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In this analysis of the life of Arnost Frischer, an influential
Jewish nationalist activist, Jan Lanicek reflects upon how the
Jewish community in Czechoslovakia dealt with the challenges that
arose from their volatile relationship with the state authorities
in the first half of the 20th century. The Jews in the Bohemian
Lands experienced several political regimes in the period from 1918
to the late 1940s: the Habsburg Empire, the first democratic
Czechoslovak republic, the post-Munich authoritarian Czecho-Slovak
republic, the Nazi regime, renewed Czechoslovak democracy and the
Communist regime. Frischer's involvement in local and central
politics affords us invaluable insights into the relations and
negotiations between the Jewish activists and these diverse
political authorities in the Bohemian Lands. Vital coverage is also
given to the relatively under-researched subject of the Jewish
responses to the Nazi persecution and the attempts of the exiled
Jewish leadership to alleviate the plight of the Jews in occupied
Europe. The case study of Frischer and Czechoslovakia provides an
important paradigm for understanding modern Jewish politics in
Europe in the first half of the 20th century, making this a book of
great significance to all students and scholars interested in
Jewish history and Modern European history.
Providing diverse insights into Jewish-Gentile relations in East
Central Europe from the outbreak of the Second World War until the
reestablishment of civic societies after the fall of Communism in
the late 1980s, this volume brings together scholars from various
disciplines - including history, sociology, political science,
cultural studies, film studies and anthropology - to investigate
the complexity of these relations, and their transformation, from
perspectives beyond the traditional approach that deals purely with
politics. This collection thus looks for interactions between the
public and private, and what is more, it does so from a still
rather rare comparative perspective, both chronological and
geographic. It is this interdisciplinary and comparative
perspective that enables us to scrutinize the interaction between
the individual majority societies and the Jewish minorities in a
longer time frame, and hence we are able to revisit complex and
manifold encounters between Jews and Gentiles, including but not
limited to propaganda, robbery, violence but also help and rescue.
In doing so, this collection challenges the representation of these
encounters in post-war literature, films, and the historical
consciousness. This book was originally published as a special
issue of Holocaust Studies.
Essays mapping the history of relief parcels sent to Jewish
prisoners during World War II. More than Parcels: Wartime Aid for
Jews in Nazi-Era Camps and Ghettos edited by Jan Lani?ek and Jan
Lambertz explores the horrors of the Holocaust by focusing on the
systematic starvation of Jewish civilians confined to Nazi ghettos
and camps. The modest relief parcel, often weighing no more than a
few pounds and containing food, medicine, and clothing, could
extend the lives and health of prisoners. For Jews in occupied
Europe, receiving packages simultaneously provided critical
emotional sustenance in the face of despair and grief. Placing
these parcels front and center in a history of World War II
challenges several myths about Nazi rule and Allied responses.
First, the traffic in relief parcels and remittances shows that the
walls of Nazi detention sites and the wartime borders separating
Axis Europe from the outside world were not hermetically sealed,
even for Jewish prisoners. Aid shipments were often damaged or
stolen, but they continued to be sent throughout the war. Second,
the flow of relief parcels-and prisoner requests for
them-contributed to information about the lethal nature of Nazi
detention sites. Aid requests and parcel receipts became one means
of transmitting news about the location, living conditions, and
fate of Jewish prisoners to families, humanitarians, and Jewish
advocacy groups scattered across the globe. Third, the contributors
to More than Parcels reveal that tens of thousands of individuals,
along with religious communities and philanthropies, mobilized
parcel relief for Jews trapped in Europe. Recent histories of
wartime rescue have focused on a handful of courageous activists
who hid or led Jews to safety under perilous conditions. The
parallel story of relief shipments is no less important. The
astonishing accounts offered in More than Parcels add texture and
depth to the story of organized Jewish responses to wartime
persecution that will be of interest to students and scholars of
Holocaust studies and modern Jewish history, as well as members of
professional associations with a focus on humanitarianism and human
rights.
Providing diverse insights into Jewish-Gentile relations in East
Central Europe from the outbreak of the Second World War until the
reestablishment of civic societies after the fall of Communism in
the late 1980s, this volume brings together scholars from various
disciplines - including history, sociology, political science,
cultural studies, film studies and anthropology - to investigate
the complexity of these relations, and their transformation, from
perspectives beyond the traditional approach that deals purely with
politics. This collection thus looks for interactions between the
public and private, and what is more, it does so from a still
rather rare comparative perspective, both chronological and
geographic. It is this interdisciplinary and comparative
perspective that enables us to scrutinize the interaction between
the individual majority societies and the Jewish minorities in a
longer time frame, and hence we are able to revisit complex and
manifold encounters between Jews and Gentiles, including but not
limited to propaganda, robbery, violence but also help and rescue.
