The Holocaust Books
Temple Lodge Publishing Alfred Bergel: Sketches of a Forgotten Life -
Book SynopsisIn a remarkable deed of original scholarly research and detailed detective work, Anne Weise recreates sketches of a lost life - of one of the millions of forgotten souls whose lives came to a violent end in the Holocaust. Her focus is Alfred Bergel (1902-1944), an artist and teacher from Vienna who was a close associate of Karl Koenig - the founder of the Camphill Movement for people with special needs - who wrote of Bergel in his youthful diaries as his best friend 'Fredi'. After the annexation of Austria, Alfred Bergel found himself unable to escape the horror of the National Socialist regime. Subsequently, in 1942 he was deported to the Theresienstadt camp. Imprisoned there, he produced numerous artistic works of the inmates of the ghetto and taught drawing, art history and art appreciation - sometimes in collaboration with the Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis. During this period, he was also forced by the Nazis to produce forgeries of classic art works. One of the central figures of cultural life in the Theresienstadt ghetto, Bergel was eventually transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 where, tragically, he was murdered. His name and his work are largely forgotten today, even amongst Holocaust researchers, but Weise succeeds in honouring the life of the Jewish artist by lovingly piecing together his biography, based on numerous personal testimonies by friends and contemporaries and supplemented with documents and many dozens of photos and colour reproductions of Bergel's artistic works. This invaluable recreation of a life provides insight not only into the desperate plight of a single individual, but also illustrates the human will and determination to survive in the context of one of the darkest periods of recent history.Table of ContentsThe Holocaust: Looking Back Seventy Years by Robert O. Fisch - Looking for the Human Being-A Preface - Short Biography of Alfred Bergel - 1. Young Friends-A Diary Collage - Childhood and Youth in Olmu tz and Vienna - Summer Respite for Bergels and Koenigs-Friendship between the Families - 'And we became friends'-Fredi and Karl - 'Moonlight Party'-A Summer in Kierling - 'He won't let on about it'-First love - 'Too good to be true'-Wistful Farewell and War Chaos - Kierling, and once again Kierling - 'Wurstelprater'-Theatrical Experiences - 'Become like this man, so happy and great'-A Fairy Tale for the Friend - Poet and mentor-the father Arnold Bergel - 'I saw the creative works of the greatest painters'-Encounters with the visual arts - Another Class Photo-a Talent for Portraits - 'The Different, the Good, and the Beautiful'-Quarrels - 'Man of Skills'-the Artist - 'We are just too connected with each other through Karma' - Rise of Anti-Semitism in Vienna - 2. The Anschluss. Annexation-Repression and Defamation in Vienna - The Destiny of the Childhood-Friends - Banned from Employment, March 1938 - Exit Visa and Capital Confiscation, May 1938 - Marked as Israel and Sara, August 1938 - Evictions, September 1938 - Kristallnacht, November 1938 - Escape of Sister Marianne to Palestine, June 1939 - Teacher in the Youth-Aliyah, October 1939-1942 - 3. Theresienstadt and Auschwitz - Bohemia-'The heart of Europe' - 'My number swung as if on a cow's neck'-Deportation - 'The idea of man'-cultural life for survival, nourishment and spiritual resistance - 'Subtleties like colour, harmony, balance, form and beauty'-Alfred Bergel as a teacher - 'Here is no photographer, then an artist is needed'-Alfred Bergel, the painter - Alfred Bergel-Member of the Sonderwerkstatt - 'Ordering' art - Eyewitness accounts from the painters' workshops - More research needs to be done - Beautification of Theresienstadt - From Vienna: a message of 'an outstanding loan debt' - 'An oasis to breathe'-Hugo Friedmann and the library - A slight movement with the thumb-Deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau - 4. Human dignity is inviolable - 'To serve and not to rule'-The destiny of Karl Koenig and the European cultural impulse - 'Love overcomes hatred'-Pay Attention to the Helpers - 5. Anthroposophical work in Theresienstadt - 6. Destinies of family members - Sophie Bergel / Arthur and Sali Bergel / Marianne and Hans Petersilka / Margarethe and Richard Winter / Fritz Bergel / Elsa, Oskar and Herta Baurose - Members of the Bergel family murdered in Auschwitz/Birkenau - The fate of Karl Koenig's extended family during the Holocaust - 7. A voice from then ... and today-Fred Terna - Notes - Further reading - List of artworks - Picture credits - Index of names
£23.75
Rowman & Littlefield Bonhoeffer’s New Beginning: Ethics after
