TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Dance on the razor's edge : crime and punishment in the Nazi ghettos
T2  - German and European Studies
A1  - Bethke, Svenja, kirjoittaja
A2  - Howe, Sharon, kääntäjä
LA  - eng
PP  - Toronto ; Buffalo ; London
PB  - University of Toronto Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5555861
AB  - "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."--
NO  - Translation of: Tanz auf Messers Schneide : Kriminalität und Recht in den Ghettos Warschau, Litzmannstadt und Wilna.
SN  - 978-1-4875-0492-2 kovakantinen
SN  - 1487504926
SN  - 978-1-4875-2354-1 pehmeäkantinen
KW  - 1939-1945
KW  - toinen maailmansota
KW  - holokausti
KW  - rikokset
KW  - rangaistukset
KW  - rikoksentorjunta
KW  - ghetot
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) : Poland : Warsaw.
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) : Lithuania : Vilnius.
KW  - Crime prevention : Poland : Warsaw.
KW  - Crime prevention : Lithuania : Vilnius.
KW  - Crime prevention.
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) : Europe, Eastern.
KW  - Jewish ghettos : Poland : Warsaw.
KW  - Jewish ghettos : Lithuania : Vilnius.
KW  - Jewish councils.
KW  - Liettua
KW  - Vilna
KW  - Puola
KW  - Varsova
KW  - Lithuania : Vilnius.
KW  - Poland : Warsaw.
ER  -