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Focusing on the choices and actions of Jews during the Holocaust, Ordinary Jews examines the different patterns of behavior of civilians targeted by mass violence. Relying on rich archival material and hundreds of survivors' testimonies, Evgeny Finkel presents a new framework for understanding the survival strategies in which Jews engaged: cooperation and collaboration, coping and compliance, evasion, and resistance. Finkel compares Jews' behavior in three Jewish ghettos--Minsk, Kraków, and Bialystok--and shows that Jews' responses to Nazi genocide varied based on their experiences with prewar policies that either promoted or discouraged their integration into non-Jewish society. Exploring the critical influences shaping the decisions made by Jews in Nazi-occupied eastern Europe, Ordinary Jews sheds new light on the dynamics of collective violence and genocide.

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• Full title: Ordinary Jews
• Author: Evgeny Finkel
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9780691172576
• ISBN: 0691172579
• ID: 14433336
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 614 g
• Dimensions: 167 × 243 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. March 2017

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