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Jewish honor courts, revenge, retribution, and reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust, edited by Laura Jockusch, Gabriel N. Finder

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Jewish honor courts

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edited by Laura Jockusch, Gabriel N. Finder

revenge, retribution, and reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust

"In the aftermath of 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. In Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust, editors Laura Jockusch and Gabriel N. Finder bring together scholars of Jewish social, cultural, political, and legal history to examine this little-studied and fascinating postwar chapter of Jewish history."--Provided by publisher

Introduction: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in the Postwar Jewish World / Laura Jockusch and Gabriel N. Finder -- Why Punish Collaborators? / David Engel -- Rehabilitating the Past? Jewish Honor Courts in Allied-Occupied Germany / Laura Jockusch -- Judenrat on Trial: Postwar Polish Jewry Sits in Judgment of its Wartime Leadership / Gabriel N. Finder -- An Unresolved Controversy: The Jewish Honor Court in the Netherlands, 1946-1950 / Ido De Haan -- Jurys d'honneur: The Stakes and Limits of Purges Among Jews in France After Liberation / Simon Perego -- Viennese Jewish Functionaries on Trial: Accusations, Defense Strategies, and Hidden Agendas / Helga Embacher -- 'The Lesser Evil' of Jewish Collaboration? The Absence of a Jewish Honor Court in Postwar Belgium / Veerle Vanden Daelen and Nico Wouters -- Jews Accusing Jews: Denunciations of Alleged Collaborations in Jewish Honor Courts / Katarzyna Person -- 'I'm Going to the Oven Because I wouldn't Give Myself to Him': The Role of Gender in the Polish Jewish Civic Court / Ewa Kozminska-Frejlak -- Revenge and Reconciliation: Early Israeli Literature and the Dilemma of Jewish Collaborations with the Nazis / Gali Drucker Bar-Am -- Changing Legal Perceptions of 'Nazi Collaborators' in Israel, 1950-1972 / Dan Porat -- The Gray Zone of Collaboration and the Israeli Courtroom / Rivka Brot

Revenge, retribution, and reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust