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Rescue, relief, and resistance : the Jewish Labor Committee's anti-Nazi operations, 1934-1945 / Catherine Collomp ; translated by Susan Emanuel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collomp, Catherine, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Résister au nazisme. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.)--History--20th century.
- Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.).
- Jewish labor unions--Political activity--United States.
- Jewish labor unions.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Political participation.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (363 pages)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Foundations
- Precedence in Nazi Persecution
- Creating the Jewish Labor Committee
- Anchored in the Jewish Labor Movement
- Political Origins in the Bund
- Baruch Charney Vladeck and the Bundist Generation
- Socialists, Not Communists
- Jews but Not Zionists
- The JLC, the AFL, and the CIO
- Anti-Semitism and U.S. Immigration Restrictions
- Overcoming Quotas
- 2. Constructing International Links: 1933-1937
- Weakness of International Labor, American Isolationism
- A First German Network of Information and Solidarity
- Walter Citrine in the United States
- An Italian Branch
- Helping the Spanish Republicans
- 3. Politics of Anti-Nazism, 1935-1939
- Boycott of German Goods
- The Counter-Olympics of 1936
- A New York Labor Party
- Anti-Nazi Resistance: Links with Neu Beginnen
- Inferno Begins in Poland
- 4. Trajectories of Exile, Rescue Operations
- An Opening in Washington
- Establishing Lists
- Frank Bohn and Varian Fry in Marseille
- Across Siberia and Japan: "One Miracle after Another"
- The Socialist International in New York?
- Assessing the Numbers
- Shared Honors
- Limits of Political Emigration
- Illustrations
- 5. With the French Resistance
- Paul Vignaux: A Messenger from French Labor
- The Committee for Socialist Action and France Libre
- Voice of the Unconquered
- Supporting Underground Labor Movements
- The AFL and the CIO Come into Play
- The Free French
- The OSS behind the Scenes
- Saving the Cercle Amical-Arbeter Ring
- Reconstructing Jewish Life
- Coda: Léon Blum: "Here I Feel at Home"
- 6. Fire and Ashes in Poland
- The German-Soviet Pact
- Humanitarian Aid for the Jews in Russia
- The Erlich and Alter Affair
- Early Knowledge of the Unthinkable
- Of Money and Weapons
- Publish, Inform, Act
- "When the Long Night Is Over"
- The JLC and Palestine
- Afterword: Memory and Silence
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 05, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Collomp, Catherine Rescue, Relief, and Resistance
- ISBN:
- 0814346219
- 9780814346211
- Publisher Number:
- 40030514027
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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