Book SynopsisBonhoeffer’s New Beginning investigates the ethics of making new beginnings after devastating moral rupture. The work argues that new beginnings must be made in order to sustain the fundamental convictions that it is good to exist and that life in the world with others should be loved without exclusion. Bonhoeffer’s ethics of new beginning is set in conversation with the thought of four moral philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt, Jonathan Glover, and Jonathan Lear. DeCort argues that Bonhoeffer’s ethics of new beginning opens and energizes a more promising, world-affirming moral vision with radical hope for new beginnings vis-à-vis the perceived absence of God in the face of devastation. Trade ReviewIn mid-century Europe, totalitarians on both the left and the right sought to remake humanity, society, politics, morality, geography, and population. The scope of their hubris was astonishing, as was the body count they left behind. To accomplish their idolatrous, disastrous goals, everything was permissible. In his important new book, Andrew DeCort demonstrates that Dietrich Bonhoeffer responded theologically in Nazi Germany to this mania for remaking the world through projects of political salvation at the point of a gun. DeCort shows that Bonhoeffer's biblical theology of creation, Christ, and resurrection precluded any human project to serve as our own creators and saviors by engineering a new beginning in human life. Instead, Christians at least, know (or should know) that we are called to respond to God's creative and reconciling action, and that we must do so in love of God and others. This is a groundbreaking work, ranging exhaustively over the Bonhoeffer corpus and the secondary literature. It reveals a new dimension of Bonhoeffer's thought, and demonstrates once again that Bonhoeffer was always responding to the dangerous political and moral ideas around him with a disciplined theological and ethical response -- a response that took him to his death. Highly recommended! -- David P. Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics, Mercer UniversityHere we have a fresh – indeed groundbreaking – reading of Bonhoeffer’s entire corpus. As he reconstructs Bonhoeffer’s theological ethics of new beginnings, DeCort shows how Bonhoeffer’s final words, “This is for me the end, but also the beginning,” encapsulates a consistent, central theme unifying his life and work: the nature and practice of new beginnings during and after social, political, and moral devastation. This book is rigorously researched, theologically and philosophically astute, and spiritually and practically relevant. In short, it is learned and wise. -- Jennifer M. McBride, McCormick Theological SeminaryBonhoeffer’s New Beginning addresses one of the deepest challenges of Christian life: how to keep and live our faith in a world of deep suffering and moral trauma, a world that for many people has shattered the notion that faith in God is even possible. After exploring this question through the work of four major philosophers, Andrew DeCort unpacks how Bonhoeffer’s ethical writings offer such a “new beginning,” opening the way for “a radically inclusive, universal vision of moral consciousness." DeCort makes a convincing case that this search for such new beginnings is an undercurrent throughout Bonhoeffer’s work. This is a very fine book: a creative, eloquent, and often moving study of Bonhoeffer’s theology and its continuing relevance. -- Victoria J. Barnett, General Editor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English EditionAndrew DeCort’s Bonhoeffer’s New Beginning takes on the profound and utterly inescapable problem of the “new beginning,” the "beginning again," in the wake of devastation and catastrophe, and suggests that, and then shows how, Bonhoeffer engages in Christian theology in light of this problem. This book is a terrific vision, in my mind especially illuminating on some of the Christocentric elements in Bonhoeffer’s work, and drawing on work in philosophy and political theory as well as Christian theology; it casts new light on our predicaments and the ways that Bonhoeffer may help us identify, understand, and confront them. -- Charles T. Mathewes, University of VirginiaDeCort’s treatment of Bonhoeffer is creative. This study of Bonhoeffer, which includes analysis of other major figures like Friedrich Nietzsche and Hannah Arendt, takes an innovative turn to look at the concept of an ethics of beginning again. -- Reggie L. Williams, McCormick Theological SeminaryTable of ContentsBeginning Introduction – Our Over-All Take on Human Life: The Problem of Morality and the Ethics of New Beginning Chapter 1 – The Trial: Universal Entry and The Problem of Morality Chapter 2 – Four Options: The Problem of Morality and the Ethics of New Beginning in Nietzsche, Arendt, Glover, and Lear Chapter 3 – “A Rift Irreparable Through Human Initiative”: Devastation and the Human (In)Capacity to Make a New Beginning in Bonhoeffer’s Thought Chapter 4 – “Only with God Is There A New Way, A New Beginning”: Justification and Guidance For New Beginning In Bonhoeffer’s Thought Chapter 5 – “The Dawning of The New World, The New Order”: Practices of New Beginning In Bonhoeffer’s Thought Conclusion – After the Beginning: The Problem of Morality, Divine Absence, and the Ethics of New Beginning after Devastation Beginning Anew Appendix – Bonhoeffer’s Last Words: A Personal Testament and Theological Summary?
