1st Edition
On the Margins Essays on the History of Jews in Estonia
By Anton Weiss-Wendt
Copyright 2017
332 Pages
by
Central European University Press
Estonia is perhaps the only country in Europe that lacks a comprehensive history of its Jewish minority. Spanning over 150 years of Estonian Jewish history, On the Margins is a truly unique book. Rebuilding a life beyond so-called Pale of Jewish Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Jewish cultural autonomy in interwar Estonia, and the trauma of Soviet occupation of 1940–41 are among the issues... Read more
List of Tables, Acknowledgments, Preface, Studying Estonian Jewish History: A Professional and Personal Journey, 1. New in Town: Jews in Narva, 1874-1917, 2. Thanks to the Germans! Jewish Cultural Autonomy in Interwar Estonia, 3. The Soviet Occupation of Estonia in 1940-41 and the Jews, 4. Accidentally Jewish: Helmut Weiss and the Il(logic) of Political Violence in Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia, 5. Ordinary People Facing the Holocaust: As Reflected in the Estonian Security Police Investigation Files, 1941-42, 6. The End Complete: The Destruction of Jews in Provincial Cities, 7. The Business of Survival: Baltic Oil Ltd. and Jewish Forced Labor Camps in Estonia, 8. Estonian Perpetrators of the Holocaust in the Annals of the Cold War: Prosecution of War Criminals in the Soviet Union, 1943-1987, 9. Why the Holocaust Does Not Matter to Estonians, Appendix: Primary Sources for Estonian Jewish History until 1941, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Anton Weiss-Wendt is Head of Research at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo, Norway.
