Jewish honor courts : revenge, retribution, and reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust / edited by Laura Jockusch, Gabriel N. Finder.

Revenge, retribution, and reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2015]

viii, 387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm

"Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in the Postwar Jewish World / Laura Jockusch and Gabriel N. Finder -- Why Punish Collaborators? / David Engel -- Rehabilitating the Past? Jewish Honor Courts in Allied-Occupied Germany / Laura Jockusch -- Judenrat on Trial: Postwar Polish Jewry Sits in Judgment of its Wartime Leadership / Gabriel N. Finder -- An Unresolved Controversy: The Jewish Honor Court in the Netherlands, 1946-1950 / Ido De Haan -- Jurys d'honneur: The Stakes and Limits of Purges Among Jews in France After Liberation / Simon Perego -- Viennese Jewish Functionaries on Trial: Accusations, Defense Strategies, and Hidden Agendas / Helga Embacher -- "The Lesser Evil" of Jewish Collaboration? The Absence of a Jewish Honor Court in Postwar Belgium / Veerle Vanden Daelen and Nico Wouters -- Jews Accusing Jews: Denunciations of Alleged Collaborators in Jewish Honor Courts / Katarzyna Person -- "I'm Going to the Oven Because I wouldn't Give Myself to Him": The Role of Gender in the Polish Jewish Civic Court / Ewa Kozminska-Frejlak -- Revenge and Reconciliation: Early Israeli Literature and the Dilemma of Jewish Collaborators with the Nazis / Gali Drucker Bar-Am -- Changing Legal Perceptions of "Nazi Collaborators" in Israel, 1950-1972 / Dan Porat -- The Gray Zone of Collaboration and the Israeli Courtroom / Rivka Brot.