The Holocaust Books
Brill Schoningh Euthanasie Und Holocaust: Kontinuitäten,
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£63.20
Brill U Schoningh Polizei Und Holocaust: Eine Generation Nach
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£23.65
Brill U Schoningh Das Kz-Bordell: Sexuelle Zwangsarbeit in
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£47.40
Brill U Schoningh Lodz: Geschichte Einer Multikulturellen
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£56.05
Lit Verlag Teaching the Holocaust by Inquiry: Foreword by
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£33.75
Brill Fink Bilder Trotz Allem
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£44.91
S. Hirzel Verlag Letzte Wege in Die Freiheit: Sechs
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£21.60
Tectum Blicke Auf Auschwitz:: Deutsch-Spanische
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£23.65
V&R unipress GmbH Die SS nach 1945: Entschuldungsnarrative,
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£40.84
V&R Unipress Gegen Das Verstummen: Texthermeneutische
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£53.59
V&R unipress GmbH Postmodernizing the Holocaust: A Comparative
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£35.99
Marion Kummerow Trouble Brewing
£11.31
Steidl Publishers Through the Lens of Faith - Auschwitz
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£18.00
Hartmann Books Nebenan Auschwitz
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£25.20
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Eichmann en Jerusalén / Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
£22.87
Damiani Max Hirshfeld: Sweet Noise: Love in Wartime
Book SynopsisSweet Noise. Love in Wartime is a book of photographs and words about the Holocaust, a subject difficult to grasp and almost impossible to document. It is also a story of love in a time of war, told in a clear voice using compelling black-and-white photographs and simple, evocative language to build a framework around this pivotal moment in history. Hirshfeld's parents, Polish Jews who survived Auschwitz, raised him in a small city in Alabama, where life in the South of the 1950s and 1960s was quiet and, on the surface, mostly idyllic. But lurking under the surface was a remarkable yet tension-filled history that fully revealed itself only after he matured and had a family of his own. He knew the outer perimeters of his parent’s story: the challenges of being Jewish in a place that increasingly alienated them, their individual trajectories as they moved through adulthood and their chance meeting in a Nazi-created ghetto where they fell in love. But it took a trip to Poland with his mother in 1993 (and the discovery in 2005 of hundreds of post-war letters between his parents) to more fully acquaint me with the depths of their tragedies and the exceptional love story that began in 1943, sustaining them through the war. Though Sweet Noise features events that began seventy-five years ago, the material is eerily timely. As Eastern Europe grapples with this horrific legacy, and many countries are reassessing their responses to mass immigration, those in a position to bear witness need a supportive environment wherein art and language serve to remind the world what can occur when hatred and the concept of ethnic cleansing are given free rein.
£32.00
The University of Chicago Press By Words Alone The Holocaust in Literature
Book SynopsisThe creative literature that evolved from the Holocaust constitutes an unprecedented encounter between art and life. Those who wrote about the Holocaust were forced to extend the limits of their imaginations to encompass unspeakably violent extremes of human behavior. The result, as Ezrahi shows in By Words Alone, is a body of literature that transcends national and cultural boundaries and shares a spectrum of attitudes toward the concentration camps and the world beyond, toward the past and the future.
