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On the Margins : Essays on the History of Jews in Estonia /

Estonia is perhaps the only country in Europe that lacks a comprehensive history of its Jewish minority. Spanning over 150 years of Estonian Jewish history, 'On the Margins' is a truly unique book. Rebuilding a life beyond so-called Pale of Jewish Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Jewi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weiss-Wendt, Anton, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Central European University Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Title page ; copyright page ; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Preface (by Antony Polonsky); Studying Estonian Jewish History: A Professional and Personal Journey; 1. New in Town: Jews in Narva, 1874-1917; 2. Thanks to the Germans! Jewish Cultural Autonomy in Interwar Estonia; 3. The Soviet Occupation of Estonia in 1940-41 and the Jews; 4. Accidentally Jewish: Helmut Weiss and the (Il)logic of Political Violence in Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia; 5. Ordinary People Facing the Holocaust: The Estonian Security Police Investigation Files, 1941-42.
  • 6. The End Complete: The Destruction of Jews in Provincial Cities7. The Business of Survival: Baltic Oil Ltd. and Jewish Forced Labor Camps in Estonia; 8. Estonian Perpetrators of the Holocaust in the Annals of the Cold War: The Prosecution of War Criminals in the Soviet Union, 1943-1987; 9. Why the Holocaust Does Not Matter to Estonians; Appendix: Primary Sources on Estonian Jewish History until 1941; Select Bibliography; Index.