LEADER 05510cam a2200805 i 4500001 278611 005 20240621234659.0 008 210330t20212021onc b 001 0 eng 010 2021275913 015 20200390031 |2can 020 9781487523541 |q(paper) 020 1487523548 020 9781487504922 |q(cloth) 020 1487504926 020 |z9781487531171 |q(EPUB) 020 |z9781487531164 |q(PDF) 035 (OCoLC)on1204664081 035 278611 042 lac 043 e-pl---e-li--- 049 LHMA 041 1 eng |hger 040 NLC |beng |erda |cNLC |dNLC |dBDX |dYDX |dOCLCF |dVTU |dYDX |dJ9U |dNLC |dDLC |dIL4J6 |dLHM 050 4 DS134.64 |b.B4813 2021 100 1 Bethke, Svenja, |eauthor. 240 10 Tanz auf Messers Schneide. |lEnglish 245 10 Dance on the razor's edge : |bcrime and punishment in the Nazi ghettos / |cSvenja Bethke ; translated by Sharon Howe. 264 1 Toronto ;Buffalo ;London : |bUniversity of Toronto Press, |c[2021] 264 4 |c©2021 300 x, 285 pages ; |c23 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 German and European studies ; |v39 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-269) and index. 500 Translation of: Tanz auf Messers Schneide : Kriminalität und Recht in den Ghettos Warschau, Litzmannstadt und Wilna. 505 0 Nazi Jewish Policy in Eastern Europe and the Perspective of the Jewish Councils -- Jewish Council Proclamations: Definitions of Criminal Activity -- The Jewish Police as an Executive Organ -- The Ghetto Courts -- The Ghetto Penal System -- Ordinary Ghetto Residents and Their Relationship with Internal and External Authorities. 520 "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."-- |cProvided by publisher. 530 Issued also in electronic format. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |zPoland |zWarsaw. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |zPoland |zŁódź. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |zLithuania |zVilnius. 650 0 Crime prevention |zPoland |zWarsaw. 650 0 Crime prevention |zPoland |zŁódź. 650 0 Crime prevention |zLithuania |zVilnius. 650 6 Holocauste, 1939-1945 |zPologne |zVarsovie. |0(CaQQLa)201-0011801 |0(CaQQLa)201-0493635 650 6 Holocauste, 1939-1945 |zPologne |zŁódź. |0(CaQQLa)201-0011801 |0(CaQQLa)201-0493641 650 6 Holocauste, 1939-1945 |zLituanie |zVilnious. |0(CaQQLa)201-0011801 |0(CaQQLa)201-0426372 650 6 Criminalité |xPrévention |zPologne |zVarsovie. |0(CaQQLa)201-0007209 |0(CaQQLa)201-0493635 650 6 Criminalité |xPrévention |zPologne |zŁódź. |0(CaQQLa)201-0007209 |0(CaQQLa)201-0493641 650 6 Criminalité |xPrévention |zLituanie |zVilnious. |0(CaQQLa)201-0007209 |0(CaQQLa)201-0426372 650 7 Crime prevention. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00883055 651 7 Lithuania |zVilnius. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01223003 651 7 Poland |zŁódź. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01209506 651 7 Poland |zWarsaw. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204515 647 7 Jewish Holocaust |d(1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00958866 648 7 1939-1945 |2fast 650 7 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |zEurope, Eastern. |2nli 650 7 Jewish ghettos |zPoland |zWarsaw. |2nli 650 7 Jewish ghettos |zLithuania |zVilnius. |2nli 650 7 Jewish councils. |2nli 650 7 Crime prevention. |2nli 651 7 Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland) |2nli 700 1 Howe, Sharon, |etranslator. 776 08 |iOnline version:Bethke, Svenja. |sTanz auf Messers Schneide. English. |tDance on the razor's edge. |dToronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021 |z1487531176 |z9781487531171 |w(OCoLC)1204664025 830 0 German and European studies ; |v39. 856 40 |uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ushmm/detail.action?docID=6475848 |zHosted by ProQuest |3Electronic version(s) available. 852 |bebook 852 0 |bscstacks |hDS134.64 |i.B4813 2021