The Fragility of Goodness; Why Bulgaria's Jews Survived the Holocaust
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Advance, Uncorrected Reading copy. Trade paperback. [6], 190 pages. Footnotes. Sequence of Events. Documents: Exclusion. Documents: Deportation. Documents: Internment. Memoirs. Translator's Note. Bibliographic Note. Ink word on spine. Tzvetan Todorov (1 March 1939 – 7 February 2017) was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist. He was the author of many books and essays, which have had a significant influence in anthropology, sociology, semiotics, literary theory, intellectual history and culture theory. Todorov's historical interests have focused on such crucial issues as the conquest of The Americas and the German Nazi concentration camps. Aside from his work in literary theory, Todorov has also published studies of philosophy. He wrote Frail Happiness about the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He focuses on Rousseau's ideas of attaining human happiness and how we can live in 'modern' times. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: At the outbreak of WWII, Bulgaria, an ally of Germany, issued anti-Semitic legislation that allowed for the deportation of 11,343 Jews from the provinces of Thrace and Macedonia; all but 12 of them died in concentration camps. This action was met with such outrage on the part of Jews and non-Jews, including many political insiders and the Orthodox Church, that the legislation was rescinded and no other Bulgarian Jews were sent to certain death. Although the government appeased Germany by claiming that this measure was merely temporary, shortly thereafter, Bulgaria fell to the Soviet Union, and its remaining Jews, nearly 50,000 strong, were spared. A French intellectual with Bulgarian roots, Tzvetan Todorov explores the tenuous combination of circumstances that saved Bulgaria's Jews. Condition: Good / No dust jacket issued.
Keywords: Dimo Kazasov, Metropolitan Stefan, Asen Suichmezov, Dimitur Peshev, Jews, Holocaust, Exclusion, Deportation, Internment, Bulgaria
ISBN: 0297646702
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