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Book SynopsisArgues that humour performs political, cultural, and social functions in the wake of horror. David Slucki, Gabriel Finder and Avinoam Patt have assembled an impressive list of contributors who examine what is at stake in deploying humor in representing the Holocaust. Namely, what are the boundaries?

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Book SynopsisExamines texts that portray the inner experience of Holocaust perpetrators and thus transform them from archetypes of evil into complex psychological and moral subjects. Erin McGlothlin analyses these unsettling depictions which manifest a certain tension regarding the ethics of representation and identification.

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Book SynopsisAnalyses how the heroic saga of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was mythologized in a way that captured the attention of Jews around the world, allowing them to imagine what it might have been like to be there, engaged in the struggle against the Nazi oppressor.

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Book SynopsisPresents essays mapping the history of relief parcels sent to Jewish prisoners during World War II. More than Parcels: Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi-Era Camps and Ghettos explores the horrors of the Holocaust by focusing on the systematic starvation of Jewish civilians confined to Nazi ghettos and camps.Trade Review"More than Parcels is an impressive and readable anthology on a topic that has not played a major role in historical research for a long time..." - SEHEPUNKTE Online Journal [translated from German]

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Book SynopsisWhere was God during the Holocaust? And where has God been since? Holocaust Theology provides a panoramic survey of the writings of more than one hundred leading Jewish and Christian thinkers on these profound theological problems.Trade Review""Rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok has provided a much needed and indeed "panoramic survey of Holocaust theology" (1) that offers a comprehensive overview of excerpts from representative writings in the field. Holocaust Theology: A Reader provides a fine, comprehensive overview of the interpretive possibilities."" * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *""Holocaust Theology: A Reader should prove useful as an introductory text which grapples with complex issues."" * SHOFAR *""This anthology does indeed offer a panoramic survey, and thus is a valuable contribution to Holocaust literature.]"" * The Princeton Seminary Bulletin *

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Book SynopsisA major re-examination of postwar American Jewry that debunks the assumption of silenceTrade ReviewDiner sets out to drive a stake, once and for all, through the heart of a historical falsehood that has proved remarkably durable. This is the notion that, as Diner's subtitle has it, American Jews were initially & silent about the Holocaustthat the greatest catastrophe in Jewish history was somehow swept under the rug of American Jewrys collective consciousness. . . . Perhaps the & myth of silence was a necessary stage in American Jewrys ongoing struggle to make sense of its place in a post-Holocaust world. But even if that myth once served a need, thanks to Hasia Diners work, it must now be retired for good. * Tablet Magazine *Diners worthy, innovative, diligently researched work should spark controversy and meaningful dialogue among Holocaust scholars and in the Jewish community. * Publishers Weekly *We Remember's real interest lies not only in its polemical conclusion, but also in its primary argument and supporting evidence. -- Simon Perego * Books & Ideas *Diner's superb study effectively shatters this notion of avoidance, and argues effectively that American Jews were engaged with the Holocaust and its impact in deep and meaningful ways for many years preceding the trial. She has uncovered massive amounts of untapped evidence of 'widespread and intense American Jewish engagement with the Holocaust precisely in the years when silence supposedly reigned' (367)....Diner drives her point home with a scrupulous research and clear prose style that is readily accessible to the general public. By successfully proving that historical accounts of Jews avoiding the Holocaust in the postwar era are incorrect, Diner's account is revolutionist history at its best. -- Patricia Kollander * Yearbook of German-American Studies *A powerful book worthy of its important subject. Diner revises our understanding of the critical postwar decades when American Jews incorporated bitter memories of the murder of European Jews into their collective consciousness. -- Deborah Dash Moore,author of GI JewsA startling and passionate work of history. No one has written about the early American Jewish response to the Holocaust with more insight, sophistication, and sensitivity. -- Gary Gerstle,author of American CrucibleFor several years the debate over postwar responses to the Jewish catastrophe has simply recycled the same data, with partisans declaring that the cup is neither half empty or half full depending on their point of view. Now, thanks to the mountain of evidence she has excavated, Hasia Diner has landed a knockout punch on those who assert that after 1945 American Jews were silent about the fate that befell the Jewish communities in Nazi-occupied Europe, preferring to forget about it while busily integrating into American society and enjoying the postwar boom. -- David Cesarani,Royal Halloway, University of LondonFundamentally challenges the now widespread view that before the 1960s American Jewry showed little interest in the Holocaust. With a wealth of fascinating documentation, We Remember with Reverence and Love provides a moving account of the early efforts in the U.S. to document, commemorate, and memorialize the tragic fate of the Jews during the Second World War. -- Antony Polonsky,Brandeis UniversityThis research should convince even the most recalcitrant that American Jewry did care far beyond the mundane purposes to which some misused the Holocaust. . . . No course on the postwar period in American Jewish history can afford to ignore it. * The Journal of American History *In her new book We Remember With Reverence and Love. . . Diner argues that Jews not only did not want to forget the Holocaust in the postwar years, but actually pushed hard to memorialize it. * The Jewish Week *Diner sets out to drive a stake, once and for all, through the heart of a historical falsehood that has proved remarkably durable. This is the notion that, as Diner"s subtitle has it, American Jews were initially & silent about the Holocaustthat the greatest catastrophe in Jewish history was somehow swept under the rug of American Jewrys collective consciousness. . . . Perhaps the & myth of silence was a necessary stage in American Jewrys ongoing struggle to make sense of its place in a post-Holocaust world. But even if that myth once served a need, thanks to Hasia Diners work, it must now be retired for good. * The New Republic *Diner hurls a passionate, well-delineated attack on the conventional view that postwar Jews and survivors wanted to forget the Holocaust rather than memorialize the tragedy. . . . A work of towering research and conviction that will surely enliven academic debates for years to come. * Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review *Diner refutes the conventional wisdom that the American Jewish community ignored, or actively resisted, discussing the Holocaust until the 1960s. She makes a convincing case that in the post-1945 era American Jews, through their communal and religious institutions, assiduously grappled with the question of how to understand and commemorate the Holocaust. . . . An important contribution to American Jewish historiography. * Library Journal *Uncovers a rich and varied trove of remembrances in song, literature, liturgy, public display, and hundreds of other forms. * New Jersey Jewish News *A lively and controversial book, it is sure to spark debate and conversation for years to come. * Jewish Book World *Through her meticulously researched book, Diner helps to restore the vital postwar years to our understanding of American Jewish history and to honor those Jewish men and women who helped pick up the pieces of a shattered Jewish world. * Jewish Woman Magazine *In the last hundred pages of her book, Diner turns to other factors that led to more widespread memorialization of Holocaust victims and discusses the evolution of Holocaust commemoration in the United States. She commands enormous knowledge and her observations are astute. * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *The book details how, nationwide, Jews in those years memorialized the victims, documented the catastrophe, mobilized for survivors, sought justice from Germany, and used the Holocaust both to advance a political agenda and to build a Jewish future in America. * Forward *Diner conclusively disproves American Jewish Holocaust amnesia before 1962 or 1967... In over five hundred pages of massively researched text and notes, including numerous illustrations, we see documented in great detail how American Jews not only remembered and memorialized the six million during those earlier years; they invoked them in almost everything they said and did as a community, particularly in the struggle for civil rights, where they drew from memories of Nazism a special hatred and fear for American racism, segregation, and bigotry. * H-Net Reviews *Dismantles the idea of American Jewish & Forgetfulness about the Shoah in the post-war years. * Detroit Jewish News *Diners book successfully proves that American Jews did remember the Holocaust with reverence and love prior to the early 1960s. Rich in documentation, her work challenges preconceived notions extent in many areas. * American Historical Review *The evidencefrom youth groups programs, to memorial ceremonies, from early (and admittedly failed) efforts to build monuments, to synagogue programsis quite overwhelming. So resourcefully has Diner tracked down sermons and song lyrics, posters and programs, that this reviewer finds it hard to imagine any future historians continuing to perpetrate the claim that an explicit communal consciousness of the Holocaust did not really surface until the 1960s. * AJS *Diner persuasively and methodically demonstrates that American Jews established a strong interest in the genocide of European Jewry as early as the waning months of the war. * American Jewish Archives Journal *Diner’s compelling, albeit lengthy, study is an extremely important addition to the literature. Probing and compassionate, it dynamically challenges the myth of silence that has been so durable in popular and scholarly accounts of postwar American Jewish life. * American Jewish Archives Journal *Only a seasoned, mature, and brilliant scholar such as Professor Diner could take it upon herself to challenge long-accepted beliefs maintained by an entire school of historians who preceded her. . .[her] work is a very important, critical addition to the massive output of Holocaust research. * Association of Jewish Libraries *Diner seeks in this passionate volume to shatter the widespread myth that US Jews from 1945 to 1962 had little interest in thinking about, engaging with, and memorializing the Holocaust. * CHOICE *Diner seeks in the passionate volume to shatter the widespread myth that U.S. Jews from 1945 to 1962 & had little interest in thinking about, engaging with, and memorializing the Holocaust. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Deeds and Words1 Fitt ing Memorials2 Telling the World3 The Saving Remnant 4 Germany on Their Minds 5 Wrestling with the Postwar World 6 Facing the Jewish Future Conclusion: Th e Corruption of History, the Betrayal of Memory Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisProvides a fresh take on present day issues such as Israel and the "new Anti-Semitism"Trade ReviewA timely and important volume that ought to be essential reading for students and scholars alike. The Shoah did not begin with concentration camps and trains. It began with words and ideas. The lies of the Protocols played a key role in marginalizing and dehumanizing European Jewry, paving the way for their brutal extermination. Remarkably, in the contemporary context, the Protocols are once again becoming widely used as effective propaganda, especially throughout much of the Middle East. . . . This text provides an interdisciplinary, high calibre, scholarly analysis of a subject matter that is under-studied and of profound importance. -- Charles Asher Small,Former Executive Director of the Yale Intiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of AntisemitismA set of thoughtful essays that examine the origins and absurd persistence of this influential forgery, informative assessments of the anti-Semitic conspiratorial imagination in Europe, Japan, the United States and in the Middle East, and lively debates about the way Western and Jewish intellectuals have responded to the recent forms in which the old hatred has found expression. -- Jeffrey Herf,author of The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propagandad During World War II and the HolocaustTable of Contents1 Introduction Richard Landes and Steven T. KatzPart I. 2 The Melian Dialogue, the Protocols, and the Paranoid Imperative Richard Landes 3 The Apocalyptic Other Charles B. StrozierPart II. 4 The Devil's Hoofs Jeffrey R. Woolf 5 Thomas of Monmouth and the Protocols of the Sages of Narbonne Johannes HeilPart III. 6 "The Antichrist as an Imminent Political Possibility" Michael Hagemeister 7 Protocols of the Elders of Zion Jeffrey Mehlman 8 "Jewish World Conspiracy" and the Question of Secular Religions Paul Zawadski 9 The Turning Point David RedlesPart IV. 10 The Protocols in Japan David G. Goodman 11 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Itamar Marcus and Barbara CrookPart V. 12 Anti-Semitism from Outer Space Michael Barkun 13 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion on the Contemporary American Scene Deborah Lipstadt 14 Protocols to the Left, Protocols to the Right Chip BerletPart VI. 15 Conspiracy Then and Now Stephen Eric Bronner 16 Jewish Self-Criticism, Progressive Moral Schadenfreude, and the Suicide of Reason Richard Landes About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisReveals how receptive Germans were to the notion of a millennial Reich such as that offered by HitlerTrade ReviewDavid Redles has tackled one of the most sensitive subjects in millennial studiesthe Nazis. He has done an extraordinarily careful and brilliant analysis of the archival material to reveal Hitler's messianic charisma, his appeal both on the ideological and psychological level, illustrating that if you can convince people that they live in apocalyptic times and you have the key to their collective salvation, you can get them to do anything. Given that we live in times that lend themselves to such interpretations, we had best understand the apocalyptic dynamics of reactionary modernism. -- Richard Landes,Director, Center for Millennial Studies, Department of History, Boston UniversityThe apocalyptic dimension of Hitler and his exterminatory project has often been noted but never developed with the completeness and sophistication of David Redles. This brilliant book will enlighten, surprise, and awaken. It is a story, unfortunately, of continuing relevance for the contemporary world as it grapples with the new terrorism. -- Charles B. Strozier,author of Apocalypse: On the Psychology of Fundamentalism in AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Nazism, Myth, and Meaning 1 A World Turned Upside Down: Weimar Chaos and the Culture of Apocalypse 2 The Turning Point: Racial Apocalypse or Racial Salvation 3 Seeing the Light: The Nazi Conversion Experience 4 Hitler as Messiah 5 The Messiah Legitimated: Linking the Leader and the Led6 Final Empire, Final War, Final Solution Appendix: The Hitler Gospels and Old Guard Testimonials: Reconstructing a Mythical World Notes IndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisDiscusses the enduring legacy of Holocaust restitution litigation, which is already being used as a model for obtaining justice for historical wrongs on both the domestic and international stageTrade ReviewA masterly study of the search for justice against long odds. Its analysis is compelling, its importance immense. It is also a fascinating read. -- Daniel Jonah Goldhagen,author of Hitlers Willing Executioners and A Moral ReckoningAn incisive work of legal history and an invaluable guide to the litigation involving Holocaust-era assets. Bazyler offers an elegant and up-to-date study that will prove indispensable for those interested in restitution law, the Holocaust, and the issue of historical injustice. -- Jonathan Petropoulos,former Research Director, Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States.An indispensable guide to the complex and controversial struggle for justice in the aftermath of the Holocaust. -- Michael Berenbaum,The University of JudaismMichael Bazyler brings the passion of a child of Holocaust survivors and the tenacious investigative skills of a lawyer in addressing the complexities of Holocaust restitution. The result is courageous, provocative, and sobering. -- Rabbi Abraham Cooper,Simon Wiesenthal CenterThis book should be read by everyone interested in how some measure of justice was obtained for victims of the Holocaust and about how issues of historical injustice should be addressed by the international community. -- Paul Hoffman,Chair, Amnesty InternationalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface 1 Suing the Swiss Banks2 German Industry and Its Slaves 3 Reclaiming Prewar Insurance Policies 4 Confronting the French Banks 5 Litigating Holocaust Looted Art 6 The Distribution Controversies 7 The Legacy and Consequences of Holocaust Restitution 8 The Post-Holocaust Restitution Era: Holocaust Restitution As a Model for Addressing Other Historical Injustices Notes Relevant Web Sites Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book Synopsis1943: Polish underground fighter John Wiernicki is captured and beaten by the Gestapo, then shipped to Auschwitz. In this memoir, Wiernicki, a Gentile, details "life" in the infamous death camp, and his battle to survive, physically and morally, in the face of utter evil.Trade ReviewIn this simple but harrowing memoir, Wiernicki recounts his involvement with the Polish underground and his subsequent imprisonment in Nazi labor and death camps. What emerges is a raw expose of the evil perpetrated against millions. Wiernicki, a Polish partisan, was captured by the Gestapo in 1943 and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. From there he was sent to Buchenwald, and he escaped during a death march in April 1945 as the Germans forced 2,000 prisoners to flee ahead of advancing Allied troops. The author begins his memoir with a brief description of his prewar years growing up in the city of Lwow, his summer vacations, and his year at the military academy of Lwow, where he had planned to spend the next four years. He then writes of his life as a resistance fighter before being captured. Wiernicki, a gentile, recounts the killing of Jews in Auschwitz-Birkenau and describes his encounters with Josef Mengele and Heinz Thilo, the infamous SS doctors who conducted medical experiments on prisoners. Wiernicki's memoir, which includes 17 black-and-white photographs, is a haunting and intimate account of the Holocaust, written with an almost unbearable clarity.