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Other Peoples Troubles Phoenix Poets
Book SynopsisThe son of a Holocaust survivor, Jason Sommer writes of troubles which unfold in history and in the making of personality; of self and other; and of wakefulness and sleep. The poetic voice is one who emerges from the Holocaust, telling the stories of those who suffered.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Walter Benjamins Grave
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£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Walter Benjamins Grave
Book SynopsisIn September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt to escape the Nazis. This is an essay about his cemetery, eyewitness accounts of Benjamin's border travails, and the circumstances of his demise.Trade Review"If Hunter S. Thompson had been trained by Boas in anthropology, Engels in economics, and Arendt in philosophy, he might write something like Taussig." - Publishers Weekly "Blending fact and fiction, ethnographic observation, archival history, literary theory and memoir, his books read more like beatnik novels than somber analyses of other cultures." - New York Times"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Space and Time under Persecution
Book SynopsisA new history of how the Nazi era upended German-Jewish experiences of space and time from eminent historian Guy Miron. In Space and Time under Persecution, Guy Miron considers how social exclusion, economic decline, physical relocation, and, later, forced evictions, labor, and deportation under Nazi rule forever changed German Jews' experience of space and time. Facing ever-mounting restrictions, German Jews reimagined their worldsdevising new relationships to traditional and personal space, new interpretations of their histories, and even new calendars to measure their days. For Miron, these tactics reveal a Jewish community's attachment to German bourgeois life as well as their defiant resilience under Nazi persecution.Trade Review“With a nimble weave of excerpts from diaries, memoirs, and correspondence, Miron adumbrates the tormented strategies devised by German Jews to cope with their incremental exclusion from the public space and civil religion of Nazi Germany. A veritable scholarly tour de force, Space and Time under Persecution also enriches the theoretical literature on the construction and experience of time and space.” -- Paul Mendes-Flohr, University of Chicago“A highly original and sophisticated argument about the perception of space and time among Jews in Nazi Germany. Drawing on personal memoirs and diaries, Miron shows how German Jews adapted (painfully) to the limits on their public (and later, private) spaces and to the Nazification of their daily and annual rhythms. Miron shows not only how the Nazis limited and destroyed Jewish space and time, but also how Jews used their own agency and imagination to reconfigure as much space and time as they could.” -- Marion Kaplan, New York University“Through meticulous documentation of a series of case studies, and with superb attention to detail, Miron conjures an unforgettable picture of the shrinking mental universe of German Jews after 1933. This is a powerful work of scholarship that would be of great interest to scholars of modern German history, Jewish history, and the history and sociology of time and space.” -- Yair Mintzker, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1. Space Chapter 1. Public Space Chapter 2. Jewish Places and Spaces Chapter 3. At Home Part 2. Time Chapter 4. The Circle of Time Chapter 5. The Flow of Time Chapter 6. Turning toward the Past Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Space and Time under Persecution
Book SynopsisTrade Review“With a nimble weave of excerpts from diaries, memoirs, and correspondence, Miron adumbrates the tormented strategies devised by German Jews to cope with their incremental exclusion from the public space and civil religion of Nazi Germany. A veritable scholarly tour de force, Space and Time under Persecution also enriches the theoretical literature on the construction and experience of time and space.” -- Paul Mendes-Flohr, University of Chicago“A highly original and sophisticated argument about the perception of space and time among Jews in Nazi Germany. Drawing on personal memoirs and diaries, Miron shows how German Jews adapted (painfully) to the limits on their public (and later, private) spaces and to the Nazification of their daily and annual rhythms. Miron shows not only how the Nazis limited and destroyed Jewish space and time, but also how Jews used their own agency and imagination to reconfigure as much space and time as they could.” -- Marion Kaplan, New York University“Through meticulous documentation of a series of case studies, and with superb attention to detail, Miron conjures an unforgettable picture of the shrinking mental universe of German Jews after 1933. This is a powerful work of scholarship that would be of great interest to scholars of modern German history, Jewish history, and the history and sociology of time and space.” -- Yair Mintzker, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1. Space Chapter 1. Public Space Chapter 2. Jewish Places and Spaces Chapter 3. At Home Part 2. Time Chapter 4. The Circle of Time Chapter 5. The Flow of Time Chapter 6. Turning toward the Past Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£25.00
The University of Chicago Press Remembering to Forget Holocaust Memory Through
Book SynopsisRevealing the unique significance of the concentration camp photographs, this text shows how they have become the basis of our memory of the Holocaust and how they have affected our presentations and perceptions of contemporary history's subsequent atrocities.
