August 11, 2016, 6:01 p.m.,
Browning, C. R.,
Allgemein.
American relief worker Tracy Strong Jr. played a key role in obtaining the transfer of young prisoners from Vichy internment camps in southern France to the Maison des Roches—a residence that he helped establish in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon—and in subsequently helping some of these young men to escape over the Swiss border. The author of this article bases his research primarily on journals and letters that Strong wrote at the time, which provide contemporary evidence for the central importance of the town's Huguenot congregation and its pastor, André Trocmé—an importance that some writers recently have attributed to postwar exaggeration and myth-making.
Quelle: http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/30/2/211?rss=1
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August 11, 2016, 6:01 p.m.,
O'Halpin, E.,
Allgemein.
Starting in 1933 the government of Afghanistan began excluding Jews from trade, forced them to move from frontiers to the main cities, and declared a policy of forcing all Jews to leave the country. British, British Indian, and American records, including decoded Afghan, German, Japanese, Italian, and Soviet communications, shed light on the stated security rationale for the new practices. While Afghanistan treated other minorities arbitrarily, Afghan Jews and Jewish refugees from Soviet Central Asia suffered the most sustained persecution. The author argues that while Nazi ideology, example, and propaganda had some influence on a key minister, the predominant drivers of policy were an ingrained antisemitism and the assumption that many Soviet Jews who sought refuge in Afghanistan were "Bolshevik" agents; hostility was accentuated from the late 1930s by a sense of Muslim solidarity on Palestine. The author has uncovered evidence that can help us understand why, after 1945, British, British Indian, and American officials neither influenced Kabul to treat its Jewish minority more humanely, nor enabled the emigration of beleaguered and impoverished Jewish communities.
Quelle: http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/30/2/298?rss=1
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August 11, 2016, 6:01 p.m.,
Meier, D. A.,
Allgemein.
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August 11, 2016, 6:01 p.m.,
Lee, S. H.,
Allgemein.
The Holocaust calls into question the very possibility of ethics. In his landmark book The Drowned and the Saved (first published in 1986), Primo Levi introduced the notion of a moral "gray zone." The author of this essay re-examines Levi's use of the term. He discusses some of the ways in which the expression has been misappropriated and misunderstood—and why this matters.
Quelle: http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/30/2/276?rss=1
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August 11, 2016, 6:01 p.m.,
Solonari, V.,
Allgemein.
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August 11, 2016, 6:01 p.m.,
Taylor, M. J.,
Allgemein.
An extensive literature portrays Harry Bingham, who served as American vice consul in Marseille, France between 1936 and 1941, as the single American diplomat who defied the Department of State's restrictive policy toward European Jewish refugees. However, empirical evidence does not always support what many now assume about Bingham's efforts. Examining Bingham's personnel file and his career at the Department of State, this article improves our understanding of what Bingham did for Jewish and intellectual refugees.
Quelle: http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/30/2/247?rss=1
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August 11, 2016, 6:01 p.m.,
Westermann, E. B.,
Allgemein.
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August 11, 2016, 7:14 a.m.,
Lena Jonson,
Allgemein.
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August 10, 2016, 2:25 p.m.,
Lori E. Amy,
Allgemein.
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August 10, 2016, 12:28 p.m.,
Jana Osterkamp,
Allgemein.
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