Protectors of Pluralism: Religious Minorities and the Rescue of Jews in the Low Countries During the Holocaust

by Robert Braun

Book Overview

Protectors of Pluralism argues that local religious minorities are more likely to save persecuted groups from purification campaigns. Robert Braun utilizes a geo-referenced dataset of Jewish evasion in the Netherlands and Belgium during the Holocaust to assess the minority hypothesis. Spatial statistics and archival work reveal that Protestants were more likely to rescue Jews in Catholic regions of the Low Countries, while Catholics facilitated evasion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108471021
• ISBN13: 9781108471022
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.8" x 9.3"