{"product_id":"eichmanns-jews-9780745646824","title":"Eichmanns Jews","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* This is a major new study of the very sensitive question of the collaboration of Jews with the Nazi regime.     * The book uses newly discovered archival material to examine the role of the    Judenrat    or Jewish Council in Holocaust Vienna.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An important and moving depiction of how Jewish leaders coped with Nazi oppression.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rabinovici's judgments are sensitive and evidence-based. He concludes that the myth of Jewish collaboration and individual self-preservation was part of a post-Holocaust identity resting on the comforting fantasy that those who did not co-operate had resisted. In fact, the Jewish leaders inevitably shared the hopes and delusions of their communities and it was this common fate that makes their role so tragic.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eJewish Chronicle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A calm and careful analysis of what happened in one major centre of Jewish life.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBirmingham Jewish Recorder\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A unique and candid account of the internal workings of the Jewish community in Vienna during the war. Doron Rabinovici has the courage and the gall to address directly the question of how much Eichmann's Jews facilitated the Holocaust.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Goodrich, Cardozo School of Law, New York\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An extremely well-researched and well-documented book.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rabinovici's \u003ci\u003eEichmann's Jews\u003c\/i\u003e, together with Hannah Arendt's book on Eichmann, belong among the fundamental texts of political philosophy of the 20th and 21st centuries.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDie Tageszeitung \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Rabinovici is not only an historian but also a great stylist and essayist... His wonderful prose is complemented by the meticulousness of his research. For the reader it is a stroke of luck not only that he knows how to report the facts but also that he is able to express their psychological ambivalence in a literary fashion.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Prologue.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSurvivor guilt.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBreaching taboos.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNo mass murder without victims.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Vienna Kultusgemeinde before 1938.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSecuring evidence - at the scene of the crime.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJewish strategies to counter anti-Semitism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe corporate state - in the shadow of the Third Reich.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Persecution.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe German invasion and the Austrian response.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExpropriation through the deprivation of rights.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe hunt for booty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Struggle for survival and escape.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe decapitation of the Jewish Community.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe attempt to escape or 'Get rid of the Yids and keep their money here.'\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 The Vienna Jewish community under Nazi control.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe reorganization of the Kultusgemeinde.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJewish self-help and welfare.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Emigration' - mass expulsion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIllegal escape.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 November pogrom - overture to murder.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 The Jewish community after the pogrom.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEscape as a last resort.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFunctionaries: victims and messengers of terror.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdministration during the terror.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBenjamin Murmelstein.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe employees in the system.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLateral entrants.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Beginning of the end.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNisko or the dress rehearsal for deportation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSegregation, concentration and theft.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Deportation and extermination.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 The administration of extermination.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSegregation and identification or a Jewish star for 10 pfennigs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiquidation - expropriation to the last.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesignation and handing over of victims.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWelfare and burial service - administration in the shadow of destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 Die Kultusgemeinde - authorities without power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndividual stories.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe victims' perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe administration and its employees.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe conditioning of leading functionaries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuestions of character - individual Jewish functionaries before and after 1945.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 Discussion of the Jewish councils and the situation in Vienna.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of abbreviations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex of persons.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404389687639,"sku":"9780745646824","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745646824.jpg?v=1730486312","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/eichmanns-jews-9780745646824","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}