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Bitter Reckoning : Israel Tries Holocaust Survivors as Nazi Collaborators / Dan Porat.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674243125
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.53/18 23
LOC classification:
  • D810.C696 P67 2019eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. From Revenge to Retribution in Post-Nazi Europe -- 2. Tensions among Survivors in Mandatory Palestine -- 3. The Nazis and Nazi Collaborators Punishment Law -- 4. Preliminary Court Examinations -- 5. Weighing the Actions of Jewish Collaborators -- 6. Did Jewish Kapos Commit Crimes against Humanity? -- 7. The First Doubts about the Kapo Trials -- 8. Judging a Nazi and Reframing Collaboration -- 9. Absolving Ordinary Functionaries -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index
Summary: Digging into newly declassified archives, Dan Porat unearths the story of Jews prosecuted by the State of Israel for Nazi collaboration. Over time courts and the public came to see Jewish ghetto administrators or kapos as tragic figures. Rigorous yet humane, Porat invites us to rethink ideas about victimhood, justice, and collective memory.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. From Revenge to Retribution in Post-Nazi Europe -- 2. Tensions among Survivors in Mandatory Palestine -- 3. The Nazis and Nazi Collaborators Punishment Law -- 4. Preliminary Court Examinations -- 5. Weighing the Actions of Jewish Collaborators -- 6. Did Jewish Kapos Commit Crimes against Humanity? -- 7. The First Doubts about the Kapo Trials -- 8. Judging a Nazi and Reframing Collaboration -- 9. Absolving Ordinary Functionaries -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index

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Digging into newly declassified archives, Dan Porat unearths the story of Jews prosecuted by the State of Israel for Nazi collaboration. Over time courts and the public came to see Jewish ghetto administrators or kapos as tragic figures. Rigorous yet humane, Porat invites us to rethink ideas about victimhood, justice, and collective memory.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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