Jewish honor courts: revenge, retribution and reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust.
TitelJewish honor courts: revenge, retribution and reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust.
Call number940.5318/0448
Objectnummer04759
Plaats van uitgaveDetroit, Michigan, United States
UitgeverWayne State University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2015
Pagina'sviii,387p.,index
MateriaalBoek
ISBN9780814338773
Beschrijving
After World War II, virtually all European countries struggled with the dilemma of citizens who had collaborated with Nazi occupiers. Jewish communities in particular faced the difficult task of confronting collaborators among their own ranks-those who had served on Jewish councils, worked as ghetto police, or acted as informants. European Jews established their own tribunals-honor courts-for dealing with these crimes, while Israel held dozens of court cases against alleged collaborators under a law passed two years after its founding. This book bring together scholars of Jewish social, cultural, political, and legal history to examine this little-studied chapter of Jewish history.