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The crime of my very existence : Nazism and the myth of Jewish criminality / Michael Berkowitz.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studiesPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 321 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520940680
  • 0520940687
  • 9781435601994
  • 1435601998
  • 1282772171
  • 9781282772175
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Crime of my very existence.DDC classification:
  • 305.892/404309043 22
LOC classification:
  • DS146.G4 B484 2007eb
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Contents:
Above suspicion? : facts, myths, and lies about Jews and crime -- The construction of "Jewish criminality" in Nazi Germany -- The self-fulfilling prophecy of the ghettos -- Inverting the innocent and the criminal in concentration camps -- Re-presenting Zionism as the apex of global conspiracy -- Lingering stereotypes and Jewish displaced persons -- Jewish DPs confronting the law : prescriptions, self-perceptions, and pride of self-control.
Summary: Berkowitz investigates a dimension of anti-Semitism that was instrumental in the making of the Holocaust: the association of Jews with criminality. He traces the myths and realities about Jewish criminality from the 18th century to the Weimar Republic and on into the Nazi assault upon the Jews.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-299) and index.

Above suspicion? : facts, myths, and lies about Jews and crime -- The construction of "Jewish criminality" in Nazi Germany -- The self-fulfilling prophecy of the ghettos -- Inverting the innocent and the criminal in concentration camps -- Re-presenting Zionism as the apex of global conspiracy -- Lingering stereotypes and Jewish displaced persons -- Jewish DPs confronting the law : prescriptions, self-perceptions, and pride of self-control.

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Berkowitz investigates a dimension of anti-Semitism that was instrumental in the making of the Holocaust: the association of Jews with criminality. He traces the myths and realities about Jewish criminality from the 18th century to the Weimar Republic and on into the Nazi assault upon the Jews.

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