Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940–1943
This assiduously researched volume offers a critical and judicious analysis of the experience of assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. The scope of the study is modest. Yet, as the author convincingly argues, assimilated Jews—though still a minority within the broader community—were active in Jewis...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2016
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 136-139 |
| Review of: | Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto (Syracuse, NY : Syracuse Univ. Press, 2014) (Horwitz, Gordon J.)
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| Summary: | This assiduously researched volume offers a critical and judicious analysis of the experience of assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. The scope of the study is modest. Yet, as the author convincingly argues, assimilated Jews—though still a minority within the broader community—were active in Jewish organizations and highly visible. They were also the object of considerable commentary, much of it tinged with suspicion and hostility. As in the era prior to the war, their perceived advantages of education, wealth, status, and privilege, as well as their devotion to Polish language and culture, cast doubt upon the depth of their identification with and concern for their fellow Jews. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcw009 |