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Book SynopsisSince the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and recognition of the Holocaust as a watershed event, the capacity of art to represent this event adequately has been questioned. Contributors provide case studies that include a artists from North America, Europe and Israel, and examine some of the dominant themes of their work.Table of Contents "Picturing Death: Better This than Silence," Robert Poor ""Porbing the Limits of the Politics of Representation,"" Jeremy Varon ""After Auschwitz: Art and the Holocaust Six Decades Later,"" Monica Bohm-Duchen ""Jewish Artists in New York: The 1940s,"" Matthews Baigell ""From the Sublime to the Abject: Art and the Holocaust Six Decades Later,"" Andrew Weinstein ""R.B. Kitaj's 'Good Bad' Diasporism and the Body in American Jewish Postmodern Art,"" Sander Gilman ""Bak's Variations on a Theme by Bak,"" Lawrence Langer ""Toward a Post-Holocaust Theology in Art: The Search for the Absent and Present God,"" Stephen Feinstein ""How to Remember,"" Nancy Weston ""Disaster Art: A Plea Against the Peripheral Stuff,"" Pier Marton ""Conversations with Rzeszow: An Artist's Journey,"" Joyce Lyon ""Haunting the Empty Place,"" Ziva Amishai-Maisels

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Book SynopsisEmil Fackenheim was the last in a long line of Jewish philosophers to emerge from Germany, the modern center of Western philosophy, following Moses Mendelssohn, Leo Baeck, and Martin Buber. This book explores Fackenheim's rigorous pursuit of a philosophical response to the tragedy of the Holocaust.Trade ReviewEmil Fackenheim assumed the impossible task of responding to the Nazi annihilation of the Jews of Europe. He engaged in the pursuit of the philosophical implications of the slaughter of the Jewish people on Jewish thought, Judaism, the Jewish people, the State of Israel, and on philosophy itself.

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Book SynopsisDocuments the first-hand experiences in the Holocaust of the Sephardim from Greece, the Balkans, North Africa, Libya, Cos, and Rhodes. The book embraces the Sephardim of all the countries shattered by the Holocaust and pays tribute to the memory of the more than 160,000 Sephardim who perished.Trade ReviewAn important contribution to the study of the Holocaust in the Sephardic context. This is a momentous monograph that encompasses 40 years of research by an eminent and trailblazing researcher." —Shmuel Refael, author of Conceptualizing the Unconceptualized: La Vida de Adolf Hitler, El Haman Moderno (The Life of Adolf Hitler, The Modern Haman)Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Journey to the Death Camps Chapter 2. Living and Dying in Hell Chapter 3. The Revolt of October 7, 1944 Chapter 4. Medical Experiments Chapter 5. The Death March Chapter 6. Albania, the Mufti, and the Ustashas Chapter 7. Jews from North Africa and Libya, the Invisible Jews Chapter 8. The Place of God in the Holocaust Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFew places in the world carry as heavy a burden of history as Auschwitz. Remembered as the most prominent site of Nazi crimes, Auschwitz has had tremendous symbolic weight in the postwar world. Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration is a history of the Auschwitz memorial site in the years of the Polish People’s Republic.Trade Review“Jonathan Huener has written a magnificent book that will become mandatory reading for everyone interested in the Holocaust, Polish History, Jewish History, or the study of collective memory and commemoration…. This book is full of provocative insights and fascinating analysis, and is certain to generate a great deal of debate and discussion.”“Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration is ... a fascinating and engaging study that makes an important contribution to our understanding of the controversy over memory at Auschwitz and is a highly welcome addition to the growing body of literature on twentieth-century Polish-Jewish relations.” * Slavic Review *

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Book SynopsisIn Evidence is a collection of poems in the voices of allied troops who liberated Nazi concentration camps in Europe in the spring of 1945. Barbara Helfgott Hyett heard poems in the eyewitness testimony of United States soldiers. She has shaped the words of thirty speakers into a songle narrative, a single voice.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores little-known dimensions of the Holocaust on Soviet territory: how the Soviet state and citizens reacted to the annihilation of the Jewish population and how to understand the role of local participants.

