Problems of Western European Jews in the 20th century: a comparative study of Danzig and Paris

Compares responses of the leadership of the Jewish communities in Danzig and Paris to the antisemitism of the 1920s-30s. The greater integration of East European Jews in Danzig helped to maintain unity; Parisian Jewry remained divided until 1943, when the Jewish leadership abandoned its faith in the French liberal tradition as a defender of the Jews. The Danzig leadership, however, recognized early on that their German liberal orientation was a weak protection, and was able to fight antisemitism when possible and to save most of the community by collective emigration in 1938.