£23.00
Columbia University Press The Duplicity of Philosophys Shadow
Book SynopsisElliot R. Wolfson intervenes in the debate over Martin Heidegger and Nazism from a unique perspective, as a scholar of Jewish mysticism and philosophy who has been profoundly influenced by Heidegger’s work. He reveals crucial aspects of Heidegger’s thinking that betray an affinity with dimensions of Jewish thought.Trade ReviewIf Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe was right when stating that the ‘secret of Nazism is buried in Heidegger,’ we must face down this troubled legacy. Elliot Wolfson leads us to the uncomfortable zone of true thinking. Without condemnation but on the razor’s edge of incessant probing, the work calls up a recasting of political engagement. Mere condemnation or strategies of avoidance can no longer cut it. -- Avital Ronell, New York UniversityThe Duplicity of Philosophy's Shadow represents one of the most sustained and creative engagements with the legacy of Heidegger. Rather than marginalize Heidegger and ostracize those who engage his writings, Wolfson instead opts for critical engagement and intellectual honesty. His poetic wrestling is simultaneously exciting and timely. -- Aaron W. Hughes, University of RochesterIn The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow, Wolfson gathers together immense amounts of documentation and compresses it into a lively, readable analysis that combines scope and comprehensiveness with incisive focus on the core issues. He has the talent and the patience to deliver the painstaking labor necessary to provide such syntheses. Wolfson’s scholarly expertise deeply impresses this work with his own signature. -- William Franke, Vanderbilt UniversityNeither apologetic nor denunciatory, Wolfson masterfully summons the lucidity of a philosopher, the erudition of a scholar, and the profoundness of a mystic to face one of modern thought’s most disturbing riddles: how could Heidegger bring so much philosophical light and evince so much political darkness? In this powerful, crepuscular display, Heideggerian and kabbalistic insights on the ambiguity of truth converge to elucidate the philosopher’s very darkness as the shadow of his philosophical radiance. -- Elad Lapidot, Free University of BerlinThis rich scholarly treatment of Heidegger's social, political, and philosophical life adds a voice to Heideggerian studies that should not be missed....Highly recommended. * Choice *Elliot Wolfson’s The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other is, in my opinion, the most sophisticated engagement with the 'problem' of Martin Heidegger’s Nazism in the English language * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsPreface: Calculating Heidegger’s Miscalculation1. Barbaric Enchantment: From Existential Ontology to Abyssal Meontology2. Nomadism, Homelessness, and the Obfuscation of Being3. Jewish Time and the Historiographical Eclipse of Historical Destiny4. Being’s Tragedy: Heidegger’s Silence and the Ring of Solitude5. Political Disavowal: Truth and Concealing the Unconcealment6. Heidegger, Balaam, and the Duplicity of Philosophy’s ShadowAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex
£79.20
Columbia University Press Desolation and Enlightenment
Book SynopsisIn this major intellectual history, Ira Katznelson examines the works of Hannah Arendt, Robert Dahl, Richard Hofstadter, Karl Polanyi, and others. In light of their epoch’s calamities, these intellectuals insisted that the tradition of Enlightenment thought required a new realism, a good deal of renovation, and much recommitment.Trade ReviewIn this masterful excursion into the history of ideas, Katznelson explores how a 'reconstructionist' generation of political scholars has since attempted to make sense of these dark times and rethink the bases of political theory and liberal community... Although the book was written largely before the attacks of September 11, 2001, it speaks powerfully to today's struggles to reconcile liberal values with a new threat of violence. -- G. John Ikenberry * Foreign Affairs *Katznelson's book remarkably (re)describes post-World War II American political studies... This is an important book. -- Maurice Meilleur * Antioch Review *[An] eloquent volume. . . . Timely and important. * Perspectives on Politics *Desolation and Enlightenment is a passionate call to arms.... [Katznelson's] book provides inspiration and considerable guidance for anyone who believes in the social responsibilities of intellectuals. * Ethics & International Affairs *Rich and thoughtful. . . . Contemporary political scientists have produced no better or more