Authors: Francis R. Nicosia
ISBN-13: 9780521883924, ISBN-10: 052188392X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: May 2008
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Francis R. Nicosia has been a Professor of History at Saint Michael's College in Vermont since
1979. He is the co-author of The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust (2000) and the author of The Third Reich and the Palestine Question (2000). He has co-editied books that include Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany (2002), Business and Industry in Nazi Germany (2004) and edited two volumes the series Archives of the Holocaust (1990). He was also Senior Fulbright Research Scholar in Berlin from 1992-1993 and 2006- 2007, Revson Fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. in 2000, and was named Carnegie Foundation's Vermont Professor of the Year in 2000.
Book Synopsis
This is a study of the ideological and political relationship between Zionism and anti-Semitism in modern Germany.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
The Age of Emancipation in Imperial Germany 13
Zionism in Anti-Semitic Thought 13
Anti-Semitism in Zionist Thought 31
The Weimar Years 45
German Zionism and the First World War 45
German Zionism and the Nazi Threat 48
Early Nazi Views on Zionism 63
1933: Nazi Confusion, Zionist Illusion 74
In Search of Policy 74
Haavara 78
Between Illusion and Reality 90
Zionism in Nazi Jewish Policy, 1934-1938 106
State AGencies and Zionism 106
The Police and Zionism 111
A Jewish State 126
The SS and Zionism, 1938 134
German Zionism, 1934-1938: Confrontation with Reality 145
Optimism and Expansion 145
Economic Decline 156
Communal Relations 163
Disintegration and Isolation 174
Revisionist Zionism in Germany, 1934-1938 181
Unity Shattered 181
The State Zionist Organization 185
State Zionists, the ZVfD, and the Nazi Regime 189
Zionist Occupational Retraining and Nazi Jewish Policy 207
Jewish Occupational Retraining Programs 207
Nazi Policy and Jewish Occupational Retraining 228
From Dissolution to Final Solution 245
1938: Radicalization and Continuity 245
Emigration Continued 257
Zionism and Palestine 265
Resettlement, Emigration, Genocide 278
Conclusions 283
Bibliography 293
Index 309
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