Holocaust category: 1392 books
The Holocaust's Jewish Calendars
Keeping Time Sacred, Making Time Holy
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Calendars map time, shaping and delineating our experience of it. While the challenges to tracking Jewish conceptions of time during the Holocaust were substantial, Alan Rosen reveals that many took great risks to mark time within that vast upheaval. Rosen inventories and organizes Jewish calendars...
The Genocidal Gaze
From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904–1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated thousands of Herero and Nama people and subjected the surviving indigenous men, women, and children to forced labor. The...
The Holocaust
Europe, the World, and the Jews, 1918 - 1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The Holocaust: Europe, the World, and the Jews is a readable text for undergraduate students containing sufficient but manageable detail. The author provides a broad set of perspectives, while emphasizing the Holocaust as a catastrophe emerging from an international Jewish question. This text conveys...
by Paul R. Bartrop, Samantha J. Lakin
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
This book tells the largely unknown story behind the rescue activities of several remarkable young Jewish women in Vichy France during World War II and their role in the resistance against Nazi and Vichy France deportation policies.
• Grounds a captivating narrative in extensive field research...
A World Erased
A Grandson's Search for His Family's Holocaust Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
This poignant memoir by Noah Lederman, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, transports readers from his grandparents’ kitchen table in Brooklyn to World War II Poland. In the 1950s, Noah’s grandparents raised their children on Holocaust stories. But because tales of rebellion and death camps gave...
Representing Genocide
The Holocaust as Paradigm?
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
This book explores the diverse ways in which Holocaust representations have influenced and structured how other genocides are understood and represented in the West. Rebecca Jinks focuses in particular on the canonical 20th century cases of genocide: Armenia, Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda. Using literature,...
Holocaust and Catholic Conscience, The
Cardinal Aloisius Muench and the Guilt Question in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 1994
American-born Cardinal Aloisius Muench (1889-1962) was a key figure in German and German-American Catholic responses to the Holocaust, Jews, and Judaism between 1946 and 1959. He was arguably the most powerful American Catholic figure and an influential Vatican representative in occupied Germany and...
by Brett Ashley Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
How do the spaces of the past stay with us through representations—whether literary or photographic? How has the Holocaust registered in our increasingly globally connected consciousness? What does it mean that this European event is often used as an interpretive or representational touchstone for...
Britain, Germany and the Road to the Holocaust
British Attitudes towards Nazi Atrocities
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
In the 1930s, the British public's emotional response to the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, including the bombing of Guernica, shaped the mass-politics of the age. Similarly, alleged German atrocities in World War I against the Belgians and the French had led to campaigns in Britain for donations...
Film and the Holocaust
New Perspectives on Dramas, Documentaries, and Experimental Films
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
When representing the Holocaust, the slightest hint of narrative embellishment strikes contemporary audiences as somehow a violation against those who suffered under the Nazis. This anxiety is, at least in part, rooted in Theodor Adorno's dictum that "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric."...
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Holocaust
An Endangered Connection
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Johannes Morsink argues that the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the human rights movement today are direct descendants of revulsion to the Holocaust and the desire to never let it happen again.
Much recent scholarship about human rights has severed this link between the Holocaust,...
Ecologies of Witnessing
Language, Place, and Holocaust Testimony
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
An innovative reassessment of Holocaust testimony, revealing the dramatic ways in which the languages and places of postwar life inform survivor memory
This groundbreaking work rethinks conventional wisdom about Holocaust testimony, focusing on the power of language and place to shape personal...
Marking Evil
Holocaust Memory in the Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Talking about the Holocaust has provided an international language for ethics, victimization, political claims, and constructions of collective identity. As part of a worldwide vocabulary, that language helps set the tenor of the era of globalization. This volume addresses manifestations of Holocaust-engendered...
Die Araber und der Holocaust
Der arabisch-israelische Krieg der Geschichtsschreibungen
Language: German
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Es gibt kaum ein explosiveres Thema als "Die Araber und der Holocaust" - das Terrain ist vermint, voller Vorwürfe und Gegenvorwürfe: Die einen werden beschuldigt, den Holocaust zu verleugnen; den anderen wird vorgeworfen, die eigene Tragödie auszubeuten und die der Gegenseite zu ignorieren....