Tanz auf Messers Schneide. Kriminalität und Recht in den Ghettos Warschau, Litzmannstadt und Wilna
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leicester
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 383
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Hamburger Edition
- ISBN
- 978-3-86854-295-0
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This single-authored monograph of 317 pages is the result of 5 years research including accessing 8 archives in 4 countries (Germany, Israel, Poland, USA). It draws on highly original and largely unexplored archival material in five languages, including Yiddish and Polish that the author learnt specifically for this book. Making use of a highly innovative methodology that draws on sociological, criminal and legal approaches, each of the seven chapters is equivalent in intellectual content to a journal article.
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- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
- This book considers notions of justice and morality within the ghettos of occupied Eastern Europe during World War Two. The Germans forced Jewish Councils to impose German orders within these ghettos. Drawing on examples from the Warsaw, Lodz and Vilna ghettos, the book examines how and why the Jewish Councils labelled - in addition to offenses based on explicit German orders - numerous acts within the ghetto communities as 'criminal' and set up internal legal institutions to punish such offenses, and how 'ordinary' ghetto inhabitants reacted to these new concepts and made use of the institutions in their own interests.