profound account of twentieth-century Western political theory. * International Studies Review *Katznelson's book is an excellent study of one episode in the history of social sciences, an episode that is by no means interesting only to historians. Historical institutionalism is still a very productive approach and Desolation and Enlightenment helps to identify the strengths and limitations of this approach that may be hidden to its contemporary advocates and critics... Katznelson's work shows how real the dilemmas of the political studies enlightenment group are to all of us. * European Journal of Social Theory *Katznelson's book is well written, a clear yet crystalline, multifaceted examination of the plight of Enlightenment thought. * Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments1. Beyond Common Measure2. The Origins of Dark Times3. A Seminar on the State4. A New ObjectivityIndex
£71.25
Columbia University Press Desolation and Enlightenment
Book SynopsisIn this major intellectual history, Ira Katznelson examines the works of Hannah Arendt, Robert Dahl, Richard Hofstadter, Karl Polanyi, and others. In light of their epoch’s calamities, these intellectuals insisted that the tradition of Enlightenment thought required a new realism, a good deal of renovation, and much recommitment.Trade ReviewIn this masterful excursion into the history of ideas, Katznelson explores how a 'reconstructionist' generation of political scholars has since attempted to make sense of these dark times and rethink the bases of political theory and liberal community... Although the book was written largely before the attacks of September 11, 2001, it speaks powerfully to today's struggles to reconcile liberal values with a new threat of violence. -- G. John Ikenberry * Foreign Affairs *Katznelson's book remarkably (re)describes post-World War II American political studies... This is an important book. -- Maurice Meilleur * Antioch Review *[An] eloquent volume. . . . Timely and important. * Perspectives on Politics *Desolation and Enlightenment is a passionate call to arms.... [Katznelson's] book provides inspiration and considerable guidance for anyone who believes in the social responsibilities of intellectuals. * Ethics & International Affairs *Rich and thoughtful. . . . Contemporary political scientists have produced no better or more profound account of twentieth-century Western political theory. * International Studies Review *Katznelson's book is an excellent study of one episode in the history of social sciences, an episode that is by no means interesting only to historians. Historical institutionalism is still a very productive approach and Desolation and Enlightenment helps to identify the strengths and limitations of this approach that may be hidden to its contemporary advocates and critics... Katznelson's work shows how real the dilemmas of the political studies enlightenment group are to all of us. * European Journal of Social Theory *Katznelson's book is well written, a clear yet crystalline, multifaceted examination of the plight of Enlightenment thought. * Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments1. Beyond Common Measure2. The Origins of Dark Times3. A Seminar on the State4. A New ObjectivityIndex
£22.50
University of Illinois Press Unwanted Beauty
Book SynopsisControversial questions about beauty in artistic depictions of the HolocaustTrade Review"Unwanted Beauty is a significant contribution not only for scholars of the Holocaust, but also for those interested in the interplay between aesthetics, witnessing, and historical violence."--Women's Study Quarterly
£27.90
University of Illinois Press Escape to Manila
Book SynopsisA harrowing account of Jewish refugees in the PhilippinesTrade Review“The book’s riveting centerpiece combines military history and personal horror to describe the Battle of Manila. . . . Burned out of their homes, Jews roam the streets with other civilians, seeking safe havens, crouching to dodge bullets, hiding in holes dug in the ground covered with corrugated roofing. . . . Escape to Manila . . . enables readers to know and feel the fires.”--Hadassah Magazine"Ephraim has constructed a fascinating narrative from a rich mix of archival research, oral history, and autobiographical memoir. He offers us a stirring portrait of a community of resourceful, resilient, courageous, and compassionate individuals."--Michael Shapiro, director, Program in Jewish Culture and Society, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign"The vignettes and first person histories make for very interesting reading."--Jewish Book WorldTable of ContentsForeword by Stanley Karnow; Acknowledgments; Prologue 1. Destination: The Philippines; 2. Unexpected Arrivals; 3. The First Wave of Refugees; 4. Manila Hears about Kristallnacht; 5. Mindanao: A Plan for Jewish Settlement; 6. Establishing a Life; 7. What Does the Future Hold for Us?; 8. Carving Out a Niche; 9. War; 10. Occupation; 11. Can We Hold Out?; 12. The Final Months of Occupation; 13. The Battle; 14. Reestablishing the Community; 15. Leaving the Philippines Notes; Index; Illustrations