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Book SynopsisThis expanded edition features new photographs and a new epilogue on the impact of the discovery of Karl Plagge-especially the story of 83-year-old Alfons von Deschwanden, who, after fifty years of silence, came forward as a veteran of Plagge's unit. His testimony is now part of this growing witness to truth.Trade Review"In this gripping, emotional work, Good explores the life and legacy of a mysterious German officer who secretly defied his government to save Lithuanian Jews during the Holocaust." -- -Matthew Engelhardt Middletown Press "We need to listen to the story of Major Karl Plagge...who redeemed the name of human being in the time of darkness." -- -Rabbi Jack Riemer South Florida Jewish Journal "Inspiring ... are the faithful efforts of the book's author, Dr. Michael Good, a Connecticut physician, whose mother Pearl and her family were mong Major Plagge's (more than 250) lucky saved souls, in tracing an unlikely Nazi's life and assuring the rightful recognition of a mensch who was too humble to acknowledge his own uniqueness." -- -Rabbi Israel Zoberman Southeastern Virginia Jewish News "This is an exceptional story of one man's bravery and compassion in a world where six million Jews were murdered." -Booklist "A poignant and powerful story... [Good's] portrait is vivid; his questions compelling. His answers only deepen the mystery of goodness and its meaning in our age." -- -Michael Berenbaum Director, the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust, Los Angeles "Reconstructs the actions of the German major who saved ... Jewish men, women, and children, including Good's mother, by refusing to follow protocol and outwitting his superiors...a true man of conscience and bravery."-Marek Breiger, L.A. Jewish Journal -- -Marek Breiger L.A. Jewish Journal "...unprecedented insights into the burden of silent memories and a disastrous heritage of guilt." -- -Edith Wyschogrod "This book is a personal quest, personal journey, and a personal history." -Jewish Book World

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This volume contains essays that deal with Levi and his work; others tangentially use Levi's writings or ideas to explore larger issues in Holocaust studies, philosophy, theology, and the problem of representation. They are included here in the spirit that Levi described himself: proud of being "impure" and a "centaur," cognizant that asymmetry is the fundamental structure of organic life." -Shofar "This admirable collection of essays, reflecting a variety of academic disciplines, parallels Levi's own effort to bring all of his scientific and humanistic energies to bear on the task of Holocaust testimony. In so doing, Answering Auschwitz makes a precious contribution to the urgent and growing body of scholarship on Italy's most renowned witness to the genocide of European Jewry." -- -Millicent Marcus Yale University

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Book SynopsisDiscusses the transcultural uses of Holocaust memory in literature, cinema and theory in the French-speaking world from the postwar years to contemporary times. Examines the political force and ethical perils of complicity and practices of historical remembranceTrade Review"A superb example of a new critical memory studies, Memory and Complicity does not eschew the dark sides of remembering atrocity. Sanyal's exposure of complicity - using World War Two France as a telling example, but applicable beyond this one case - is neither accusatory nor guilt-inducing. Instead, the acknowledgment of complicity becomes an inspiring call to action, change and repair for the future." -- -Marianne Hirsch author of The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust "Memory and Complicity is a very impressive book. Sanyal is unusually well acquainted with the relevant literature (which is extensive), her arguments are clear and compelling, her writing is unfailingly lucid and accessible, and her scholarship is beyond reproach." -- -Thomas Trezise Princeton University "Memory and Complicity offers a sophisticated, nuanced, and beautifully written account of the intersecting legacies of genocide and colonialism in postwar France. In this significant and much needed intervention, Sanyal illuminates both the possibilities and dangers of transcultural trauma and memory studies." -- -Michael Rothberg Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of DecolonizationTable of ContentsTable of Contents: Introduction Chapter One: A Soccer Match in Auschwitz: Passing Trauma in Holocaust Studies From Primo Levi's Gray Zone to Giorgio Agamben's Shame Traumatic Complicity From Paradigm to Figure: Rereading the Gray Zone as Allegory Chapter Two: Concentrationary Migrations in and around Albert Camus Figural Contagion and Historical cordon sanitaire: The Plague Memory and Migration: Reenvisioning Algeria Concentrationary Circulations: Le Metier a tisser and Night and Fog Figure as Archive: Reading The Fall with Auschwitz and Algeria History's Endless Cry: Allegory Unbound in The Fall Chapter Three: Auschwitz as Allegory: From Night and Fog to Guantanamo Bay An Aesthetics of Complicity Allegory, Ruins, and History The Transcultural Politics of Concentrationary Memory Colonial Countermemories: Night and Fog in Thiaroye Coda: From Postwar France to Guantanamo Bay Chapter Four: Crabwalk History: Torture, Allegory, and Memory in Sartre Chapter 5: Reading Nazi Memory in Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones Memory's Manufacture: The "Complicity Effect" of a Perpetrator's Testimony Itineraries of Trauma and Tourism Imperial Lanscapes: Intersections of Colonialism and Genocide Chapter Six: Holocaust and Colonial Memory in the Age of Terror: Assia Djebar and Boualem Sansal Urban Palimpsests and the Claims of Memory in Assia Djebar's Les Nuits de Strasbourg Against Identification: Bad Education, Trauma, and Citizenship Holocaust Memory, Gray Zones and the War on Terror: Boualem Sansal's Le Village de l'Allemand Afterword

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Book SynopsisThe book traces the process of creating of a new German memory of the Holocaust after the fall of the Wall. Combining theoretical analysis with historical case studies, the book revisits crucial debates and controversial issues out of which Germany’s new ‘memory culture’ emerged as a collective project and work in progress.Trade Review"The appearance in English of this major text by Aleida Assmann will be welcomed by all scholars of cultural memory. Shadows of Trauma, lucidly translated by Sarah Clift, offers both an important introduction to Assmann's influential thinking about how individuals and societies recall traumatic pasts and a sustained exploration of the memory of the Holocaust and World War II in the German context." -- -Michael Rothberg author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization "For readers of German, Shadows of Trauma is a classic in the field of memory studies. We are fortunate now to benefit from Aleida Assmann's elegant elucidation of key theoretical concepts and analysis of important debates animating the memory of the Second World War and the Holocaust in contemporary Germany. At the same time, Assmann's own original and often surprising conceptualizations of the workings of individual, social, political, and collective memory are as definitive as they are provocative and productive." -- -Marianne Hirsch Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsPreface to the English Language Edition Introduction Part I: Theoretical Foundations 1. From Individual to Collective Constructions of the Past 2. Basic Concepts and Themes of Individual and Collective Memory Part II: Analyses and Case Studies 3. How True are Memories? 4. False Memories: Pathologies of Identity at the End of the Twentieth Century 5. Incorrect Memories: On the Normative Power of Social Frameworks of Memory 6. Five Strategies of Represssion 7. German Narratives of Victimhood 8. Points of Intersection Between Lived Memory and Cultural Memory 9. Lieux de Memoire in Time and Space 10. The Future of Holocaust Memory 11. Europe as a Memory Community Conclusion: Shadows of Trauma Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Forgiveness may be implied in a certain Jewish humor that offers the possibility of forgiveness as its impossibility. Peter Banki makes me think that that a humanity capable of crimes against humanity is in just such a double bind with itself." -- -Jean-Luc Nancy "An extremely well-written, subtle, and moving meditation on the impasses of forgiveness in the face of the Holocaust and other unforgivable crimes, challenging our notions of what it means to be a person and whether there is a universal order of human beings that might allow perpetrator and victim to recognize in each other a shared humanity. Banki's book is an excellent study-supple in its interpretations, limpid in its style-and will be of great interest to students and scholars of literature, political science, philosophy, history, and anthropology." -- -Rochelle Tobias Johns Hopkins UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: To Forgive the Unforgivable 1: The Survival of the Question: Simon Wiesenthal's The Sunflower 2: Reading Forgiveness in a Marrano Idiom: Jacques Derrida 3: Crimes against Humanity or the Phantasm of "we, men" 4: A Hyper-Ethics of Irreconcilable Contradictions: Vladimir Jankelevitch Conclusion: Forgiveness as a Jewish Joke Epilogue: "What an Art of Living!" Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited

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Book SynopsisThis volume builds on recent engagements with Barth in theologies of religion, and opens new conversation between Barth and comparative theology. In each of six religion-specific sections, two theologians offer focused engagements of Barth with themes and figures from another religious tradition, followed by response from a theologian from that tradition itself.Table of ContentsForeword: Some Reflections on Barth and Comparative Theology | ix Francis X. Clooney Introduction | 1 Christian T. Collins Winn and Martha L. Moore-Keish I Barth and Judaism 1 Comparative Theology, Comparative Wisdom, and Covenantal Logic | 19 Randi Rashkover 2 Faith as Immunity to History? Rethinking Barth and Fackenheim | 36 Chris Boesel Response to Part I | 57 Peter Ochs II Barth and Buddhism 3 Barth’s Theology of Religion and Dōgen’s Nondualism | 67 James Farwell 4 Barth and Universal Salvation: A Mahayana Buddhist Perspective | 85 Pan-Chiu Lai Response to Part II | 105 Paul Knitter III Barth and Islam 5 Analogies across Faiths: Barth and Ghazali on Speaking after Revelation | 115 Joshua Ralston 6 Karl Barth and Parousia in Comparative Messianism | 137 Kurt Anders Richardson Response to Part III | 155 Mun‘im Sirry IV Barth and Hinduism 7 God as Subject and Never Object to Us: Reading Kena Upaniṣad with Karl Barth and Śaṅkara | 163 Marc A. Pugliese 8 “Do Not Grieve”: Reconciliation in Barth and Vedanta Desika | 184 John N. Sheveland Response to Part IV | 203 Anantanand Rambachan V Barth and African Traditional Religions 9 Speaking about the Unspeakable: Conversing with Barth and Ejizu on Mediated Divine Action | 211 Victor I. Ezigbo 10 Humanity and Destiny: A Theological Comparison of Karl Barth and African Traditional Religions | 228 Tim Hartman Response to Part V | 249 Nimi Wariboko Conclusion: Barth’s Dreams: Religions as Scandal and Parable | 257 S. Mark Heim Acknowledgments | 265 List of Contributors | 267

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Book SynopsisAn inventive literary account of Cixous’s remarkable journey to her mother’s birthplace and of the Jewish community of a German town that was wiped out in the Holocaust.Table of ContentsForeword by Eva Hoffman | ix Translator’s Preface | xv Preface | xxiii I think of going from Osnabrück to Jerusalem | 1 I do not imagine | 65 One departs from Osnabrück | 115 Translations and References | 135

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Book SynopsisAn inventive literary account of Cixous’s remarkable journey to her mother’s birthplace and of the Jewish community of a German town that was wiped out in the Holocaust.Table of ContentsForeword by Eva Hoffman | ix Translator’s Preface | xv Preface | xxiii I think of going from Osnabrück to Jerusalem | 1 I do not imagine | 65 One departs from Osnabrück | 115 Translations and References | 135

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Book SynopsisRose Zar was 19 years old when the Nazis invaded her native Poland. Her father urged her to save herself by hiding "in the mouth of the wolf" - or within the enemy itself. She managed to obtain false papers, secretly changing her identity and surviving the Holocaust as maid and nanny for a Nazi SS colonel.

