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Jewish Honor Courts - Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust (Paperback)
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Jewish Honor Courts - Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust (Paperback)
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In the aftermath of World War II, virtually all European countries
struggled with the dilemma of citizens who had collaborated with
Nazi occupiers. Jewish communities in particular faced the
difficult task of confronting collaborators among their own
ranks-those who had served on Jewish councils, worked as ghetto
police, or acted as informants. European Jews established their own
tribunals-honor courts-for dealing with these crimes, while Israel
held dozens of court cases against alleged collaborators under a
law passed two years after its founding. In Jewish Honor Courts:
Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after
the Holocaust, editors Laura Jockusch and Gabriel N. Finder bring
together scholars of Jewish social, cultural, political, and legal
history to examine this little-studied and fascinating postwar
chapter of Jewish history. The volume begins by presenting the
rationale for punishing wartime collaborators and purging them from
Jewish society. Contributors go on to examine specific honor court
cases in Allied-occupied Germany and Austria, Poland, the
Netherlands, and France. One essay also considers the absence of an
honor court in Belgium. Additional chapters detail the process by
which collaborators were accused and brought to trial, the
treatment of women in honor courts, and the unique political and
social place of honor courts in the nascent state of Israel. Taken
as a whole, the essays in Jewish Honor Courts illustrate the great
caution and integrity brought to the agonizing task of identifying
and punishing collaborators, a process that helped survivors to
reclaim their agency, reassert their dignity, and work through
their traumatic experiences. For many years, the honor courts have
been viewed as a taboo subject, leaving their hundreds of cases
unstudied. Jewish Honor Courts uncovers this forgotten chapter of
Jewish history and shows it to be an integral part of postwar
Jewish rebuilding. Scholars of Jewish, European, and Israeli
history as well as readers interested in issues of legal and social
justice will be grateful for this detailed volume.
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