Africans and the Holocaust: Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Africa)

Synopsis

This book is an original and comparative study of reactions in West and East Africa to the persecution and attempted annihilation of Jews in Europe and in former German colonies in sub-Saharan Africa during the Second World War.An intellectual and diplomatic history of World War II and the Holocaust, Africans and the Holocaust looks at the period from the perspectives of the colonized subjects of the Gold Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Tanganyika, and Uganda, as well as the sovereign peoples of Liberia and Ethiopia, who wrestled with the social and moral questions that the war and the Holocaust raised. The five main chapters of the book explore the pre-Holocaust history of relations between Jews and Africans in West and East Africa, perceptions of Nazism in both regions, opinions of World War II, interpretations of the Holocaust, and responses of the colonized and sovereign peoples of West and East Africa to efforts by Great Britain to resettle certain categories of Jewish refugees from Europe in the two regions before and during the Holocaust.This book will be of use to students and scholars of African history, Holocaust and Jewish studies, and international or global history.

Copyright:

2020

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

194 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780429515033

Related ISBNs:

9780367777494, 9780429203015, 9780367195373

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

07/03/21

Copyrighted By:

Edward Kissi, The right of Edward Kissi to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Military, Nonfiction

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