Jewish Responses to Persecution: Volume II, 1938-1940 is the second
volume of the five-volume set within the series "Documenting Life
and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context." This volume brings
together in an accessible historical narrative a broad range of
documents-including diaries, letters, speeches, newspaper articles,
reports, Jewish identity cards, and personal photographs-from Jews
in Nazi-dominated Europe and beyond Europe's borders. The volume
skillfully illuminates the daily lives of a diverse range of Jews
who suffered under Nazism, their coping strategies, and their
efforts to assess the implications for the present and future of
the persecution they faced during this period. Volume II begins
with Kristallnacht in 1938 and continues through the Jewish flight
out of Germany, the onset of World War II, the forced relocation of
the Jews of Europe to the East, and the formation of Jewish
ghettos, particularly in Poland. The twelve chapters, divided into
four parts, track the trajectory of German expansion and
anti-Jewish policies chronologically, attesting to a clear
progression of persecution over time and space. At the same time,
they reflect the vast differences in the responses of Jewish
communities, groups, and individuals within and beyond the Germans'
grasp, differences that resulted both from the unevenness of the
Reich's policy toward Jews as well as the varied backgrounds,
traditions, expectations, and life histories of Jews affected by
German policy. This volume raises essential questions, such as:
What was the spectrum of Jewish perceptions and actions under Nazi
domination? How did Jews affected directly, or others standing on
the outside, view the situation? In what ways were Jews able to
influence their own fate under persecution? What role did Jewish
tradition play in how the present and future were interpreted? The
answers inherent in the documents are often varied or inconclusive;
nonetheless these sources add considerably to our understanding of
the Holocaust.
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