Holocaust category: 1392 books
Holocaust Memories
A Survey of Holocaust Memoirs, Histories, Novels, and Films
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Nearly eighty years have passed since the Holocaust. There have been hundreds of memoirs, histories and novels written about it, yet many fear that this important event may fall into oblivion. As Holocaust survivors pass away, their legacy of suffering, tenacity and courage could be forgotten. It...
The United States and the Nazi Holocaust
Race, Refuge, and Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
The United States and the Nazi Holocaust is an invaluable synthesis of United States policies and attitudes towards the Nazi persecution of European Jewry from 1933 to the modern day. The book weaves together a vast body of scholarship to bring students of the Holocaust a balanced overview of this...
Facing Death
Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
What do we learn about death from the Holocaust and how does it impact our responses to mortality today?
Facing Death: Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves brings together the work of eleven Holocaust and genocide scholars who address these difficult questions, convinced of...
Holocaust Representations in History
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Holocaust Representations in History is an introduction to critical questions and debates surrounding the depiction, chronicling and memorialization of the Holocaust through the historical analysis of some of the most provocative and significant works of Holocaust representation.
In a series...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Holocaust History and the Readings of Ka-Tzetnik provides the first extensive exploration of the reception of Ka-Tzetnik's work and the role that his books have played in the larger discussion of the Holocaust and its memorialization around the world.
Including contributions from an international...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature is a comprehensive reference resource including a wealth of critical material on a diverse range of topics within the literary study of Holocaust writing. At its centre is a series of specially commissioned essays by leading scholars within the field:...
by Paul R. Bartrop
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2019
The Holocaust: The Basics is a concise introduction to the study of this seismic event in mid twentieth-century human history.
The book takes an original approach as both a narrative and thematic introduction to the topic, and provides a core foundation for readers embarking upon their own...
The Archaeology of the Holocaust
Vilna, Rhodes, and Escape Tunnels
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
In the summer of 2016 acclaimed archaeologist Richard Freund and his team made news worldwide when they discovered an escape tunnel from the Ponar burial pits in Lithunia. This Holocaust site where more than 100,000 people perished is usually remembered for the terrible devastation that happened there....
by Jack R. Fischel
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2010
The Holocaust was perpetrated by the Nazis as a means of eliminating the Jews from the planet. It was an unprecedented event in history, inasmuch as a nation state had never before targeted an entire people for extinction. Yet, more than half a century later, there is a tendency to forget, if not...
Sister in Sorrow
Life Histories of Female Holocaust Survivors from Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
Sister in Sorrow offers a glimpse into the world of Hungarian Holocaust survivors through the stories of fifteen survivors, as told by thirteen women and two spouses presently living in Hungary and Israel. Analyzing the accounts as oral narratives, author Ilana Rosen uses contemporary folklore studies...
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
Language, Rhetoric and the Traditions of Hatred
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust surveys the history of the Holocaust whilst demonstrating the pivotal importance of the historical tradition of anti-Semitism and the power of discriminatory language in relation to the Nazi-led persecution of the Jews.
The book examines varieties of anti-Semitism...
The Holocaust
History & Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2016
“A compact and cogent academic account of the Holocaust.” —Kirkus Reviews
Brilliant and wrenching, The Holocaust: History and Memory tells the story of the brutal mass slaughter of Jews during World War II and how that genocide has been remembered and misremembered ever since. Taking issue...
Witnessing Unbound
Holocaust Representation and the Origins of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Primary witnessing, in its original forms—from survivor and bystander testimonies, to memoirs and diaries—inform our cultural understanding of the multiple experiences of the Holocaust. Henri Lustiger Thaler and Habbo Knoch look at many of these expressions of primary witnessing in Witnessing Unbound:...
by Robert C. Reimer, Carol J. Reimer
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Some say that telling the story of the Holocaust is impossible, yet, artists have told the story thousands of time since the end of World War II in novels, dramas, paintings, music, sculpture, and film. Over the past seven decades, hundreds of documentaries, narrative shorts and features, and television...