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The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook Advance Access originally published online on September 8, 2009
The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 2009 54(1):333-355; doi:10.1093/lbaeck/ybp008
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© The Author (2009). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Leo Baeck Institute. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

"You have the right to be hopeful if you do your duty"—Ten Letters by Leo Baeck to Friedrich Brodnitz, 1937–1941

Introduced and Annotated By Jürgen Matthäus1

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For all that has been written on the fate of German Jews during the Nazi era, a wider audience has only recently developed an interest in Jewish actions and reactions as documented by those who experienced the Third Reich's persecution policy. Already in the 1970s, pioneers of German-Jewish social history-writing started publishing testimonies by Jews before and during the Holocaust; at the same time, the number of printed memoirs grew. More was to follow towards the end of the century. Triggered by the massive international success of Victor Klemperer's stupendous (though, with regard to focus, hardly Jewish) notes and reflections, the wave of new memoirs, diaries and letter collections, sustained by a groundswell of local and regional histories, shows no sign of ebbing. Among these publications, we find astonishingly few accounts by those who after 1933 had been in positions of authority that allowed them to look beyond what average . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   LEO BAECK TO FRIEDRICH BRODNITZ29
 

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