Born Jewish (Paperback)

Marcel Liebman

ISBN 10: 1788736443 / ISBN 13: 9781788736442

Published by Verso Books, London, 2020

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Paperback. This fierce memoir is both an elegy and an indictment. Marcel Liebmans account of his childhood in Brussels under the Nazi occupation explores the emergence of his class consciousness against a background of resistance and collaboration. He documents the internal class war that has long been hidden from history: how the Nazi persecution exploited class distinctions within the Jewish community, and how certain Jewish notables collaborated in a systematic programme of denunciation and deportation against immigrant Jews who lacked the privileges of wealth and citizenship. Eminent Marxist intellectual reveals class struggles in Nazi-torn Belgium Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Born Jewish (Paperback)
• Publisher: Verso Books, London
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788736443
• ISBN 13: 9781788736442
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Eminent Marxist intellectual recounts class struggles in Nazi-torn Belgium

Marcel Liebman was one of post-war Europe’s preeminent Marxist intellectuals. This, his memoir of Nazi-occupied Belgium, is both an elegy and an indictment. Liebman’s account of his childhood in Brussels under the Nazi occupation explores the emergence of his class-consciousness against a background of resistance and collaboration. He documents the internal class war that has long been hidden from history: how the Nazi persecution exploited class distinctions within the Jewish community, and how certain Jewish notables collaborated in a systematic programme of denunciation and deportation against immigrant Jews who lacked the privileges of wealth and citizenship.

Born Jewish is a fierce, powerful and subtle account of the Liebman family’s struggle to survive persecution and terror, a story rich with insight, humour and lyricism.

About the Author

Marcel Liebman (1929–1986), a Belgian historian, is the author of Leninism Under Lenin and The Russian Revolution.

Jacqueline Rose is Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London. Her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision, The Question of Zion, and the novel Albertine.