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Book SynopsisHannah Szenes grew up in a loving home filled with books, plays, and music. Unfortunately, the rise of the Nazis forced Hannah to immigrate to Palestine, where she became an ardent Zionist pioneer. Haunted by the murder of the Jews by Hitler, she risked her own life to become a resistance fighter, vowing to save as many Jewish lives as possible.

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Book SynopsisThis is the story of how a free civilization decides what to do with the material remains of a world torn asunder, and how those remains connect survivors with their past. It is the story of Jews struggling to understand the new realities of their post-Holocaust world and of Western society’s gradual realization of the magnitude of devastation wrought by World War II.Trade Review"Glickman has produced a provocative history that preserves this important yet often overlooked aspect of the Holocaust, and readers will come away with a valuable perspective on how the written word can be abused for the sake of cultural genocide."—Kirkus"An epic story."—Washington Book Review"This book is a must-read for every Jewish library and every university library as well."—Philip K. Jason, Jewish Book Council"Fascinating and eminently readable."—Rabbi Robert Orkand, jewishreform.org"Stolen Words is an epic story."—Dov Peretz Elkins, Jewish Media Review"Glickman . . . tells this story with skill and authority."—Sheldon Kirshner, Times of Israel“[This is] a compelling and emotionally powerful story.”—Daniel M. Bronstein, historian and contributor to The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish History, Religion, and Culture“A little-known story powerfully told, Stolen Words kept me on the edge of my seat.”—Aaron Lansky, president of the Yiddish Book Center and author of Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books“A genuine page-turner, written with engaging prose and heartfelt passion. . . . As Rabbi Mark Glickman artfully reminds us, books are ultimately the couriers of human civilization. In their redemption we keep faith with our past and sustain hope in our future.”—Gary P. Zola, executive director of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion“A wonderfully written book about an extremely important event in history, neglected until now: the loss and retrieval of Jewish cultural treasures during the Holocaust.”—David E. Fishman, professor of Jewish history at Jewish Theological Seminary and senior research scholar at YIVO Institute for Jewish ResearchTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Loading the Jewish Bookshelf2. Antisemites and the Jewish Written Word3. From Bonfires to Bookshelves4. Talmud Scholars, Hebraists, and Other Nazi Looters5. Pillage6. Resistance7. Rescue8. Restitution9. Looted Books in the New Jewish Landscape10. Jewish Cultural Reconstruction11. Where Are They Now?AfterwordNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThese seventy-one firsthand stories from survivors of the Holocaust teach us to choose to remember for life, for their words are not about hatred and death but about ethics, decency and love. Although the stories are arranged to accompany the weekly Torah readings and many of the Jewish holidays, they are just as meaningful when read on their own, in any sequence.Trade Review“A worthwhile collection.”—Marcia Weiss Posner, Jewish Book WorldTable of ContentsINTRODUCTIONGENESISBere'shit CreativityNoah SurvivalLekh Lekha JourneyVa-yera' HospitalityHayyei Sarah LaughterToledot DeparturesVa-yetse' DreamsVa-yishlah IdentityVa-yeshev DestinyMikkets WisdomVa-yiggash ReunionVa-yehi Legacy EXODUSShemot ParentingVa-'era' LiberatorsBo' RedemptionBe-shallah TriumphYitro CommunityMishpatim JusticeTerumah Sacred SpaceTetsavveh ServiceKi Tissa' HopeVa-yakhel RefugePekudei Success LEVITICUSVa-yikra' SacrificeTsav GivingShemini EatingTazria' SexualityMetsora' Healing'Aharei Mot AtonementKedoshim Love'Emor Sacred TimeBe-har LiberationBe-hukkotai Obligation NUMBERSBe-midbar HomeNaso' BlessingBe-ha'alotekha Starting OverShelah Lekha Self-ConfidenceKorah ResistanceHukkat ContinuityBalak FaithPinhas RestitutionMattot SpeakingMase'ei Protection DEUTERONOMYDevarim CourageVa-'ethannan Teaching'Ekev DevotionRe'eh CelebrationShofetim RighteousnessKi Tetse' MemoryKi Tavo' HomecomingNitsavim Choosing LifeVa-yelekh EducationHa'azinu GodVe-zo't Ha-berakhah Leadership HOLIDAYSRosh Ha-shanahThe Ten Days of RepentanceKol NidreYom KippurShemini 'AtseretSimhat TorahHanukahFast of EstherPurimPesahLast Days of PesahYom Ha-zikaronYom Ha-'atsm'autShavuotTisha' Be-'AvFriday NightShabbat AFTERWORD

