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Holocaust and Rescue

Impotent or Indifferent? Anglo-Jewry 1938-1945

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  • © 2002

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  1. Pamela Shatzkes

    1. Department of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Pamela Shatzkes
    Pages 1-8

  3. ‘Englishmen of the Jewish Persuasion’

    • Pamela Shatzkes
    Pages 9-24

  4. ‘The Jewish Lions are no longer roaring’

    • Pamela Shatzkes
    Pages 25-44

  5. Escalating Crises: Austria and Czechoslovakia 1938–1939

    • Pamela Shatzkes
    Pages 45-64

  6. The Watershed: Kristallnacht and After

    • Pamela Shatzkes
    Pages 65-82

  7. Internment and Deportation

    • Pamela Shatzkes
    Pages 83-99

  8. Anglo-Jewry Mobilises (Summer 1942–Spring 1943)

    • Pamela Shatzkes
    Pages 100-133

  9. Pawns in the Game of War (Summer 1943–Autumn 1944)

    • Pamela Shatzkes
    Pages 134-162

  10. Rescue Efforts: A Chronicle of Failure?

    • Pamela Shatzkes
    Pages 163-187

  11. Relief Efforts: A Chronicle of Success?

    • Pamela Shatzkes
    Pages 188-215

  12. Conclusion: Lack of Will or Lack of Skill?

    • Pamela Shatzkes
    Pages 216-239

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 240-322
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About this book

This book challenges the widely held view which condemns as weak and half-hearted Anglo-Jewish efforts on behalf of European Jews during the Nazi period. Anglo-Jewish organizations achieved remarkable successes in the pre-war years, combining their administrative expertise with the financial guarantee of maintenance to accomplish the rescue of over fifty thousand refugees. By tragic contrast, their lack of political and diplomatic experience during wartime rendered them almost entirely incapable of influencing an intransigent government engaged in global war to save Jewish lives.

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'Dr Shatzkes has written a most important book on what for the Jewish communities in Britain has been one of the most tragic and disturbing passages in its history.' - Professor D.Cameron Watt

'This is a well-researched and thorough study...Shatzkes criticises historians who present a Jewish leadership concerned to ingratiate itself with the higher social order, and therefore unable to represent its constituents. She argues that the Board's tactics may have been flawed, but its motivation was not.' - Electronic Telegraph

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

    Pamela Shatzkes

About the author

PAMELA SHATZKES is a Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics. She is author of a study of the Jews who found refuge in Japan during the war, Kobe, A Japanese Haven for Jewish Refugees, 1940-1941, which was awarded the LSE prize for English prose and the Ivan Morris Memorial Prize of the British Association for Japanese Studies.

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