£98.80
Editions Ampelos Le goût de la salade sucrée
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Walter de Gruyter Oradour Und Die Deutschen:
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Walter de Gruyter Zentralen Des Terrors: Die Dienststellen Der
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£50.96
de Gruyter Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State
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£16.65
V&r Academic Journalistische PRAXIS Beim Nurnberger Prozess
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£52.19
BÃhlau Verlag KÃln Dem Vergessen entrissen
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£30.59
Verlag Herder Deutsche Herrschaft: Nationalsozialistische
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£26.60
Brill Schoningh Die Deutsche Ordnungspolizei Im Westlichen Europa
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£76.58
Brill Schoningh Hitlers Politische Soldaten: Die Waffen-SS
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Brill Schoningh Die Ss, Himmler Und Die Wewelsburg
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£44.91
Brill Schoningh Erich Von Manstein: Vernichtungskrieg Und
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Brill Schoningh Honig Für Das Volk: Geschichte Der Imkerei in
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Brill Schoningh Die Rache Ist Mein Allein: Vergeltung Für Die
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Brill Schoningh Euthanasie Und Holocaust: Kontinuitäten,
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Brill U Schoningh Polizei Und Holocaust: Eine Generation Nach
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Brill U Schoningh Das Kz-Bordell: Sexuelle Zwangsarbeit in
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Brill U Schoningh Lodz: Geschichte Einer Multikulturellen
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Lit Verlag Teaching the Holocaust by Inquiry: Foreword by
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Brill Fink Bilder Trotz Allem
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£44.91
S. Hirzel Verlag Letzte Wege in Die Freiheit: Sechs
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£21.60
Tectum Blicke Auf Auschwitz:: Deutsch-Spanische
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V&R unipress GmbH Die SS nach 1945: Entschuldungsnarrative,
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£40.84
V&R Unipress Gegen Das Verstummen: Texthermeneutische
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£53.59
V&R unipress GmbH Postmodernizing the Holocaust: A Comparative
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£35.99
Marion Kummerow Trouble Brewing
£11.31
Steidl Publishers Through the Lens of Faith - Auschwitz
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£18.00
Hartmann Books Nebenan Auschwitz
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£25.20
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Eichmann en Jerusalén / Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
£22.87
Damiani Max Hirshfeld: Sweet Noise: Love in Wartime
Book SynopsisSweet Noise. Love in Wartime is a book of photographs and words about the Holocaust, a subject difficult to grasp and almost impossible to document. It is also a story of love in a time of war, told in a clear voice using compelling black-and-white photographs and simple, evocative language to build a framework around this pivotal moment in history. Hirshfeld's parents, Polish Jews who survived Auschwitz, raised him in a small city in Alabama, where life in the South of the 1950s and 1960s was quiet and, on the surface, mostly idyllic. But lurking under the surface was a remarkable yet tension-filled history that fully revealed itself only after he matured and had a family of his own. He knew the outer perimeters of his parent’s story: the challenges of being Jewish in a place that increasingly alienated them, their individual trajectories as they moved through adulthood and their chance meeting in a Nazi-created ghetto where they fell in love. But it took a trip to Poland with his mother in 1993 (and the discovery in 2005 of hundreds of post-war letters between his parents) to more fully acquaint me with the depths of their tragedies and the exceptional love story that began in 1943, sustaining them through the war. Though Sweet Noise features events that began seventy-five years ago, the material is eerily timely. As Eastern Europe grapples with this horrific legacy, and many countries are reassessing their responses to mass immigration, those in a position to bear witness need a supportive environment wherein art and language serve to remind the world what can occur when hatred and the concept of ethnic cleansing are given free rein.
