Holocaust category: 1392 books
Remembering the Holocaust
A Debate
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Remembering the Holocaust explains why the Holocaust has come to be considered the central event of the 20th century, and what this means. Presenting Jeffrey Alexander's controversial essay that, in the words of Geoffrey Hartman, has already become a classic in the Holocaust literature, and following...
by Valerie Foster
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
What can the few remaining survivors of the Holocaust teach us before they are gone? What is it that hasn’t yet been said? A high school teacher is given the opportunity to find out when one such survivor chooses her to preserve her final testament. In The Risk of Sorrow, Valerie Foster, an Irish-Catholic...
The Holocaust Across Generations
Trauma and its Inheritance Among Descendants of Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award for the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section presented by the American Sociological Association
Brings together the study of post-Holocaust family culture with the study of collective memory
Over the last two decades, the cross-generational...
The Holocaust in Eastern Europe
At the Epicenter of the Final Solution
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Waitman Wade Beorn's The Holocaust in Eastern Europe provides a comprehensive history of the Holocaust in the region that was the central location of the event itself while including material often overlooked in general Holocaust history texts.
First introducing Jewish life as it was lived...
by Donald Niewyk, Francis Nicosia
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2003
Offering a multidimensional approach to one of the most important episodes of the twentieth century, The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust offers readers and researchers a general history of the Holocaust while delving into the core issues and debates in the study of the Holocaust today.
Each...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The Holocaust that occurred during World War II remains one of the deadliest genocides in human history, with an estimated two-thirds of the 9 million Jews in Europe at the time being killed as a result of the policies of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection...
Nazis after Hitler
How Perpetrators of the Holocaust Cheated Justice and Truth
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
This deeply researched and informative book traces the biographies of thirty "typical" perpetrators of the Holocaust—some well known, some obscure—who survived World War II. Donald M. McKale reveals the shocking reality that the perpetrators were only rarely, if ever, tried or punished...
Israeli Holocaust Research
Birth and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
An exploration of the development of Holocaust research in Israel, this book ranges from the consolidation of Holocaust research as an academic subject in the late 1940s to the establishment of Yad Vashem and beyond.
Research on the story of historiography is often a work on books, on the "final...
Holocaust Rescuers: True Holocaust Survivor Stories Of The Liberators Of Auschwitz: Accounts Of The Holocaust Rescuers
Holocaust Rescuers, #2
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
Every so often, an event happens that yanks the reigns of the ever-churning machinery of time and stops the world in its tracks. The repercussions of such an event may send shock waves that can be felt in every nook and corner of our sphere.
These events and happenings will vary in the actual...
The Holocaust Industry
Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2003
It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel’s evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it enjoys today. Leaders of America’s Jewish community were delighted that Israel was now deemed a...
While America Watches
Televising the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2000
The Holocaust holds a unique place in American public culture, and, as Jeffrey Shandler argues in While America Watches, it is television, more than any other medium, that has brought the Holocaust into our homes, our hearts, and our minds. Much has been written about Holocaust film and literature,...
Holocaust Survivor Accounts: Incredible True Holocaust Survivor Stories From World War 2: Accounts Of Holocaust History
Holocaust Survivor Accounts, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
If there is one thing that can be said about humanity, it is that we are true survivors. From wars to natural disasters, man has managed to bring himself back from the brink of destruction.
We have thrived over the millennia we have inhabited this earth; from the caveman to the modern civilization...
The Holocaust, Religion, and the Politics of Collective Memory
Beyond Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The program of extermination Nazis called the Final Solution took the lives of approximately six million Jews, amounting to roughly 60 percent of European Jewry and a third of the world's Jewish population. Studying the Holocaust from a sociological perspective, Ronald J. Berger explains why the Final...
Holocaust Icons
Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The Holocaust has bequeathed to contemporary society a cultural lexicon of intensely powerful symbols, a vocabulary of remembrance that we draw on to comprehend the otherwise incomprehensible horror of the Shoah. Engagingly written and illustrated with more than forty black-and-white images, Holocaust...