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Rescue, relief, and resistance : the Jewish Labor Committee's anti-Nazi operations, 1934-1945 / Catherine Collomp ; translated by Susan Emanuel.

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Author/Creator:
Collomp, Catherine, author.
Contributor:
Emanuel, Susan, translator.
ProQuest ebook central.
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)
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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).
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Print version: Collomp, Catherine Rescue, Relief, and Resistance
ISBN:
0814346219
9780814346211
Publisher Number:
40030514027
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