£32.00
The University of Chicago Press By Words Alone The Holocaust in Literature
Book SynopsisThe creative literature that evolved from the Holocaust constitutes an unprecedented encounter between art and life. Those who wrote about the Holocaust were forced to extend the limits of their imaginations to encompass unspeakably violent extremes of human behavior. The result, as Ezrahi shows in By Words Alone, is a body of literature that transcends national and cultural boundaries and shares a spectrum of attitudes toward the concentration camps and the world beyond, toward the past and the future.
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Other Peoples Troubles Phoenix Poets
Book SynopsisThe son of a Holocaust survivor, Jason Sommer writes of troubles which unfold in history and in the making of personality; of self and other; and of wakefulness and sleep. The poetic voice is one who emerges from the Holocaust, telling the stories of those who suffered.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Walter Benjamins Grave
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The University of Chicago Press Walter Benjamins Grave
Book SynopsisIn September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt to escape the Nazis. This is an essay about his cemetery, eyewitness accounts of Benjamin's border travails, and the circumstances of his demise.Trade Review"If Hunter S. Thompson had been trained by Boas in anthropology, Engels in economics, and Arendt in philosophy, he might write something like Taussig." - Publishers Weekly "Blending fact and fiction, ethnographic observation, archival history, literary theory and memoir, his books read more like beatnik novels than somber analyses of other cultures." - New York Times"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Space and Time under Persecution
Book SynopsisA new history of how the Nazi era upended German-Jewish experiences of space and time from eminent historian Guy Miron. In Space and Time under Persecution, Guy Miron considers how social exclusion, economic decline, physical relocation, and, later, forced evictions, labor, and deportation under Nazi rule forever changed German Jews' experience of space and time. Facing ever-mounting restrictions, German Jews reimagined their worldsdevising new relationships to traditional and personal space, new interpretations of their histories, and even new calendars to measure their days. For Miron, these tactics reveal a Jewish community's attachment to German bourgeois life as well as their defiant resilience under Nazi persecution.Trade Review“With a nimble weave of excerpts from diaries, memoirs, and correspondence, Miron adumbrates the tormented strategies devised by German Jews to cope with their incremental exclusion from the public space and civil religion of Nazi Germany. A veritable scholarly tour de force, Space and Time under Persecution also enriches the theoretical literature on the construction and experience of time and space.” -- Paul Mendes-Flohr, University of Chicago“A highly original and sophisticated argument about the perception of space and time among Jews in Nazi Germany. Drawing on personal memoirs and diaries, Miron shows how German Jews adapted (painfully) to the limits on their public (and later, private) spaces and to the Nazification of their daily and annual rhythms. Miron shows not only how the Nazis limited and destroyed Jewish space and time, but also how Jews used their own agency and imagination to reconfigure as much space and time as they could.” -- Marion Kaplan, New York University“Through meticulous documentation of a series of case studies, and with superb attention to detail, Miron conjures an unforgettable picture of the shrinking mental universe of German Jews after 1933. This is a powerful work of scholarship that would be of great interest to scholars of modern German history, Jewish history, and the history and sociology of time and space.” -- Yair Mintzker, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1. Space Chapter 1. Public Space Chapter 2. Jewish Places and Spaces Chapter 3. At Home Part 2. Time Chapter 4. The Circle of Time Chapter 5. The Flow of Time Chapter 6. Turning toward the Past Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Space and Time under Persecution
