Jewish Life in Nazi Germany

Francis R. Nicosia is the Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany (2008), and The Third Reich and the Palestine Question (1985, 2000), and co-author with Donald Niewyk of the Columbia Guide to the Holocaust (2001). David Scrase is Professor of German and the founding director of the Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont (1993 - 2006). He is the author of Wilhelm Lehmann. A Critical Biography (1984), and Understanding Johannes Bobrowski (1995). He has edited and contributed to several books on the Holocaust and on German literature, and has translated widely from German.

"This fine collection of essays by leading scholars covers a broad scope of German-Jewish responses to Nazi policies ranging from self-help and everyday endurance to the Zionist alternative and racial recategorization to avoid deportation. The accessible style and continuity make this volume suitable for undergraduate or advanced classes on German or Jewish history or on the Holocaust itself. The excellent documentary annex makes the book especially helpful." * Norman JW Goda, Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Florida " - a well written volume - Each essay furnishes very useful, unique information about everyday Jewish life in Nazi Germany and the way in which such activities changed as conditions worsened. This approach is not often found in Holocaust scholarship - There is also a very useful appendix of primary source documents. This book is highly recommended for Holocaust collections." * Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter

• Preface List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany: Dilemmas and Responses Francis R. Nicosia Chapter 1. Changing Roles in Jewish Families Marion Kaplan Chapter 2. Evading Persecution: German-Jewish Behavior Patterns after 1933 Jurgen Matthaus Chapter 3. Jewish Self-Help in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939: The Dilemmas of Cooperation Avraham Barkai Chapter 4. German Zionism and Jewish Life in Nazi Berlin Francis R. Nicosia Chapter 5. Without Neighbors: Daily Living in Judenhauser Konrad Kwiet Chapter 6. Between Self-Assertion and Forced Collaboration: The Reich Association of Jews in Germany, 1939-1945 Beate Meyer Chapter 7. Jewish Culture in a Modern Ghetto: Theater and Scholarship among the Jews of Nazi Germany Michael Brenner Appendixes A. Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, 7 April 1933 B. Proclamation of the New Reichsvertretung der deutschen Juden, September 1933 C. American Jewish Committee; The Situation of the Jews in Germany; 1 March 1935 D. Reich Citizenship Law, 15 September 1935 E. Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, 15 September 1935 F. American Jewish Committee, "The Jews in Germany Today," 1 June 1937 G. Letter from Georg Landauer to Martin Rosenbluth, 8 February 1938 H. Law Concerning the Legal Status of the Jewish Religious Communities, 29 March 1938 I. Regulation for the Elimination of the Jews from the Economic Life of Germany, 12 November 1938 J. Establishment of the Reich Central Office for Jewish Emigration, 24 January 1939 K. Establishment of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland, 4 July 1939 Contributors Selected Bibliography Index