Nazi Antisemitism and Jewish Legal Self-Defense: The Turn to Law in Liberal Democracies, 193239 [Paperback]

1. Jews, Nazis, and the Turn to Law 2. The Antisemitic International: The Protocols and Jewish-Legal Self-defense 3. Europe: Jewish legal Self-defense as an International Phenomenon 4. The Greyshirts Trial: Jews, Nazis, and Legal Self-defense in South Africa 5. After the Greyshirts Trial: Jewish Self-defense in South Africa following the Victory of Rabbi Levy 6. Jews, Nazis, and the Qu?bec Experience: The Failures of Law 7. Canadian Nazis and Jewish Legal Self-defense in Manitoba: Tobias v. Whittaker 8. The Freiman-Tissot Affair; Nazis Antisemites, Jews, and the Canadian Criminal Code 9. Nazi Antisemitism, Jewish legal Self-defense, and Criminal Libel in Ottawa 10. Nazi Antisemites, Libel Suits, and Jewish Legal Self-defense in the United States 11. The Edmondson Case and the Trial That Wasnt: American Antisemitism, American Law, American Jews 12. English Jewish Self-defense: Elites, Masses, and Law 13. The Leese Case: Libel Laws, Nazi Antisemites, and Jewish Self-defense in England 14. Conclusion: Beyond Jewish Legal Self-defense?

This book examines the ways in which Jewish individuals and organized communal bodies in the 1930s sought to counter this increasing antisemitic violence, physical and verbal, by using the law against their fascist and Nazi attackers.

One of the first to provide a socio-legal comparative history of under-studied or ignored Jewish attempts in the 1930s Anglosphere to counter the rise in fascist and Nazi antisemitism, this book examines the ways in which Jewish individuals and organized communal bodies in the mid-to-late 1930s sought to counter this increasing antisemitic violence, physical and verbal, by using the law against their fascist and Nazi attackers.

This is the first study to explore how Jews in these countries organized themselves, brought their oppressors to court, while seeking to convince their governments that an attack on Jews was a threat to the solC1