Jewish Councils
Seminar questions:
What was the function of the Jewish Councils for the Germans?
What are the critical dilemmas Trunk brings up?
Could the Jews realistically understand the Germans' plans with them?
What is Diner's argument on the counterrationality?
Core readings:
Further readings:
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Philip Friedman, Roads to Extinction: Essays on the Holocaust (New York: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1980).
Anna H谩jkov谩, "The Last of the Self-Righteous: Claude Lanzmann鈥檚 version of Benjamin Murmelstein," histoire@politique 18 September 2014, http://www.histoire-politique.fr/index.php?numero=38&rub=comptes-rendus&item=499
Calel Perechodnik, Am I a Murderer?: Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman, ed. and trans. Frank Fox (Boulder, Colo., 1996).
Katarzyna Person, Jewish Police in the Warsaw Ghetto (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, forthcoming winter 2021).
Beate Meyer, A fatal balancing act : the dilemma of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany, 1939-1945(New York: Berghahn, 2013)
Doron Rabinovici, Eichmann's Jews : the Jewish administration of Holocaust Vienna, 1938-1945 (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011).
Aharon Weiss, 鈥淭he Relations between the Judenrat and the Jewish Police,鈥� in Patterns of Jewish Leadership in Nazi Europe 1933–1945: Proceedings of the Third Yad Vashem International Historical Conference, ed. Yisrael Gutman and Cynthia J. Haft (Jerusalem, 1979), pp. 201–217, 228–233.