Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Robinson Nehemiah
Title : European jewry ten years after the war An account of the development and present status of the decimated Jewish communities of Europe
Year : 1956

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Preface. This volume, prepared and published under my direction, is in a sense a companion volume to the Institute publication Hitler’s Ten Year War on the Jews published in 1943, which has remained to this day a standard work in this field: it deals with practically the same nations and its aim is to show what happened to the Jews in those countries over which the Nazis had extended their rule between 1933 and 1945. The present volume is intended, mainly, for readers who are not experts. on a particular country or region and are interested in the facts rather than in source material. Although the volume is dedicated to the postwar period, some information on the period before that time is given. Frequently, it would be difficult to understand the present era without this information. The authors of the various articles had to submit to certain common rules of presentation. However, no attempt was made to put them in a straight jacket of total uniformity. This would undoubtedly have led to a greater uniformity of the articles but would have destroyed the individuality of the studies. Furthermore, the background, the history, and the development in the various countries differ so much that total uniformity could not be achieved anyhow. ...