Beschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
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.
