-1987

Reihe:	War and genocide - volume 18
Bibliogr. Zusammenhang:	Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe: Judging "privileged" Jews - Brown, Adam, 1952 -, 1. ed., New York, NY [u.a.] : Berghahn, 2013, X, 222 S.

ISBN:	978-1-78533-656-0 978-0-85745-992-3