The crime of my very existence: Nazism and the myth of Jewish criminality
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Main Author: Berkowitz, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press ©2007
Series:S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-299) and index
Above suspicion? : facts, myths, and lies about Jews and crime -- The construction of "Jewish criminality" in Nazi Germany -- The self-fulfilling prophecy of the ghettos -- Inverting the innocent and the criminal in concentration camps -- Re-presenting Zionism as the apex of global conspiracy -- Lingering stereotypes and Jewish displaced persons -- Jewish DPs confronting the law : prescriptions, self-perceptions, and pride of self-control
Berkowitz investigates a dimension of anti-Semitism that was instrumental in the making of the Holocaust: the association of Jews with criminality. He traces the myths and realities about Jewish criminality from the 18th century to the Weimar Republic and on into the Nazi assault upon the Jews
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 321 pages)
ISBN:0520251121
0520251148
0520940687
1435601998
9780520251120
9780520251144
9780520940680
9781435601994

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