Book SynopsisTrade Review“With a nimble weave of excerpts from diaries, memoirs, and correspondence, Miron adumbrates the tormented strategies devised by German Jews to cope with their incremental exclusion from the public space and civil religion of Nazi Germany. A veritable scholarly tour de force, Space and Time under Persecution also enriches the theoretical literature on the construction and experience of time and space.” -- Paul Mendes-Flohr, University of Chicago“A highly original and sophisticated argument about the perception of space and time among Jews in Nazi Germany. Drawing on personal memoirs and diaries, Miron shows how German Jews adapted (painfully) to the limits on their public (and later, private) spaces and to the Nazification of their daily and annual rhythms. Miron shows not only how the Nazis limited and destroyed Jewish space and time, but also how Jews used their own agency and imagination to reconfigure as much space and time as they could.” -- Marion Kaplan, New York University“Through meticulous documentation of a series of case studies, and with superb attention to detail, Miron conjures an unforgettable picture of the shrinking mental universe of German Jews after 1933. This is a powerful work of scholarship that would be of great interest to scholars of modern German history, Jewish history, and the history and sociology of time and space.” -- Yair Mintzker, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1. Space Chapter 1. Public Space Chapter 2. Jewish Places and Spaces Chapter 3. At Home Part 2. Time Chapter 4. The Circle of Time Chapter 5. The Flow of Time Chapter 6. Turning toward the Past Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£25.00
The University of Chicago Press Remembering to Forget Holocaust Memory Through
Book SynopsisRevealing the unique significance of the concentration camp photographs, this text shows how they have become the basis of our memory of the Holocaust and how they have affected our presentations and perceptions of contemporary history's subsequent atrocities.
£23.00
Columbia University Press The Duplicity of Philosophys Shadow
Book SynopsisElliot R. Wolfson intervenes in the debate over Martin Heidegger and Nazism from a unique perspective, as a scholar of Jewish mysticism and philosophy who has been profoundly influenced by Heidegger’s work. He reveals crucial aspects of Heidegger’s thinking that betray an affinity with dimensions of Jewish thought.Trade ReviewIf Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe was right when stating that the ‘secret of Nazism is buried in Heidegger,’ we must face down this troubled legacy. Elliot Wolfson leads us to the uncomfortable zone of true thinking. Without condemnation but on the razor’s edge of incessant probing, the work calls up a recasting of political engagement. Mere condemnation or strategies of avoidance can no longer cut it. -- Avital Ronell, New York UniversityThe Duplicity of Philosophy's Shadow represents one of the most sustained and creative engagements with the legacy of Heidegger. Rather than marginalize Heidegger and ostracize those who engage his writings, Wolfson instead opts for critical engagement and intellectual honesty. His poetic wrestling is simultaneously exciting and timely. -- Aaron W. Hughes, University of RochesterIn The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow, Wolfson gathers together immense amounts of documentation and compresses it into a lively, readable analysis that combines scope and comprehensiveness with incisive focus on the core issues. He has the talent and the patience to deliver the painstaking labor necessary to provide such syntheses. Wolfson’s scholarly expertise deeply impresses this work with his own signature. -- William Franke, Vanderbilt UniversityNeither apologetic nor denunciatory, Wolfson masterfully summons the lucidity of a philosopher, the erudition of a scholar, and the profoundness of a mystic to face one of modern thought’s most disturbing riddles: how could Heidegger bring so much philosophical light and evince so much political darkness? In this powerful, crepuscular display, Heideggerian and kabbalistic insights on the ambiguity of truth converge to elucidate the philosopher’s very darkness as the shadow of his philosophical radiance. -- Elad Lapidot, Free University of BerlinThis rich scholarly treatment of Heidegger's social, political, and philosophical life adds a voice to Heideggerian studies that should not be missed....Highly recommended. * Choice *Elliot Wolfson’s The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other is, in my opinion, the most sophisticated engagement with the 'problem' of Martin Heidegger’s Nazism in the English language * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsPreface: Calculating Heidegger’s Miscalculation1. Barbaric Enchantment: From Existential Ontology to Abyssal Meontology2. Nomadism, Homelessness, and the Obfuscation of Being3. Jewish Time and the Historiographical Eclipse of Historical Destiny4. Being’s Tragedy: Heidegger’s Silence and the Ring of Solitude5. Political Disavowal: Truth and Concealing the Unconcealment6. Heidegger, Balaam, and the Duplicity of Philosophy’s ShadowAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex
