Dance on the razor's edge : crime and punishment in the Nazi ghettos /

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Author / Creator:Bethke, Svenja, author.
Uniform title:Tanz auf Messers Schneide. English
Imprint:Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
Description:x, 285 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:German and European studies ; 39
German and European studies ; 39.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12577788
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Other authors / contributors:Howe, Sharon, translator.
ISBN:9781487523541
1487523548
9781487504922
1487504926
Notes:Translation of: Tanz auf Messers Schneide : Kriminalität und Recht in den Ghettos Warschau, Litzmannstadt und Wilna.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued also in electronic format.
Summary:"The ghettos established by the Nazis in German-occupied Eastern Europe during the Second World War have mainly been seen as lawless spaces marked by brutality, tyranny, and the systematic murder of the Jewish population. Drawing on examples from the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna ghettos, Dance on the Razor's Edge explores how under these circumstances highly improvised legal spheres emerged in these coerced and heterogeneous ghetto communities. Looking at sources from multiple archives and countries, this book investigates how the Jewish Councils, set up on German orders, formulated new definitions of criminal offenses and established legal institutions on their own initiative as a desperate attempt to ensure the survival of the ghetto communities. Bethke explores how people under these circumstances tried to make sense of everyday lives that had been turned upside down, taking with them pre-war notions of justice and morality, and considers the extent to which this rupture led to new judgments on human behaviour. In doing so, this book aims to understand how people attempted to use their very limited scope for action in order to survive. Set against the background of a Holocaust historiography that often still seeks for clear categories of "good" and "bad" behaviour, Dance on the Razor's Edge calls for a new understanding of the ghettos as complex communities in an unprecedented emergency situation."--
Other form:Online version: Bethke, Svenja. Tanz auf Messers Schneide. English. Dance on the razor's edge. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021 1487531176 9781487531171

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