The crime: Collaborating with the Nazis. The punishment: Excommunication from Judaism - Israel News (original) (raw)

Was a Judenrat member a traitor to his people? A new study addresses a little-discussed chapter in Holocaust history, and recalls how Israel's early judicial system dealt with Jews who collaborated with Nazis

Aug 24, 2019

Aug 24, 2019

A few years ago, Rivka Brot was waiting for a bus in Tel Aviv when her attention was drawn to the words “Maccabi Judenrat” scrawled in large letters on a fence nearby. Later someone explained to Brot, a lecturer at the law faculty of Tel Aviv University, that the graffiti was part of the arsenal of fans of Hapoel Tel Aviv, the archrivals of the Maccabi soccer team. “What’s the connection between soccer rivalries and the Jewish Councils of the Holocaust?” the legal historian wondered.

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