The crime of my very existence : Nazism and the myth of Jewish criminality /
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| Author / Creator: | Berkowitz, Michael. |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. |
| Description: | xxix, 321 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6487860 |
| Summary: | The Crime of My Very Existence investigates a rarely considered yet critical dimension of anti-Semitism that was instrumental in the conception and perpetration of the Holocaust: the association of Jews with criminality. Drawing from a rich body of documentary evidence, including memoirs and little-studied photographs, Michael Berkowitz traces the myths and realities pertinent to the discourse on "Jewish criminality" from the eighteenth century through the Weimar Republic, into the complex Nazi assault on the Jews, and extending into postwar Europe. |
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| Physical Description: | xxix, 321 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-299) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520251120 0520251121 9780520251144 0520251148 |