In doing so, this collection challenges the representation of these
encounters in post-war literature, films, and the historical
consciousness. This book was originally published as a special
issue of Holocaust Studies.
Prague, 1940-1942. The Nazi-occupied city is locked in a reign of
terror under Reinhard Heydrich. The Jewish community experience
increasing levels of persecution, as rumours start to swirl of
deportation and an unknown, but widely feared, fate. Amidst the
chaos and devastation, Marie Bader, a widow age 56, has found love
again with a widower, her cousin Ernst Loewy. Ernst has fled to
Greece and the two correspond in a series of deeply heartfelt
letters which provide a unique perspective on this period of
heightening tension and anguish for the Jewish community. The
letters paint a vivid, moving and often dramatic picture of Jewish
life in occupied Prague, the way Nazi persecution affected Marie,
her increasingly strained family relationships, as well as the
effect on the wider Jewish community whilst Heydrich, one of the
key architects and executioners of the Holocaust and Reich
Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, established the Theresienstadt
ghetto and began to organize the deportation of Jews. Through this
deeply personal and moving account, the realities of Jewish life in
Heydrich's Prague are dramatically revealed.
In this analysis of the life of Arnost Frischer, an influential
Jewish nationalist activist, Jan Lanicek reflects upon how the
Jewish community in Czechoslovakia dealt with the challenges that
arose from their volatile relationship with the state authorities
in the first half of the 20th century. The Jews in the Bohemian
Lands experienced several political regimes in the period from 1918
to the late 1940s: the Habsburg Empire, the first democratic
Czechoslovak republic, the post-Munich authoritarian Czecho-Slovak
republic, the Nazi regime, renewed Czechoslovak democracy and the
Communist regime. Frischer's involvement in local and central
politics affords us invaluable insights into the relations and
negotiations between the Jewish activists and these diverse
political authorities in the Bohemian Lands. Vital coverage is also
given to the relatively under-researched subject of the Jewish
responses to the Nazi persecution and the attempts of the exiled
Jewish leadership to alleviate the plight of the Jews in occupied
Europe. The case study of Frischer and Czechoslovakia provides an
important paradigm for understanding modern Jewish politics in
Europe in the first half of the 20th century, making this a book of
great significance to all students and scholars interested in
Jewish history and Modern European history.
Essays mapping the history of relief parcels sent to Jewish
prisoners during World War II. More than Parcels: Wartime Aid for
Jews in Nazi-Era Camps and Ghettos edited by Jan Lani?ek and Jan
Lambertz explores the horrors of the Holocaust by focusing on the
systematic starvation of Jewish civilians confined to Nazi ghettos
and camps. The modest relief parcel, often weighing no more than a
few pounds and containing food, medicine, and clothing, could
extend the lives and health of prisoners. For Jews in occupied
Europe, receiving packages simultaneously provided critical
emotional sustenance in the face of despair and grief. Placing
these parcels front and center in a history of World War II
challenges several myths about Nazi rule and Allied responses.
First, the traffic in relief parcels and remittances shows that the
walls of Nazi detention sites and the wartime borders separating
Axis Europe from the outside world were not hermetically sealed,
even for Jewish prisoners. Aid shipments were often damaged or
stolen, but they continued to be sent throughout the war. Second,
the flow of relief parcels-and prisoner requests for
them-contributed to information about the lethal nature of Nazi
detention sites. Aid requests and parcel receipts became one means
of transmitting news about the location, living conditions, and
fate of Jewish prisoners to families, humanitarians, and Jewish
advocacy groups scattered across the globe. Third, the contributors
to More than Parcels reveal that tens of thousands of individuals,
along with religious communities and philanthropies, mobilized
parcel relief for Jews trapped in Europe. Recent histories of
wartime rescue have focused on a handful of courageous activists
who hid or led Jews to safety under perilous conditions. The
parallel story of relief shipments is no less important. The
astonishing accounts offered in More than Parcels add texture and
depth to the story of organized Jewish responses to wartime
persecution that will be of interest to students and scholars of
Holocaust studies and modern Jewish history, as well as members of
professional associations with a focus on humanitarianism and human
rights.
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