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"The
Transfer Agreement and the Boycott Movement: A Jewish Dilemma on the
Eve of the Holocaust"
The article
discusses the conflict between the Transfer Agreement and the
anti-Nazi boycott movement in the 1930s, in the context of the
differing viewpoints and needs of German and Polish Jews, and of the
Diaspora and the Yishuv. The Labor-Revisionist Zionist conflict was
also expressed in differences over these policies. The two policies
were the products of different perspectives on Nazism, antisemitism,
and Jewish life in the Diaspora. Each policy seemed to have
potentially far-reaching implications for every group. Advocates of
the Transfer Agreement saw this policy as a way to keep a channel of
communication with German Jewry open and to deliver German Jews to
safety, whereas boycott advocates were at once self-sacrificing and
heroic yet naive regarding their potential impact on Nazi Germany. |
