Bitter Reckoning

Bitter Reckoning
Title Bitter Reckoning PDF eBook
Author Dan Porat
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 289
Release 2019-10-15
Genre History
ISBN 0674243137

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Beginning in 1950, the state of Israel prosecuted and jailed dozens of Holocaust survivors who had served as camp kapos or ghetto police under the Nazis. At last comes the first full account of the kapo trials, based on records newly declassified after forty years. In December 1945, a Polish-born commuter on a Tel Aviv bus recognized a fellow rider as the former head of a town council the Nazis had established to manage the Jews. When he denounced the man as a collaborator, the rider leapt off the bus, pursued by passengers intent on beating him to death. Five years later, to address ongoing tensions within Holocaust survivor communities, the State of Israel instituted the criminal prosecution of Jews who had served as ghetto administrators or kapos in concentration camps. Dan Porat brings to light more than three dozen little-known trials, held over the following two decades, of survivors charged with Nazi collaboration. Scouring police investigation files and trial records, he found accounts of Jewish policemen and camp functionaries who harassed, beat, robbed, and even murdered their brethren. But as the trials exposed the tragic experiences of the kapos, over time the courts and the public shifted from seeing them as evil collaborators to victims themselves, and the fervor to prosecute them abated. Porat shows how these trials changed Israel’s understanding of the Holocaust and explores how the suppression of the trial records—long classified by the state—affected history and memory. Sensitive to the devastating options confronting those who chose to collaborate, yet rigorous in its analysis, Bitter Reckoning invites us to rethink our ideas of complicity and justice and to consider what it means to be a victim in extraordinary circumstances.

A bitter reckoning; or, Violet Arleigh

A bitter reckoning; or, Violet Arleigh
Title A bitter reckoning; or, Violet Arleigh PDF eBook
Author E. Burke Mrs. Collins
Publisher Good Press
Pages 189
Release 2023-07-11
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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"A bitter reckoning; or, Violet Arleigh" by E. Burke Mrs. Collins. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Winter's Bone

Winter's Bone
Title Winter's Bone PDF eBook
Author Daniel Woodrell
Publisher Back Bay Books
Pages 143
Release 2007-07-11
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0316007382

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Daniel Woodrell's modern classic is an unforgettable tale of desperation and courage that inspired the award-winning film starring Jennifer Lawrence. Ree Dolly's father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. With two young brothers depending on her, 16-year-old Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive. Living in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks, Ree learns quickly that asking questions of the rough Dolly clan can be a fatal mistake. But, as an unsettling revelation lurks, Ree discovers unforeseen depths in herself and in a family network that protects its own at any cost. "The lineage from Faulkner to Woodrell runs as deep and true as an Ozark stream in this book...his most profound and haunting yet." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review

History of English Drama 1660-1900

History of English Drama 1660-1900
Title History of English Drama 1660-1900 PDF eBook
Author Nicoll
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 586
Release 2009-08-16
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780521109338

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Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.

The United States Catalog

The United States Catalog
Title The United States Catalog PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 376
Release 1900
Genre American literature
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The United States Catalog

The United States Catalog
Title The United States Catalog PDF eBook
Author George Flavel Danforth
Publisher
Pages 1208
Release 1900
Genre American literature
ISBN

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Expositions on the Book of Psalms: Psalms 53-75

Expositions on the Book of Psalms: Psalms 53-75
Title Expositions on the Book of Psalms: Psalms 53-75 PDF eBook
Author Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher
Pages 554
Release 1849
Genre Bible
ISBN

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