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Book SynopsisIn this remarkable, historically significant book, Mordecai Paldiel recounts in vivid detail the many ways in which, at great risk to their own lives, Jews rescued other Jews during the Holocaust. In so doing he puts to rest the widely held belief that all Jews in Nazi-dominated Europe wore blinders and allowed themselves to be led like “lambs to the slaughter”.Trade Review"Paldiel's book includes remarkable stories of remarkable people."—Tammy Mark, Jewish Link of New Jersey“The first of its kind . . . Saving One’s Own is very important because it illustrates the resilience of people in Nazi-occupied Europe and dispels the myth of Jewish passivity during the Holocaust. Thoroughly researched, exciting, and engaging.”—Samuel P. Oliner, author of The Altruistic Personality and The Nature of Good and Evil “Mordecai Paldiel has encyclopedic knowledge of the subject. . . . Country by country, virtually institution by institution, he looks at ways in which Jews rescued Jews. Strongly recommended.”—Michael Berenbaum, scholar, author, filmmaker, and former project director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Table of ContentsList of Photographs Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Germany and Austria: Outwitting the Nazis in Their Home Base 2. Poland: Rescue in the Deadliest Place in Europe 3. Lithuania and Belarus: Getting Out in Time, Refuge in Forest Lairs 4. Slovakia: Negotiating to Stop Deportations 5. Hungary: Zionist Diaspora Youth at Its Best, Some Debatable Rescue Undertakings 6. Croatia and Italy: Children on the Run 7. France: The Many Who Helped Save Most of the Country’s Jews 8. Belgium: Organized Self-Help, Stopping a Deportation Train 9. The Netherlands: Pulling the Wool over the SS’s Eyes, Hiding and a Run across Borders 10. Toward Palestine, the Land of Israel: Boat People on the Danube with the Connivance of the Nazis 11. Switzerland: Outstretched Hands from Nearby 12. Concentration Camps: Flight and Rescue from Hell on Earth and Challenging Himmler 13. England: A Rabbi and the Religious Obligation to Serve 14. United States: Organizational Assistance amid Conflicting Agendas Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive volume to teach about America’s response to the Holocaust through visual media, America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History explores the complex subject through the lens of one hundred important documents that help illuminate and amplify key episodes and issues. Trade Review"Well written and well argued, Medoff’s indictment makes for a compelling read."—Gaëlle Fisher, American Jewish Archives Journal "This work is much more than a documentary history. Rafael Medoff, one of the foremost authorities on American responses to the Holocaust, presents an excellent overview of the subject, drawing on cutting-edge scholarship in the field and providing an in-depth analysis of primary sources. Medoff addresses a wide array of convergent issues. Readers at all levels—scholars of the Holocaust, as well as university and high school students encountering this material for the first time—will find much of value on the Holocaust, the Roosevelt administration, World War II, and antisemitism."—Stephen H. Norwood, Holocaust and Genocide Studies"The division of the Medoff book into 20 chapters makes it an ideal choice for a semester-long high school, college or adult-education class on the Holocaust."—Greater Houston Jewish News"Medoff's documentary history is a valuable source for all readers seeking reference material on the Holocaust tragedy."—C. C. Lovett, Choice“This is an important and long-overdue book—exactly the material students need to understand this crucial chapter in American history and inform them as they consider issues related to genocide in our own time.”—Bat-Ami Zucker, professor of American history at Bar Ilan University“Replacing slogans with facts, uninformed opinions with information, and hyperbole with solid historical documents, this documentary history will go a long way toward helping students and interested lay readers become better informed about the relationship between America and the Holocaust.”—Alan Berger, Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair in Holocaust Studies, Florida Atlantic University“Highly impressive. This expertly constructed documentary history is a major contribution to understanding America’s response to the Holocaust.”—Steven T. Katz, Slater Chair in Jewish Holocaust Studies, Boston University“Provides a vital context by which to approach the American response to the Holocaust. America and the Holocaust will be of direct benefit to educators and students engaged in Holocaust Studies, U.S. immigration history, the history of Jews in the United States, and those undertaking studies of human rights in the twentieth century.”—Paul Bartrop, former professor and director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research, Florida Gulf Coast University“America and the Holocaust is a must for anyone, but especially students and educators, who wish to learn how the U.S. responded to the growing avalanche of anti-Jewish measures culminating in the horrific extermination of millions of European Jews. Appropriate documents highlight the topics under discussion. Rafael Medoff’s well-written book will apprise the reader of everything one needs to know on the response or lack of response of American officialdom and public figures to the danger posed by Nazi Germany, not only to the Jews, who constituted the principal target, but to civilization as a whole.”—Mordecai Paldiel, former director, Department of the Righteous, Yad VashemTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Responses to Hitler’s Rise America Hopes for a Restrained Hitler Document 1.1 “Just in Case He Goosesteps Too Much!” Dorothy Thompson Reports from Germany Document 1.2 “Starve, Humiliate, Degrade the Jew; In Every Walk, Trade Profession, Nazi Pressure in Law and Slogan” The New York Times Interviews Hitler Document 1.3 “Hitler Seeks Jobs for All Germans” Boycotting German Goods Document 1.4 “No Trading with Germany” Hitler on Trial at Madison Square Garden Document 1.5 Hitler on Trial—Resolution and Verdict Further Reading 2. The American Mood Antisemitism in Congress Document 2.1 Congressman John Rankin’s Remarks before the House “Racial Science” Spreads Document 2.2 The Passing of the Great Race Father Coughlin and Hate Radio Document 2.3 Father Coughlin’s Radio Address Concerning Kristallnacht Antisemitic Attitudes among the Public Document 2.4 Polls by Roper (1938) and Opinion Research (1940) on Antisemitic Attitudes Antisemitism in the State Department Document 2.5 Antisemitic Remarks by State Department Officials Further Reading 3. Doing Business with Hitler U.S. Participation in the Nazi Olympics Document 3.1 “To the Sport-Loving Public of the United States” Apologizing to Hitler Document 3.2 Secretary of State Apologizes to Hitler A Cabinet Member Participates in a Pro-Nazi Rally Document 3.3 “‘Heil Hitler’ Resounds as Steuben Society Denounces Boycott, Acclaims New Germany” Censoring Criticism of Hitler Document 3.4 FDR Objects to Secretary of the Interior’s Criticism of Hitler FDR Urges “Quarantining” of Aggressor Nations Document 3.5 “FDR’s Quarantine Speech” Further Reading 4. The Universities and the Nazis Nazi Ambassador Speaks at Columbia Document 4.1 “Luther Calls Hitler Critics ‘Old-Timers’” Nazi Official Visits Harvard Document 4.2 “Render unto Caesar” A Nazi University Celebrates Document 4.3 “Heidelberg” American Students in Nazi Germany Document 4.4 “Germany Discussed by One Who Spent Junior Year There” Abandoning Refugee Scholars Document 4.5 Hamilton College President’s Letter Regarding Hiring Refugee Scholars Further Reading 5. U.S. Immigration Policy Immigration Statistics Document 5.1 “Annual Quotas and Quota Immigrants Admitted, Fiscal Years Ended June 30, 1925 to 1944, by Countries” When Anne Frank Tried to Come to America Document 5.2 Anne Frank’s Father Asks American Industrialist to Help the Frank Family Immigrate “Postpone and Postpone and Postpone” Document 5.3 The Assistant Secretary of State on Ways to Obstruct Immigration The “Close Relatives” Rule Document 5.4 U.S. Immigration Regulation Regarding Applicants Leaving “Close Relatives” Behind Albert Einstein’s Plea to the First Lady Document 5.5 Albert Einstein Asks the First Lady to Oppose New Immigration Restrictions Further Reading 6. Searching for a Haven James McDonald Resigns in Protest Document 6.1 Resignation of the High Commissioner for Refugees Coming from Germany Eyewitness to Horror Document 6.2 “Jews Humiliated by Vienna Crowds” The Evian Conference Document 6.3 Refugee Problem Announcement in Preparation for the Evian Conference Suicide of a Jewish Refugee Document 6.4 “Ends Life to Escape Return to Germany” FDR Responds to Kristallnacht Document 6.5 President Roosevelt’s Statement Concerning the Kristallnacht Pogrom Further Reading 7. The Doomed Journey of the St. Louis Offer of Haven in the Virgin Islands Document 7.1 “Virgin Islands Too Offer Haven for Oppressed Jews” A Child Appeals to the First Lady Document 7.2 Eleven-Year-Old Beseeches the First Lady to Accept the Refugees St. Louis Passengers Appeal to the White House Document 7.3 St. Louis Captain’s Log Record of Passengers’ Telegram to the White House Secretaries of State and Treasury Discuss the St. Louis Document 7.4 Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury Confer on the St. Louis “The Saddest Ship Afloat” Document 7.5 “Refugee Ship” Further Reading 8. The Wagner-Rogers Bill to Save Children The Wagner-Rogers Bill Document 8.1 Text of the Wagner-Rogers Bill (H.R.J. Res. 165 and 168) “20,000 Ugly Adults” Document 8.2 Remark by FDR’s Cousin against Wagner-Rogers President Roosevelt’s Position Document 8.3 FDR’s “File No Action” Note on Wagner-Rogers Helen Hayes Testifies for Admitting Children Document 8.4 “First Lady of the American Theater” Testifies for Admitting German Refugee Children Agnes Waters Testifies against Admitting Children Document 8.5 “Mother Witness” Testifies against Admitting German Refugee Children Further Reading 9. American Rescuers The State Department Rebuffs Varian Fry Document 9.1 “You Should Inform Dr. Bohn and Mr. Fry” The Krauses Rescue Fifty Children from Germany and Austria Document 9.2 Erika Tamar’s Passport to America The Sharps’ Rescue Mission in Czechoslovakia Document 9.3 Martha Sharp’s Recollections about Rescue Work in Czechoslovakia Lois Gunden Shelters Children in Vichy France Document 9.4 Recollections of Hiding French Jewish Children from the Nazis Roddie Edmonds Shields Jewish GIs from the Nazis Document 9.5 Testimony Regarding Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds’s Bravery Further Reading 10. Genocide Confirmed The Bund Report Document 10.1 “Report of the Bund Regarding the Persecution of the Jews—May 1942” The Riegner Telegram Document 10.2 Gerhart Riegner’s Telegram Revealing the Nazis’ Annihilation Plan The Sternbuch Telegram Document 10.3 The Sternbuch Telegram Revealing Additional Details of the Mass Murder The Allies’ Declaration Document 10.4 “German Policy of Extermination of the Jewish Race” Jan Karski Reports to President Roosevelt Document 10.5 A Polish Underground Courier’s 1943 Conversation with President Roosevelt Further Reading 11. All the News the Media Could Fit The New York Times on Babi Yar Document 11.1 Two Reporters’ Contrasting Accounts of the Babi Yar Massacre and Why The Media and the Allies’ Declaration Document 11.2 U.S. News Media’s Coverage of the Allies’ Declaration on the Mass Murder The Media and the Deportations from Hungary Document 11.3 “Jews in Hungary Fear Annihilation” The Nation Urges Rescue Document 11.4 “While the Jews Die” I. F. Stone Investigates Document 11.5 “Justice Department Immigration Figures Knock Long Story into Cocked Hat” Further Reading 12. American Christian Responses Rabbi Wise Pleads with Christian Clergy Document 12.1 Meeting of Rabbi Wise and Christian Clergy, 1933 The U.S. Catholic Press on Kristallnacht Document 12.2 “Nazi Atrocities and the American War Fever: Are We Preparing for War with Germany?” Christian Century Doubts the Holocaust Document 12.3 “Horror Stories from Poland,” “From Rabbi Wise,” “From the Editors” Jewish and Christian Students Speak Out Document 12.4 “On Implementing Brotherhood” A Baptist Farmer’s Gesture Document 12.5 “Farmer Rogers, His Brother’s Keeper” Further Reading 13. American Jewish Responses The President and the Rabbi Document 13.1 Rabbi Wise’s Student Questions His Relationship with FDR Jewish Leaders Appeal to the President Document 13.2 “Report on the Visit to the President” Jewish Congressmen Meet with the President Document 13.3 “Minutes of Dinner Meeting on Wednesday Evening March 22nd at the Statler Hotel” “If They Were Slaughtering Horses” Document 13.4 “Confidential Memorandum of Rabbi Meyer Berlin” Jewish Leaders Discuss Strategy Document 13.5 Meeting of Jewish Leaders Concerning Rescue Advocacy Further Reading 14. The Bermuda Conference A Jewish Proposal for Bermuda Document 14.1 “The Following Proposals Are Respectfully Submitted” Announcement at the End of the Conference Document 14.2 “Report of the Bermuda Meeting on the Refugee Problem” Congressman Emanuel Celler’s Response Document 14.3 Response to Bermuda A Jewish Leader’s Response Document 14.4 “The Mockery at Bermuda” “An Appeal to the Conscience of the World” Document 14.5 “I am taking the liberty of addressing to you, Sirs, these my last words” Further Reading 15. Obstacles to Rescue Congressional Sympathy Document 15.1 Text of the Barkley Resolution (Senate Concurrent Resolution 9) A Cartoonist Challenges the State Department Document 15.2 “Refer to Committee 3, Investigation Subcommittee 6, Section 8B, for Consideration” FDR on “Rescue through Victory” Document 15.3 “Speech of the Honorable A. A. Berle Jr.” The Allies’ Declaration in Moscow Document 15.4 “Declaration of the Four Nations on General Security” Empty Ships for Refugees Document 15.5 “Shipping for Refugees” Further Reading 16. The Campaign for Rescue The Bergson Group’s “Race against Death” Document 16.1 “This Is a Race against Death” The Rabbis’ Petition to FDR Document 16.2 “In the Name of God, Creator of the Universe” Congressional Resolution on Rescue Document 16.3 Text of the Gillette-Rogers Resolution (H. Res. 352) Breckinridge Long’s Testimony Document 16.4 “Statement of Hon. Breckinridge Long, Assistant Secretary of State” Exposing the State Department Document 16.5 “Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews” Further Reading 17. Zionism and the Holocaust The White Paper Document 17.1 “Palestine Statement of Policy Presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by Command of His Majesty” (White Paper) A Christian Zionist Speaks Out Document 17.2 “The Fifth Freedom” Proposed Anglo-American Statement Document 17.3 “Statement for Issuance by the Governments of the United States and the United Kingdom Regarding Palestine” 1944 Republican and Democratic Party Platforms Document 17.4 Republican Party Platform of 1944 and Democratic Party Platform of 1944 FDR’s 1944 Statement on Zionism Document 17.5 Proposals and Revisions of President Roosevelt’s October 1944 Statement Regarding Palestine Further Reading 18. The War Refugee Board Creation of the War Refugee Board Document 18.1 “Executive Order No. 9417 Establishing a War Refugee Board” A Presidential Warning Document 18.2 Proposals and Revisions of President Roosevelt’s March 24, 1944, Statement Regarding Nazi Collaborators A Surprising Poll Document 18.3 Gallup Poll Findings Concerning Temporary Admission of Refugees Rescuing Romanian Jews Document 18.4 Life Line to a Promised Land Raoul Wallenberg’s Mission Document 18.5 With Wallenberg in Budapest Further Reading 19. Bombing Auschwitz The Auschwitz Escapees’ Report Document 19.1 “The Extermination Camps of Auschwitz (Oswiecim) and Birkenau in Upper Silesia” A Plea to Bomb the Railways Document 19.2 Diary of Jacob Rosenheim A Plea to Bomb the Gas Chambers Document 19.3 World Jewish Congress Official Urges Assistant Secretary of War to Bomb Gas Chambers at Auschwitz and Nearby Railways The War Department’s Rejection Letter Document 19.4 Assistant Secretary of War Rejects Proposal to Bomb Railways to Auschwitz A Public Appeal for Bombing Document 19.5 “Last Chance for Rescue” Further Reading 20. Liberation A GI Encounters the Holocaust Document 20.1 Liberation of Dachau Eisenhower Urges Media to See the Camps Document 20.2 Call for Prominent Witnesses to “Conditions of Indescribable Horror” Marlon Brando, Holocaust Witness Document 20.3 A Flag Is Born Play An American Chaplain in Buchenwald Document 20.4 An American Chaplain Encounters Survivors in Buchenwald The Harrison Report Document 20.5 “Report of Earl G. Harrison” State of the Field Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award for the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section presented by the American Sociological AssociationBrings together the study of post-Holocaust family culture with the study of collective memory Over the last two decades, the cross-generational transmission of trauma has become an important area of research within both Holocaust studies and the more broad study of genocide. The overall findings of the research suggest that the Holocaust informs both the psychological and social development of the children of survivors who, like their parents, suffer from nightmares, guilt, fear, and sadness. The impact of social memory on the construction of survivor identities among succeeding generations has not yet been adequately explained. Moreover, the importance of gender to the intergenerational transmission of trauma has, for the most part, been overlooked. In The Holocaust across Generations, Janet Jacobs fills these significant gaps in the study of traTrade ReviewThe book is a very fine piece of scholarship. * American Journal of Sociology *Janet Jacobs has provided us with a thoroughly sociological understanding of the social transmission of collective trauma across generations. It is integrative theoretically and empirically, focusing on the social structures and social relations of transmission, including family processes, rituals and narratives of identity construction, public commemorations, and the sociology of place. There are, as she notes, `multiple landscapes of memory and her sensitive and in-depth empirical work shows many of them. This book will be a valued addition to the sociology of collective memory and to genocide and Holocaust Studies. -- Rhys H. Williams,Loyola University ChicagoThis important book illustrates the social structures through which the trauma of the Holocaust has been transmitted to the children and grandchildren of survivors. Based on carefully documented narratives gathered over ten years, Jacobss contribution is profound and illuminating. -- Wendy Cadge,Brandeis University

