JWST 303- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 63 pages long!)
13 Oct 2017
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On reading a shtetl: social tensions in jewish life avoids ideological commitment internal conflict in community over modern politics. Political culture and ideology vs. practice ~ disjuncture. March 9, 2017 thesis of the holocaust does not fit the same phenomenon in soviet union: separation and dehumanisation not present. Communists: not just hitler"s world ~ apparent in all of central europe context of anti-semitism everywhere. The racial struggle ~ had to destroy enemies, not just beat: murder viewed from the beginning as a legitimate policy for racial supremacy. 1939 legislation begins excluding jews from public life and introductions fall 1938-1939 violence becomes common and accepted two third of german jews emigrate (largely to western europe) Germans initially interested in kicking jews out of germany: but this changes when germany inherits millions of jews as it spreads into poland etc. summer 1940 ghettos already in place.
