Feathers

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}feathers Haim Be’er } feathers Translated from the Hebrew by hillel halkin brandeis university press Waltham, Massachusetts Published by University Press of New England Hanover and London brandeis university press Published by University Press of New England One Court Street, Lebanon, NH 03766 www.upne.com© 2004 by Haim Be’er First Brandeis University Press/UPNE paperback edition 2006 Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Members of educational institutions and organizations wishing to photocopy any of the work for classroom use, or authors and publishers who would like to obtain permission for any of the material in the work, should contact Permissions, University Press of New England, One Court Street, Lebanon, NH 03766. Published by arrangement with the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Originally published in Hebrew as Notsot by Am Oved Publishers Ltd., Tel Aviv, 1980 Published with the support of the Jacob and Libby Goodman Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel, and with support from the National Endowment for the Arts isbns for the paperback edition: isbn–13: 978–1–58465–535–0 isbn–10: 1–58465–535–6 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Be’er, Haim. [Notsot. English] Feathers / Haim Be’er ; translated from the Hebrew and with a foreword by Hillel Halkin. p. cm.—(The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series) isbn 1–58465–371–X I. Halkin, Hillel, 1939– II. Title. III. Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered) pj5054.b374n613 2004 892.4′36—dc22 2003026808 the tauber institute for the study of european jewry series jehuda reinharz, General Editor sylvia fuks fried, Associate Editor The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, established by a gift to Brandeis University from Dr. Laszlo N. Tauber, is dedicated to the memory of the victims of Nazi persecutions between 1933 and 1945. The Institute seeks to study the history and culture of European Jewry in the modern period. The Institute has a special interest in studying the causes, nature, and consequences of the European Jewish catastrophe within the contexts of modern European diplomatic, intellectual, political, and social history. The Jacob and Libby Goodman Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel was founded through a gift to Brandeis University by Mrs. Libby Goodman and is organized under the auspices of the Tauber Institute. The Goodman Institute seeks to promote an understanding of the historical and ideological development of the Zionist movement, and the history, society , and culture of the State of Israel. Gerhard L. Weinberg, 1981 World in the Balance: Behind the Scenes of World War II Richard Cobb, 1983 French and Germans, Germans and French: A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914–1918/1940–1944 Eberhard Jäckel, 1984 Hitler in History Frances Malino and Bernard Wasserstein, editors, 1985 The Jews in Modern France Jehuda Reinharz and Walter Schatzberg, editors, 1985 The Jewish Response to German Culture: From the Enlightenment to the Second World War Jacob Katz, 1986 The Darker Side of Genius: Richard Wagner’s Anti-Semitism Jehuda Reinharz, editor, 1987 Living with Antisemitism: Modern Jewish Responses Michael R. Marrus, 1987 The Holocaust in History Paul Mendes-Flohr, editor, 1987 The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Joan G. Roland, 1989 Jews in British India: Identity in a Colonial Era Yisrael Gutman, Ezra Mendelsohn, Jehuda Reinharz, and Chone Shmeruk, editors, 1989 The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars Avraham Barkai, 1989 From Boycott to Annihilation: The Economic Struggle of German Jews, 1933–1943 Alexander Altmann, 1991 The Meaning of Jewish Existence: Theological Essays 1930–1939 Magdalena Opalski and Israel Bartal, 1992 Poles and Jews: A Failed Brotherhood Richard Breitman, 1992 The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution George L. Mosse, 1993 Confronting the Nation: Jewish and Western Nationalism Daniel Carpi, 1994 Between Mussolini and Hitler: The Jews and the Italian Authorities in France and Tunisia Walter Laqueur and Richard Breitman, 1994 Breaking the Silence: The German Who Exposed the Final Solution Ismar Schorsch, 1994 From Text to Context: The Turn to History in...