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2020 JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material, given by the Jewish Book CouncilThe astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the HolocaustIn March 1946 the American Military Government for Germany established the Offenbach Archival Depot near Frankfurt to store, identify, and restore the huge quantities of Nazi-looted books, archival material, and ritual objects that Army members had found hidden in German caches. These items bore testimony to the cultural genocide that accompanied the Nazis' systematic acts of mass murder. The depot built a short-lived lieu de memoirea mortuary of books, as the later renowned historian Lucy Dawidowicz called itwith over three million books of Jewish origin coming from nineteen different European countries awaiting restitution. A Mortuary of Books tells the miraculous story of the many Jewish organizations and indiviTrade ReviewIn meticulous detail, drawing on archival sources, memoirs, correspondence, and histories, Gallas . . . makes an impressive book debut with a comprehensive history of efforts to recover, identify, and restore artifacts of Jewish culture and scholarship. . . . A fresh, significant contribution to Jewish history. * STARRED Kirkus Review *In this remarkable tale of a little-studied aspect of the Holocaust, Gallas reckons with what the attempted Nazi erasure of Jewish intellectual and cultural heritage means for a people whose identity is tied to a tradition of books and learning... A serious work of Jewish studies scholarship that is important and accessible for anyone interested in the history of the book or postwar Europe. -- Library Journal ReviewA Mortuary of Books is an incredible historical work that will benefit scholars in upcoming generations, partly because this is one aspect of post-Holocaust life that has not received much attention. The sheer amount of detail about the numerous Jewish organizations and officials featured is amazing. -- The ReporterThis well-researched and original monograph not only reconstructs a complex history in a multilayered and nuanced fashion, but also demonstrates the key importance of efforts in the immediate aftermath of the Nazi genocide to create new bases for Jewish culture and politics. * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award for the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section presented by the American Sociological AssociationBrings together the study of post-Holocaust family culture with the study of collective memory Over the last two decades, the cross-generational transmission of trauma has become an important area of research within both Holocaust studies and the more broad study of genocide. The overall findings of the research suggest that the Holocaust informs both the psychological and social development of the children of survivors who, like their parents, suffer from nightmares, guilt, fear, and sadness. The impact of social memory on the construction of survivor identities among succeeding generations has not yet been adequately explained. Moreover, the importance of gender to the intergenerational transmission of trauma has, for the most part, been overlooked. In The Holocaust across Generations, Janet Jacobs fills these significant gaps in the study of traTrade ReviewThe book is a very fine piece of scholarship. * American Journal of Sociology *Janet Jacobs has provided us with a thoroughly sociological understanding of the social transmission of collective trauma across generations. It is integrative theoretically and empirically, focusing on the social structures and social relations of transmission, including family processes, rituals and narratives of identity construction, public commemorations, and the sociology of place. There are, as she notes, `multiple landscapes of memory and her sensitive and in-depth empirical work shows many of them. This book will be a valued addition to the sociology of collective memory and to genocide and Holocaust Studies. -- Rhys H. Williams,Loyola University ChicagoThis important book illustrates the social structures through which the trauma of the Holocaust has been transmitted to the children and grandchildren of survivors. Based on carefully documented narratives gathered over ten years, Jacobss contribution is profound and illuminating. -- Wendy Cadge,Brandeis University

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Book SynopsisIn the wake of the Second World War, how were the Allies to respond to the enormous crime of the Holocaust? Even in an ideal world, it would have been impossible to bring all the perpetrators to trial. Nevertheless, an attempt was made to prosecute some. This book uncovers ten forgotten trials of the Holocaust.Trade ReviewAn invaluable book about significant trials conducted by the United States, certain European countries, and Israel against German government officials, military officers, and non-German collaborators for the Holocaust. It will educate, expand, and enlighten every reader's knowledge about one of the most tragic events in human history, perpetrated by one of the most culturally, medically, scientifically, artistically and politically advanced civilizations the world has ever known. Bazyler and Tuerkheimer have made a most significant contribution to the study of the Holocaust, and the world's response. -- Stan Levy,Founding National Director of the Bet Tzedek Holocaust Survivors Justice NetworkBrings to the reader important trials that have fallen beneath the general publics radar. The authors, as both academics and practicing lawyers, bring a fresh and incisive approach to these trials, dissecting the strategies of the trial lawyers as well as the decision-making by the presiding judges. They manage, in each of these trials, to focus on the defendants, the victims, and the players in the courtroom scene. They present a vivid picture of the holocaust in operation, an essential undertaking as the survivor generation decreases in number. This book is worth reading for anyone interested in trials and for anyone interested in the Holocaust, and it is compelling reading for anyone interested in both. -- Robert M. Morgenthau,former District Attorney, New York CountyFew of these trials are widely remembered. Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust, by legal scholars Michael J. Bazyler and Frank M. Tuerkheimer, is thus especially welcome. . . . Bazyler and Tuerkheimer have made a good start. -- Richard J. Evans * New York Review of Books *For too long, lawyers and legal academics have relegated the Shoah to the margins and shadows of legal discourse. The killing of six million European Jews has either been treated as an extraordinary and unique circumstance beyond law, or more recently, as little more than a precursor event to the development of international criminal law. Michael J. Bazyler and Frank M. Tuerkheimer have rendered an invaluable service to legal practice and scholarship by bringing the Holocaust to the center of the legal profession and discipline. This extraordinary book, by examining the intersections and encounters between law and the Shoah in a number of jurisdictions, across a significant time period, makes it impossible for us to ignore or forget the intimate and complex relationship between law and the Holocaust. -- David Fraser,author of Law After Auschwitz: Towards a Jurisprudence of the HolocaustProvides lucid summaries of ten lesser known trials of participants in Nazi war crimes, along with acute and balanced conclusions about the legal legitimacy and legacy of each proceeding. The authors bring fresh and illuminating perspectives to a matter of urgent concern: understanding how the claims of law and justice should interact in the aftermath of atrocity. -- Peter Hayes,Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor of History, Northwestern UniversityTakes the reader on a journey across nearly six decades, seven countries, and ten different judicial settings to examine a wide variety of ways in which attempts were made to bring Holocaust perpetrators to justice. The authors do not shy from assessing the strengths, weaknesses, and difficulties of each trial and the degree to which justice was served. An important contribution to the history of the judicial aftermath of the Holocaust. -- Christopher R. Browning,author of Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor CampProvides an exceptionally clear, fair-minded, and helpful discussion of the efforts of far-flung jurists to bring perpetrators of the Holocaust to justice. Bazyler and Tuerkheimer bring impressive scholarly acumen and hardboiled lawyerly insight to the task of assessing the successes and shortcomings of trials that sought to submit the most unspeakable crimes to legal judgment. -- Lawrence Douglas,James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought, Amherst CollegeMichael J. Bazyler, a law professor, and Frank M. Tuerkheimer, a trial lawyer, have written an indispensable account of ten & forgotten trials of the Holocaust. * Jewish Book Council *Despite having to take into account as well the differences among ten legal and political systems, Bazyler and Tuerkheimer have demonstrated clear threads in court room evidence that help us better understand the Holocaust. * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Kharkov Trial of 1943: The First Trial of the Holocaust? 2. The Trial of Pierre Laval: Criminal Collaborator or Patriot? 45 3. The Dachau Trial under U.S. Army Jurisdiction 75 4. The Trial of Amon Goth in Postwar Poland: 101 Poland's "Nuremberg" 5. The Hamburg Ravensbruck Trials in British-Occupied 129 Germany: Women as Perpetrators, Women as Victims 6. The Einsatzgruppen Trial at Nuremberg: Did Anyone Have 159 to Follow Orders to Kill? 7. The Jewish Kapo Trials in Israel: Is There a Place for the 195 Law in the Gray Zone? 8. The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial: The Germans Trying 227 Germans under German Law 9. The Trial of Feodor Fedorenko: Treblinka Relived in 247 a Florida Courtroom 10. The Trial of Anthony Sawoniuk at the Old Bailey: 275 The Holocaust in the British Courtroom Conclusion 303 Notes 313 Bibliography 355 Index 361 About the Authors

