Giving considerable emphasis to an immense array of recently published material and a wealth of new archival findings, Saul Friedlander describes and interprets the steadily increasing anti-Jewish persecution in Germany after the 1933 Nazi accession to power. He demonstrates the…
Relates that the "New Synagogue" in the Oranienburger Strasse (Berlin) was saved from destruction in the "Kristallnacht" pogrom through the intervention of the district police chief, Wilhelm Krützfeld. He also warned Jews of their impending arrest, enabling them to escape. With …
Relates that the "New Synagogue" in the Oranienburger Strasse (Berlin) was saved from destruction in the "Kristallnacht" pogrom through the intervention of the district police chief, Wilhelm Krützfeld. He also warned Jews of their impending arrest, enabling them to escape. With …
"The book begins with the medieval images of converts from Judaism and traces the hurdles to social acceptance that they encountered in Germany through early modern times. Carlebach examines the converts' complicated search for community, a quest that was to characterize much of…