£79.20
Columbia University Press Desolation and Enlightenment
Book SynopsisIn this major intellectual history, Ira Katznelson examines the works of Hannah Arendt, Robert Dahl, Richard Hofstadter, Karl Polanyi, and others. In light of their epoch’s calamities, these intellectuals insisted that the tradition of Enlightenment thought required a new realism, a good deal of renovation, and much recommitment.Trade ReviewIn this masterful excursion into the history of ideas, Katznelson explores how a 'reconstructionist' generation of political scholars has since attempted to make sense of these dark times and rethink the bases of political theory and liberal community... Although the book was written largely before the attacks of September 11, 2001, it speaks powerfully to today's struggles to reconcile liberal values with a new threat of violence. -- G. John Ikenberry * Foreign Affairs *Katznelson's book remarkably (re)describes post-World War II American political studies... This is an important book. -- Maurice Meilleur * Antioch Review *[An] eloquent volume. . . . Timely and important. * Perspectives on Politics *Desolation and Enlightenment is a passionate call to arms.... [Katznelson's] book provides inspiration and considerable guidance for anyone who believes in the social responsibilities of intellectuals. * Ethics & International Affairs *Rich and thoughtful. . . . Contemporary political scientists have produced no better or more profound account of twentieth-century Western political theory. * International Studies Review *Katznelson's book is an excellent study of one episode in the history of social sciences, an episode that is by no means interesting only to historians. Historical institutionalism is still a very productive approach and Desolation and Enlightenment helps to identify the strengths and limitations of this approach that may be hidden to its contemporary advocates and critics... Katznelson's work shows how real the dilemmas of the political studies enlightenment group are to all of us. * European Journal of Social Theory *Katznelson's book is well written, a clear yet crystalline, multifaceted examination of the plight of Enlightenment thought. * Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments1. Beyond Common Measure2. The Origins of Dark Times3. A Seminar on the State4. A New ObjectivityIndex
£71.25
Columbia University Press Desolation and Enlightenment
Book SynopsisIn this major intellectual history, Ira Katznelson examines the works of Hannah Arendt, Robert Dahl, Richard Hofstadter, Karl Polanyi, and others. In light of their epoch’s calamities, these intellectuals insisted that the tradition of Enlightenment thought required a new realism, a good deal of renovation, and much recommitment.Trade ReviewIn this masterful excursion into the history of ideas, Katznelson explores how a 'reconstructionist' generation of political scholars has since attempted to make sense of these dark times and rethink the bases of political theory and liberal community... Although the book was written largely before the attacks of September 11, 2001, it speaks powerfully to today's struggles to reconcile liberal values with a new threat of violence. -- G. John Ikenberry * Foreign Affairs *Katznelson's book remarkably (re)describes post-World War II American political studies... This is an important book. -- Maurice Meilleur * Antioch Review *[An] eloquent volume. . . . Timely and important. * Perspectives on Politics *Desolation and Enlightenment is a passionate call to arms.... [Katznelson's] book provides inspiration and considerable guidance for anyone who believes in the social responsibilities of intellectuals. * Ethics & International Affairs *Rich and thoughtful. . . . Contemporary political scientists have produced no better or more profound account of twentieth-century Western political theory. * International Studies Review *Katznelson's book is an excellent study of one episode in the history of social sciences, an episode that is by no means interesting only to historians. Historical institutionalism is still a very productive approach and Desolation and Enlightenment helps to identify the strengths and limitations of this approach that may be hidden to its contemporary advocates and critics... Katznelson's work shows how real the dilemmas of the political studies enlightenment group are to all of us. * European Journal of Social Theory *Katznelson's book is well written, a clear yet crystalline, multifaceted examination of the plight of Enlightenment thought. * Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments1. Beyond Common Measure2. The Origins of Dark Times3. A Seminar on the State4. A New ObjectivityIndex