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates the enormous impact of the Holocaust by analyzing ten underreported Nazi trialsIn the wake of the Second World War, how were the Allies to respond to the enormous crime of the Holocaust? Even in an ideal world, it would have been impossible to bring all the perpetrators to trial. Nevertheless, an attempt was made to prosecute some. This book uncovers ten forgotten trials of the Holocaust, selected from the many Nazi trials that have taken place over the course of the last seven decades. It showcases how perpetrators of the Holocaust were dealt with in courtrooms around the world, revealing how different legal systems responded to the horrors of the Holocaust. The book provides a graphic picture of the genocidal campaign against the Jews through eyewitness testimony and incriminating documents and traces how the public memory of the Holocaust was formed over time.Trade Review"An invaluable book about significant trials conducted by the United States, certain European countries, and Israel against German government officials, military officers, and non-German collaborators for the Holocaust. It will educate, expand, and enlighten every reader's knowledge about one of the most tragic events in human history, perpetrated by one of the most culturally, medically, scientifically, artistically and politically advanced civilizations the world has ever known. Bazyler and Tuerkheimer have made a most significant contribution to the study of the Holocaust, and the world's response." -- Stan Levy,Founding National Director of the Bet Tzedek Holocaust Survivors Justice Network"Brings to the reader important trials that have fallen beneath the general publics radar. The authors, as both academics and practicing lawyers, bring a fresh and incisive approach to these trials, dissecting the strategies of the trial lawyers as well as the decision-making by the presiding judges. They manage, in each of these trials, to focus on the defendants, the victims, and the players in the courtroom scene. They present a vivid picture of the holocaust in operation, an essential undertaking as the survivor generation decreases in number. This book is worth reading for anyone interested in trials and for anyone interested in the Holocaust, and it is compelling reading for anyone interested in both." -- Robert M. Morgenthau,former District Attorney, New York County"Few of these trials are widely remembered. Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust, by legal scholars Michael J. Bazyler and Frank M. Tuerkheimer, is thus especially welcome. . . . Bazyler and Tuerkheimer have made a good start." -- Richard J. Evans * New York Review of Books *"For too long, lawyers and legal academics have relegated the Shoah to the margins and shadows of legal discourse. The killing of six million European Jews has either been treated as an extraordinary and unique circumstance beyond law, or more recently, as little more than a precursor event to the development of international criminal law. Michael J. Bazyler and Frank M. Tuerkheimer have rendered an invaluable service to legal practice and scholarship by bringing the Holocaust to the center of the legal profession and discipline. This extraordinary book, by examining the intersections and encounters between law and the Shoah in a number of jurisdictions, across a significant time period, makes it impossible for us to ignore or forget the intimate and complex relationship between law and the Holocaust." -- David Fraser,author of Law After Auschwitz: Towards a Jurisprudence of the Holocaust"Provides lucid summaries of ten lesser known trials of participants in Nazi war crimes, along with acute and balanced conclusions about the legal legitimacy and legacy of each proceeding. The authors bring fresh and illuminating perspectives to a matter of urgent concern: understanding how the claims of law and justice should interact in the aftermath of atrocity." -- Peter Hayes,Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor of History, Northwestern University"Takes the reader on a journey across nearly six decades, seven countries, and ten different judicial settings to examine a wide variety of ways in which attempts were made to bring Holocaust perpetrators to justice. The authors do not shy from assessing the strengths, weaknesses, and difficulties of each trial and the degree to which justice was served. An important contribution to the history of the judicial aftermath of the Holocaust." -- Christopher R. Browning,author of Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp"Provides an exceptionally clear, fair-minded, and helpful discussion of the efforts of far-flung jurists to bring perpetrators of the Holocaust to justice. Bazyler and Tuerkheimer bring impressive scholarly acumen and hardboiled lawyerly insight to the task of assessing the successes and shortcomings of trials that sought to submit the most unspeakable crimes to legal judgment." -- Lawrence Douglas,James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought, Amherst College"Michael J. Bazyler, a law professor, and Frank M. Tuerkheimer, a trial lawyer, have written an indispensable account of ten & forgotten trials of the Holocaust." * Jewish Book Council *"Despite having to take into account as well the differences among ten legal and political systems, Bazyler and Tuerkheimer have demonstrated clear threads in court room evidence that help us better understand the Holocaust." * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Kharkov Trial of 1943: The First Trial of the Holocaust? 2. The Trial of Pierre Laval: Criminal Collaborator or Patriot? 45 3. The Dachau Trial under U.S. Army Jurisdiction 75 4. The Trial of Amon Goth in Postwar Poland: 101 Poland's "Nuremberg" 5. The Hamburg Ravensbruck Trials in British-Occupied 129 Germany: Women as Perpetrators, Women as Victims 6. The Einsatzgruppen Trial at Nuremberg: Did Anyone Have 159 to Follow Orders to Kill? 7. The Jewish Kapo Trials in Israel: Is There a Place for the 195 Law in the Gray Zone? 8. The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial: The Germans Trying 227 Germans under German Law 9. The Trial of Feodor Fedorenko: Treblinka Relived in 247 a Florida Courtroom 10. The Trial of Anthony Sawoniuk at the Old Bailey: 275 The Holocaust in the British Courtroom Conclusion 303 Notes 313 Bibliography 355 Index 361 About the Authors

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Book SynopsisThe Soul of Things is a deeply reflective, evocative, and beautifully written memoir. A bestseller in Hungary, where it has been compared to the works of Primo Levi, it marks an important female contribution to the canon of Holocaust writing.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction The Storyteller of the Shoah: Éva Fahidi and Anima Rerum Éva Kovács and Judith Szapor Preface to the Hungarian Edition: ... because we cannot go on otherwise György Gábor Preface to the German Edition Götz Aly Anima Rerum: The Soul of Things The Münchmüle Camp Fritz Brinkmann-Frisch List of the 1,000 Women taken from Auschwitz to Allendorf, August 13, 1944

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Book SynopsisIn Justice behind the Iron Curtain, Gabriel N. Finder and Alexander V. Prusin examine Poland’s role in prosecuting Nazi German criminals during the first decade and a half of the postwar era. Finder and Prusin contend that the Polish trials of Nazi war criminals were a pragmatic political response to postwar Polish society and Poles’ cravings for vengeance against German Nazis. Although characterized by numerous inconsistencies, Poland’s prosecutions of Nazis exhibited a fair degree of due process and resembled similar proceedings in Western democratic counties. The authors examine reactions to the trials among Poles and Jews. Although Polish-Jewish relations were uneasy in the wake of the extremely brutal German wartime occupation of Poland, postwar Polish prosecutions of German Nazis placed emphasis on the fate of Jews during the Holocaust. Justice behind the Iron Curtain is the first work to approach communist Poland’Trade Review"Finder and Prusin have prepared a solid, well-documented, and objective book that deserves praise and recognition." -- Łukasz Jasiński * H-Net Reviews (H-Poland) *"Gabriel N. Finder and Alexander V. Prusin’s Justice Behind the Iron Curtain is an exhaustively researched volume that makes an important contribution to the scholarship on postwar justice and Holocaust-related trials." -- Natalie Belsky, University of Minnesota Duluth * Austrian Studies Newsmagazine, vol 31, no 1, Spring '19 *"This is a wonderfull successful work…A judicious, well-informed presentation of complicated issues. Highly recommended." -- T. Flynn, College of the Holy Cross * Choice Magazine *"Impressively researched and rich in detail, Justice behind the Iron Curtain is the first comprehensive study of Nazi trials in postwar Poland, and as such constitutes a very important contribution to scholarship on the history of war crimes prosecution. The book provides fascinating insights into how the trials created an institutional space (perhaps the only one in postwar Poland) in which the specific suffering of the Jewish people was acknowledged – even though this ran counter to the official communist memory of the war, which erased the distinction between Jewish and non-Jewish victims of Nazism." -- Franziska Exeler, University of Cambridge, Free University Berlin * Slavic Review *In recent years sedulous efforts have been made to develop jurisprudence for dealing with genocide, mass killing, and crimes against humanity. Thus, all the more reason to welcome this well-researched and often disturbing book by Gabriel Finder and Alexander Prusin, who tragically died before its publication. It is, in fact, two separate studies. The first is an account of the "war crimes trials," which took place in Poland between 1946 and 1959. These began with the trials of alleged collaborators under the "August Decree" (Sierpni6wka) promulgated in August 1944, by the Polish Committee of National Liberation (Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego -PKWN) and ended with the trial of Erich Koch, Reichskommisar of Ukraine and the chief of the Bialystok administration, in 1958-1959. The second topic is an extensive and valuable discussion of what we can learn from these trials about the perpetrators of the crimes, which adds significantly to what we know about their motives. -- Antony Polonsky, International Institute for Holocaust Research (Jerusalem) * Yad Vashem Studies *"Finder and Prusin’s study consists [of a] meticulous reconstruction of Polish efforts to confront in its courts the complex legacies of the Nazi occupation of Poland." -- Michael Meng * Journal of Modern History, Vol. 92, No. 2 *"This important and clearly written study is a must [read] for anyone interested in postwar trials, the interplay between history and memory, and the influence of domestic and international politics on justice in postwar Poland." -- Mark Mengerink, Lamar University * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *"Historians studying modern Europe rarely are in a position to write about a genuinely new topic, one with little existing literature. Finder and Prusin have done just that. This means that their study will be foundational for all future scholarship, not just on Polish trials, but on the history of Nazi trials in Europe more broadly." -- Devin O. Pendas, Boston College * Central European History *"Much has been written on the evolution of international criminal justice from the Nuremberg trials to the establishment of the International Criminal Court, and even more on the Holocaust and its aftermath. In Justice behind the Iron Curtain, however, Gabriel N. Finder and Alexander V. Prusin fill a significant gap in both these literatures in their comprehensive survey and analysis of postwar prosecutions of Nazi war criminals in communist Poland." -- Barbara J. Falk, Canadian Forces College, Royal Military College of Canada * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 A Restive Society Demands Swift Justice Chapter 2 The Poles at Nuremberg Chapter 3 The Supreme National Tribunal, 1946–1948 Chapter 4 Himmler’s Men on Trial, 1948–1953 Chapter 5 Jews, Poles, and Justice Chapter 6 History and Politics in the Last Trials, 1954–1959 Epilogue

