Jewish Life in Nazi Germany

German Jews faced harsh dilemmas in their responses to Nazi persecution, partly a result of Nazi cruelty and brutality but also a result of an understanding of their history and rightful place in Germany. This volume addresses the impact of the anti-Jewish policies of Hitler's regime on Jewish family life, Jewish women, and the existence of Jewish organizations and institutions and considers some of the Jewish responses to Nazi anti-Semitism and persecution. This volume offers scholars, students, and interested readers a highly accessible but focused introduction to Jewish life under National Socialism, the often painful dilemmas that it produced, and the varied Jewish responses to those dilemmas.

Francis R. Nicosia is the Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany (2008), and The Third Reich and the Palestine Question (1985, 2000), and co-author with Donald Niewyk of the Columbia Guide to the Holocaust (2001).

Preface
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations Introduction: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany: Dilemmas and Responses
Francis R. Nicosia Chapter 1. Changing Roles in Jewish Families
Marion Kaplan Chapter 2. Evading Persecution: German-Jewish Behavior Patterns after 1933
Jürgen Matthäus Chapter 3. Jewish Self-Help in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939: The Dilemmas of Cooperation
Avraham Barkai Chapter 4. German Zionism and Jewish Life in Nazi Berlin
Francis R. Nicosia Chapter 5. Without Neighbors: Daily Living in Judenhäuser
Konrad Kwiet Chapter 6. Between Self-Assertion and Forced Collaboration: The Reich Association of Jews in Germany, 1939-1945
Beate Meyer Chapter 7. Jewish Culture in a Modern Ghetto: Theater and Scholarship among the Jews of Nazi Germany
Michael Brenner Appendixes A. Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, 7 April 1933
B. Proclamation of the New Reichsvertretung der deutschen Juden, September 1933
C. American Jewish Committee, -The Situation of the Jews in Germany,- 1 March 1935
D. Reich Citizenship Law, 15 September 1935
E. Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, 15 September 1935
F. American Jewish Committee, "The Jews in Germany Today," 1 June 1937
G. Letter from Georg Landauer to Martin Rosenblüth, 8 February 1938
H. Law Concerning the Legal Status of the Jewish Religious Communities, 29 March 1938
I. Regulation for the Elimination of the Jews from the Economic Life of Germany, 12 November 1938
J. Establishment of the Reich Central Office for Jewish Emigration, 24 January 1939
K. Establishment of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland, 4 July 1939 Contributors
Selected Bibliography
Index