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University of Illinois Press Unwanted Beauty
Book SynopsisControversial questions about beauty in artistic depictions of the HolocaustTrade Review"Unwanted Beauty is a significant contribution not only for scholars of the Holocaust, but also for those interested in the interplay between aesthetics, witnessing, and historical violence."--Women's Study Quarterly
£27.90
University of Illinois Press Escape to Manila
Book SynopsisA harrowing account of Jewish refugees in the PhilippinesTrade Review“The book’s riveting centerpiece combines military history and personal horror to describe the Battle of Manila. . . . Burned out of their homes, Jews roam the streets with other civilians, seeking safe havens, crouching to dodge bullets, hiding in holes dug in the ground covered with corrugated roofing. . . . Escape to Manila . . . enables readers to know and feel the fires.”--Hadassah Magazine"Ephraim has constructed a fascinating narrative from a rich mix of archival research, oral history, and autobiographical memoir. He offers us a stirring portrait of a community of resourceful, resilient, courageous, and compassionate individuals."--Michael Shapiro, director, Program in Jewish Culture and Society, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign"The vignettes and first person histories make for very interesting reading."--Jewish Book WorldTable of ContentsForeword by Stanley Karnow; Acknowledgments; Prologue 1. Destination: The Philippines; 2. Unexpected Arrivals; 3. The First Wave of Refugees; 4. Manila Hears about Kristallnacht; 5. Mindanao: A Plan for Jewish Settlement; 6. Establishing a Life; 7. What Does the Future Hold for Us?; 8. Carving Out a Niche; 9. War; 10. Occupation; 11. Can We Hold Out?; 12. The Final Months of Occupation; 13. The Battle; 14. Reestablishing the Community; 15. Leaving the Philippines Notes; Index; Illustrations
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Indiana University Press Teaching Learning and the Holocaust
Book SynopsisClassroom study of the Holocaust evokes strong emotions in teachers and students. This book assesses challenges and approaches to teaching about the Holocaust through history and literature.Trade ReviewIt is indeed a pleasure to recommend this book to professors who want to learn how to initiate and design a Holocaust course at the community college level. * The Jewish Voice *Howard Tinberg and Ronald Weisberger have given us a wonderful book that documents their journey in teaching the Shoah through merging the perspectives of literature and history. . . I recommend this book to all colleagues who wish to have a close look at how collaborative teaching can be a successful, albeit challenging enterprise.June 2014 * Asian Journal Scholarship Teaching and Learning *Tinberg and Weisberger's pedagogical journey is a refreshing account of ways to model methods and habits, to encourage students to transfer those methods and habits to new domains and situations, to create opportunities for integrative learning, to foster both the affective and critical response, and to teach and write with colleagues outside one's discipline and area of expertise. Their humble approach is inspiring, their research exemplary. * Impact *This is a book that I will unhesitatingly recommend to all teachers interested in pushing disciplinary boundaries and enhancing students' learning perspective through integrating multiple viewpoints. This is a journey worth taking. 2.2 2014 * Teaching and Learning Inquiry *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Contexts2. Discipline3. What We Knew and When We Knew It 4. Bystanders and Agents5. Witnesses6. Trauma7. Reclaiming FaithAppendix A: Course SyllabusAppendix B: Reading Journal TemplateAppendix C: Critical Research ProjectAppendix D: Midterm and Final Exams
£56.10
Indiana University Press The Phenomenon of Anne Frank
