Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Studia Judaica
Angaben zur Quelle:
11-12 (2004) 161-177
Keywords:
Jews Historiography
;
Jews History 19th century
;
Jews History 20th century
;
Antisemitism History 19th century
;
Antisemitism History 20th century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
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World War, 1939-1945 Jewish resistance
;
Self-defense
Abstract:
Late 19th-early 20th-century Jewish self-defense against antisemitism in Central Europe, as well as later Jewish resistance to fascism and Nazism, stemmed from the assimilated sectors of European Jewry rather than from Jewish nationalists. Criticizes a historiographical tendency to ignore or condemn the self-defense and resistance measures of liberal Jewish circles, e.g. the Centralverein in Germany, and to extol only the nationally-motivated, especially Zionist, resistance. Compares the Jewish resistance in Germany to the Jewish anti-fascist resistance in Italy and, to some extent, in Hungary. Its purely Jewish motivation was weak; resistance of Jews in Central and Western Europe was mainly part of the left-wing resistance. However, the participation of Jews in the anti-fascist struggle is not to be dismissed as non-Jewish in its character: while struggling against fascism and Nazism, the Jewish fighter also fought the antisemitism of these movements and regimes.
Note:
A revised version appeared in "Jüdische Welten" (2005) 440-456.
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