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Choices under Duress of the Holocaust - Benjamin Murmelstein and the Fate of Viennese Jewry, Volume I: Vienna (Hardcover)
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Choices under Duress of the Holocaust - Benjamin Murmelstein and the Fate of Viennese Jewry, Volume I: Vienna (Hardcover)
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In 1973, Leonard and Edith Ehrlich chose to undertake a daunting
task that would ultimately become their greatest work: conducting
over thirty years of meticulous research to investigate and
document Vienna’s Jewish community and its leadership during the
Holocaust. Inescapably, this path led them to the controversial
figure of Benjamin Murmelstein, Viennese rabbi and later Judenrat
council elder at Theresienstadt. As a youth in Vienna during the
1930s, Leonard Ehrlich grew up knowing and respecting Murmelstein,
who was the rabbi for his bar mitzvah. Ehrlich and his family would
flee Vienna for the United States two months after the beginning of
World War II; upon hearing post-war accounts of Murmelstein’s
involvement in Nazi atrocities, Ehrlich attempted to reconcile
those accounts with his experience of Murmelstein as a thoughtful,
devoted intellectual. Leonard Ehrlich and his wife Edith, like
Leonard a Viennese refugee and doctor of philosophy, thus began an
intellectual magnum opus that would seek to interrogate a number of
basic assumptions of Holocaust scholarship and critical thought.
The Ehrlichs would conduct painstaking historical research not only
in archives but also in interviews with subjects, not the least of
whom was Murmelstein himself, who had settled in Rome after the
conclusion of the war. The first volume focuses on the Jewish
community of Vienna during the period of 1938 to 1942. Choices
under Duress of the Holocaust is most certainly a historical work,
but it is also a philosophical work, in which “duress” and
“choice” are considered fully in their relevant contexts. It
is, then, a history of the destruction of the Jewish community of
Vienna and an examination of the performance of the Jewish
leadership in its dealings with the Nazis on behalf of the Jews.
But it is also the positing of a question, the opening of a space
to consider the nuances of consent, complicity, and condemnation.
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