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Reasonable, elegant, sometimes provocative, essential."—Ian Buruma, author of Year Zero: A History of 1945"Everything you want to know about the Anne Frank phenomenon, about the perception and the effect of the text, whose writer became an icon, is said within these pages."—Wolfgang Benz, author of A Concise History of the Third ReichTable of ContentsAuthor's NoteTranslator's NoteIntroduction1. Frankfurt – Amsterdam – Bergen-Belsen2. Anne Frank: From Diary to Het Achterhuis/Das Tagebuch/Le Journal/The Diary 3. Anne Frank on Broadway: The Play 4. Anne Frank in Hollywood: The Movie5. Anne's Diary under Attack6. Who Owns Anne Frank?7. A Girl's Book or Literature?8. How to Continue in the 21st Century?Bibliography
£8.99
Indiana University Press The Phenomenon of Anne Frank
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Reasonable, elegant, sometimes provocative, essential."—Ian Buruma, author of Year Zero: A History of 1945"Everything you want to know about the Anne Frank phenomenon, about the perception and the effect of the text, whose writer became an icon, is said within these pages."—Wolfgang Benz, author of A Concise History of the Third ReichTable of ContentsAuthor's NoteTranslator's NoteIntroduction1. Frankfurt – Amsterdam – Bergen-Belsen2. Anne Frank: From Diary to Het Achterhuis/Das Tagebuch/Le Journal/The Diary 3. Anne Frank on Broadway: The Play 4. Anne Frank in Hollywood: The Movie5. Anne's Diary under Attack6. Who Owns Anne Frank?7. A Girl's Book or Literature?8. How to Continue in the 21st Century?Bibliography
£52.70
Indiana University Press Holocaust Public Memory in Postcommunist Romania
Book SynopsisTrade Review Holocaust Public Memory in Postcommunist Romania . . . is an excellent and timely addition to European historiography. The book consists of eight chapters, most of them written by scholars affiliated with the Elie Wiesel Institute. It not only shows the challenges faced in remembering Romania's involvement in the Holocaust, but provides an excellent comparative analysis with other countries in the region. * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsList of AbbreviationsMemory under Construction: Introductory Remarks / Alexandru FlorianPart I: Competing Memories and Historical Obfuscation1. Ethnocentric Mindscapes and Mnemonic Myopia / Ana Bărbulescu2. Post-Communist Romania's Leading Public Intellectuals and the Holocaust / George Voicu3. Law, Justice, and Holocaust Memory in Romania / Alexandru Climescu4. Romania: Neither "Fleishig" nor "Milchig": A Comparative Study / Michael Shafir5. "Wanting-not-to-Know" about the Holocaust in Romania: A Wind of Change? / Simon GeissbühlerPart II: National Heroes, Outstanding Intellectuals or Holocaust Perpetrators?6. Mircea Vulcănescu, a Controversial Case: Outstanding Intellectual or War Criminal? / Alexandru Florian7. Ion Antonescu's Image in Post-Communist Historiography / Marius Cazan8. Rethinking Perpetrators, Bystanders, Helpers/Rescuers, and Victims: A Case Study of Students' Perceptions / Adina BabeşIndex
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Indiana University Press Holocaust Public Memory in Postcommunist Romania
Book SynopsisTrade Review Holocaust Public Memory in Postcommunist Romania . . . is an excellent and timely addition to European historiography. The book consists of eight chapters, most of them written by scholars affiliated with the Elie Wiesel Institute. It not only shows the challenges faced in remembering Romania's involvement in the Holocaust, but provides an excellent comparative analysis with other countries in the region. * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsList of AbbreviationsMemory under Construction: Introductory Remarks / Alexandru FlorianPart I: Competing Memories and Historical Obfuscation1. Ethnocentric Mindscapes and Mnemonic Myopia / Ana Bărbulescu2. Post-Communist Romania's Leading Public Intellectuals and the Holocaust / George Voicu3. Law, Justice, and Holocaust Memory in Romania / Alexandru Climescu4. Romania: Neither "Fleishig" nor "Milchig": A Comparative Study / Michael Shafir5. "Wanting-not-to-Know" about the Holocaust in Romania: A Wind of Change? / Simon GeissbühlerPart II: National Heroes, Outstanding Intellectuals or Holocaust Perpetrators?6. Mircea Vulcănescu, a Controversial Case: Outstanding Intellectual or War Criminal? / Alexandru Florian7. Ion Antonescu's Image in Post-Communist Historiography / Marius Cazan8. Rethinking Perpetrators, Bystanders, Helpers/Rescuers, and Victims: A Case Study of Students' Perceptions / Adina BabeşIndex
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