Language:
English
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Modern Judaism
Angaben zur Quelle:
13,2 (1993) 149-163
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews History 1939-1945
;
Jewish ghettos
;
Jewish ghettos
;
Jewish ghettos
;
Jewish councils
;
Kaunas (Lithuania)
;
Šiauliai (Lithuania)
;
Vilnius (Lithuania)
Abstract:
The ghetto leaderships in Vilna, Kovno, and Shavli did not function in the same manner. The Jewish Councils in Kovno and Shavli were regarded as "public servants", the Jewish police were loyal to the ghetto populations, and the leaderships' attitudes to the resistance organizations were positive. In Vilna, the Jewish Council was despised because of its selfishness and corruption, the police force was an instrument of the Gestapo, and relations between the Jewish Council and the resistance were conflicted. Analyzes reasons for these differences: Vilna Jewry suffered more decimations in the early period of occupation; the Jewish leadership of prewar Lithuania (as opposed to Poland) had experienced a successful struggle with the government for communal autonomy; and the Jews of Kovno and Shavli spoke Lithuanian and had better relations with the Lithuanian population than the Jews of Vilna. See the response to this article by Dov Levin, in Hebrew, in "Massuah" 23 (1995) 228-230, disputing some of Porat's conclusions regarding the differences in conduct of the Jewish Councils in the main ghettos of Lithuania.
Note:
In Hebrew:
,
"משואה; קובץ שנתי לתודעת השואה והגבורה" כב (תשנד) 70-80
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