Les conseils juifs en Pologne orientale et en Union soviétique sous l’occupation Allemande
Dean, Martin
Les conseils juifs en Pologne orientale et en Union soviétique sous l’occupation Allemande - 2006.
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Despite certain weaknesses in terms of sources, Isaiah Trunk’s analysis of the Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe remains the most effective treatment of the subject. However, since it was written, the opening of the Soviet archives in the 1990s has expanded the regional scope of our knowledge to include Jewish Councils in some of the numerous ghettos that existed mostly only for a short period beyond the pre-1939 Polish borders.The aim of this article will be to take Trunk’s analytical framework and apply it to some of the smaller and less well-known ghettos of (pre-1939) eastern Poland and also the former Soviet Union, including the occupied parts of Russia. Despite the availability of only fragmentary sources for these areas, a comparison can be made of certain aspects of these Councils with the pattern described by Trunk mainly for the central and western Polish territories.Among the issues discussed in the article are the establishment, composition and functions of the Jewish Councils, the role of women, the issue of Jewish social welfare and the attitudes of Jews toward the Councils. While the evidence confirms that many Jewish Councils acted as a break on the development of resistance, other documentation shows that they energetically intervened to ameliorate living conditions in the ghettos. It was personal corruption rather more than obedience to impossible German demands (made with the threat of death) that alienated some Jews from their leaders.
Les conseils juifs en Pologne orientale et en Union soviétique sous l’occupation Allemande - 2006.
71
Despite certain weaknesses in terms of sources, Isaiah Trunk’s analysis of the Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe remains the most effective treatment of the subject. However, since it was written, the opening of the Soviet archives in the 1990s has expanded the regional scope of our knowledge to include Jewish Councils in some of the numerous ghettos that existed mostly only for a short period beyond the pre-1939 Polish borders.The aim of this article will be to take Trunk’s analytical framework and apply it to some of the smaller and less well-known ghettos of (pre-1939) eastern Poland and also the former Soviet Union, including the occupied parts of Russia. Despite the availability of only fragmentary sources for these areas, a comparison can be made of certain aspects of these Councils with the pattern described by Trunk mainly for the central and western Polish territories.Among the issues discussed in the article are the establishment, composition and functions of the Jewish Councils, the role of women, the issue of Jewish social welfare and the attitudes of Jews toward the Councils. While the evidence confirms that many Jewish Councils acted as a break on the development of resistance, other documentation shows that they energetically intervened to ameliorate living conditions in the ghettos. It was personal corruption rather more than obedience to impossible German demands (made with the threat of death) that alienated some Jews from their leaders.
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