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Book SynopsisAn exceptional document of an extraordinary life, The Soul of Things is the memoir of Holocaust survivor Éva Fahidi. Since the memoir was first published in Hungarian in 2004 under the title Anima Rerum, Fahidi has become a household name in Hungary and in Germany. Featured in countless interviews and several prize-winning documentary films, at the age of ninety-five she is a frequent speaker at Holocaust commemorations in Hungary, Germany, and elsewhere. The Soul of Things combines a rare depiction of upper-middle-class Jewish life in pre-war Hungary with the chronicle of a woman’s deportation and survival in the camps. Fahidi is a gifted writer with a unique voice, full of wisdom, humanity, and flashes of dark humour. With an unsentimental, philosophical perspective, she recounts her journey from the Great Hungarian Plain to the extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the forced labour camp of Münchmühle, and back. The English edition inTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction The Storyteller of the Shoah: Éva Fahidi and Anima Rerum Éva Kovács and Judith Szapor Preface to the Hungarian Edition: ... because we cannot go on otherwise György Gábor Preface to the German Edition Götz Aly Anima Rerum: The Soul of Things The Münchmüle Camp Fritz Brinkmann-Frisch List of the 1,000 Women taken from Auschwitz to Allendorf, August 13, 1944

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Book SynopsisThe Second World War was filled with many terrible crimes, such as genocide, forced migration and labour, human-made famine, forced sterilizations, and dispossession, that occurred on an unprecedented scale. Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War examines victim groups constructed in the twentieth century in the aftermath of these experiences. The collection explores the concept of authenticity through an examination of victims’ histories and the construction of victimhood in Europe and East Asia. Chapters consider how notions of historical authenticity influence the self-identification and public recognition of a given social group, the tensions arising from individual and group experiences of victimhood, and the resulting, sometimes divergent, interpretation of historical events. Drawing from case studies on topics including the Holocaust, the siege of Leningrad, American air raids on Japan, and forced migrations from Eastern Europe, Table of ContentsIntroduction: Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War Randall Hansen, Achim Saupe, Andreas Wirsching, and Daqing Yang Part One: Methodological and Theoretical Approaches 1. From Hero’s Death to Suffering Victim? Reflections on the “Post-Heroic” Culture of Memory Andreas Wirsching 2. Victim Identities in the Public Sphere: Patterns of Shaping, Ranking, and Reassessment Michael Schwartz Part Two: Victims of Genocide and Massacres 3. Eastern European Shoah Victims and the Problem of Group Identity Ingo Loose 4. History on Trial before the Social Welfare Courts: Holocaust Survivors, German Judges, and the Struggle for “Ghetto Pensions” Jürgen Zarusky 5. Construction of Victimhood in Contemporary China: Toward a Post-Heroic Representation of History? Daqing Yang 6. “The Death of Manila” in World War II and Its Postwar Commemoration Satoshi Nakano Part Three: War Victims 7. Air Raid Victims in Japan’s Collective Remembrance of War James Orr 8. Between Memory and Policy: How Societies of Leningrad Siege Survivors Remember the War Tatiana Voronina 9. Victims or Perpetrators or Both? How History Textbooks and History Teachers in Post-Soviet Lithuania Remember Postwar Partisans Barbara Christophe Part Four: Victims of Forced Migration and Deportations 10. In Search of a Usable Memory: Politics of History and the Commemoration Day for German Forced Migrants after World War II Mathias Beer 11. Of Italian Perpetrators and Victims: Forced Migration in the Italian-Yugoslavian Border Region (1922–54) Tobias Hof 12. Defiant Victims: The Deportation of the Chechens and the Memory of Stalinism in the Soviet Union and Russia Moritz Florin 13. East Asian Victimhood Goes to Paris: A Consideration of WWII-Related Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Nominations to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Project Lori Watt

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Book SynopsisContributions by Georgiana Banita, Colin Beineke, Harriet Earle, Ariela Freedman, Liza Futerman, Shawn Gilmore, Sarah Hamblin, Cara Koehler, Lee Konstantinou, Patrick Lawrence, Philip Smith, and Kent Worcester A carefully curated, wide-ranging edited volume tracing Art Spiegelman''s exceptional trajectory from underground rebellion to mainstream success, Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art Spiegelman reveals his key role in the rise of comics as an art form and of the cartoonist as artist. The collection grapples with Spiegelman''s astonishing versatility, from his irreverent underground strips, influential avant-garde magazine RAW, the expressionist style of the comics classic Maus, the illustrations to the Jazz Age poem The Wild Party, and his response to the September 11 terrorist attacks to his iconic cover art for the New Yorker, his children''s books, and various cross-media collaborations. The twelve chapters cut across Spiegelman''s career

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Book SynopsisIn 1949, as Cold War tensions in Europe mounted, French intellectual and former Buchenwald inmate David Rousset called upon fellow concentration camp survivors to denounce the Soviet Gulag as a hallucinatory repetition of Nazi Germany''s most terrible crime. In Political Survivors, Emma Kuby tells the riveting story of what followed his appeal, as prominent members of the wartime Resistance from throughout Western Europe united to campaign against the continued existence of inhumane internment systems around the world. The International Commission against the Concentration Camp Regime brought together those originally deported for acts of anti-Nazi political activity who believed that their unlikely survival incurred a duty to bear witness for other victims. Over the course of the next decade, these pioneering activists crusaded to expose political imprisonment, forced labor, and other crimes against humanity in Franco''s Spain, Maoist China, French Algeria, and beyond. <Trade ReviewA meticulous, nuanced look inside the deeply fraught postwar political theater in France and Europe. * Kirkus Reviews *A penetrating look at an arcane subject. Deeply researched and fluently written. * The Chicago Tribune *Political Survivors is a first-rate work of intellectual history that offers keen insights into French political history, the memories of World War II, the Resistance, and the Holocaust, and the operation of international organizations. * H-Diplo *Quite simply, this book is a tour de force. * David H. Pinkney Prize citation, Society for French Historical Studies *[T]he greatest achievement of Kuby's book lies in its masterful analysis of the ethics of who gets to shape the narrative of historical memory... This alone makes it a compelling read for historians of any field and transforms this into a book that will have profound impact on our field for many years to come. * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction 1. Survivors as Witnesses in Postwar France 2. David Rousset's Cold War Call to Arms 3. Forging the International Commission 4. Nuremberg Restaged: The Soviet Univers Concentrationnaire on Trial 5. Into the Labyrinth of Franco's Prisons 6. Triumphs and Tensions on the Global Stage 7. From Auschwitz to Algeria: The Limits of Memory Epilogue Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA new afterword to this edition, The Duty to RememberBut What? tackles difficult issues of guilt and innocence on the individual and societal levels. Zygmunt Bauman explores the silences found in debates about the Holocaust, and asks what the historical facts of the Holocaust tell us about the hidden capacities of present-day life. He finds great danger in such phenomena as the seductiveness of martyrdom; going to extremes in the name of safety; the insidious effects of tragic memory; and efficient, scientific implementation of the death penalty. Bauman writes, Once the problem of the guilt of the Holocaust perpetrators has been by and large settled... the one big remaining question is the innocence of all the restnot the least the innocence of ourselves.Among the conditions that made the mass extermination of the Holocaust possible, according to Bauman, the most decisive factor was modernity itself. Bauman''s provocative interpretation counters the tendency to reduce the Holocaust

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Book SynopsisIn Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps, ghettos, and killing fields of Eastern Europe. Westermann draws on a vast range of newly unearthed material to explore how alcohol consumption served as a literal and metaphorical lubricant for mass murder. It facilitated performative masculinity, expressly linked to physical or sexual violence. Such inebriated exhibitions extended from meetings of top Nazi officials to the rank and file, celebrating at the grave sites of their victims. Westermann argues that, contrary to the common misconception of the SS and police as stone-cold killers, they were, in fact, intoxicated with the act of murder itself. Drunk on Genocide highlights the intersections of masculinity, drinking ritual, sexual violence, and mass murderTrade ReviewEdward B. Westermann has now produced a book that pays tribute to all strands of research while, at the same time, highlighting an element that will need to be included in all future considerations: the stimulation of the murderers through alcohol. * American Historical Review *Drunk on Genocide is an essential read, and one that offers considerable insights into the intimate relationship between ritualized intoxication, cults of masculinity, ideological antisemitism, and the mass murders in the bloodlands of the east. * EuropeNow *Westermann uses a wide variety of primary sources ranging from photos to diaries to interviews to understand the behaviors and beliefs of perpetrators. It is a remarkably challenging book to read. But a necessary one. * New Books Network *[Ed Westermann's work provides an invaluable insight into the mindset and mentality of the everyday executioners of the racial war in the east. * German History *Drawing on several decades of research into Nazi police battalions and comparative genocide, Westermann employs social, anthropological, and gender theories to create a framework that effectively analyzes the relationship between alcohol and mass murder. * Journal of Military History *Drunk on Genocide is a important and terryfing book that tackles a persistent question in the study of the Holocaust and World War II: how was it possible that the Germans killed so many people and behaved so brutally in the Soviet territory they invaded and occupied? * Slavic Review *Westermann's work is incredibly thoroughly researched with a rich amount of survivor testimony that gives voice to the victims. Drunk on Genocide is a compelling work with a well-researched argument. * The Middle Ground Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Alcohol and the Masculine Ideal 2. Rituals of Humiliation 3. Taking Trophies and Hunting Jews 4. Alcohol and Sexual Violence 5. Celebrating Murder 6. Alcohol, Auxiliaries, and Mass Murder 7. Alcohol and the German Army Conclusion

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