£16.14
Indiana University Press Teaching Learning and the Holocaust
Book SynopsisClassroom study of the Holocaust evokes strong emotions in teachers and students. This book assesses challenges and approaches to teaching about the Holocaust through history and literature.Trade ReviewIt is indeed a pleasure to recommend this book to professors who want to learn how to initiate and design a Holocaust course at the community college level. * The Jewish Voice *Howard Tinberg and Ronald Weisberger have given us a wonderful book that documents their journey in teaching the Shoah through merging the perspectives of literature and history. . . I recommend this book to all colleagues who wish to have a close look at how collaborative teaching can be a successful, albeit challenging enterprise.June 2014 * Asian Journal Scholarship Teaching and Learning *Tinberg and Weisberger's pedagogical journey is a refreshing account of ways to model methods and habits, to encourage students to transfer those methods and habits to new domains and situations, to create opportunities for integrative learning, to foster both the affective and critical response, and to teach and write with colleagues outside one's discipline and area of expertise. Their humble approach is inspiring, their research exemplary. * Impact *This is a book that I will unhesitatingly recommend to all teachers interested in pushing disciplinary boundaries and enhancing students' learning perspective through integrating multiple viewpoints. This is a journey worth taking. 2.2 2014 * Teaching and Learning Inquiry *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Contexts2. Discipline3. What We Knew and When We Knew It 4. Bystanders and Agents5. Witnesses6. Trauma7. Reclaiming FaithAppendix A: Course SyllabusAppendix B: Reading Journal TemplateAppendix C: Critical Research ProjectAppendix D: Midterm and Final Exams
£56.10
Indiana University Press The Phenomenon of Anne Frank
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Reasonable, elegant, sometimes provocative, essential."—Ian Buruma, author of Year Zero: A History of 1945"Everything you want to know about the Anne Frank phenomenon, about the perception and the effect of the text, whose writer became an icon, is said within these pages."—Wolfgang Benz, author of A Concise History of the Third ReichTable of ContentsAuthor's NoteTranslator's NoteIntroduction1. Frankfurt – Amsterdam – Bergen-Belsen2. Anne Frank: From Diary to Het Achterhuis/Das Tagebuch/Le Journal/The Diary 3. Anne Frank on Broadway: The Play 4. Anne Frank in Hollywood: The Movie5. Anne's Diary under Attack6. Who Owns Anne Frank?7. A Girl's Book or Literature?8. How to Continue in the 21st Century?Bibliography
£8.99
Indiana University Press The Phenomenon of Anne Frank
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Reasonable, elegant, sometimes provocative, essential."—Ian Buruma, author of Year Zero: A History of 1945"Everything you want to know about the Anne Frank phenomenon, about the perception and the effect of the text, whose writer became an icon, is said within these pages."—Wolfgang Benz, author of A Concise History of the Third ReichTable of ContentsAuthor's NoteTranslator's NoteIntroduction1. Frankfurt – Amsterdam – Bergen-Belsen2. Anne Frank: From Diary to Het Achterhuis/Das Tagebuch/Le Journal/The Diary 3. Anne Frank on Broadway: The Play 4. Anne Frank in Hollywood: The Movie5. Anne's Diary under Attack6. Who Owns Anne Frank?7. A Girl's Book or Literature?8. How to Continue in the 21st Century?Bibliography
£52.70
Indiana University Press Holocaust Public Memory in Postcommunist Romania
Book SynopsisTrade Review Holocaust Public Memory in Postcommunist Romania . . . is an excellent and timely addition to European historiography. The book consists of eight chapters, most of them written by scholars affiliated with the Elie Wiesel Institute. It not only shows the challenges faced in remembering Romania's involvement in the Holocaust, but provides an excellent comparative analysis with other countries in the region. * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsList of AbbreviationsMemory under Construction: Introductory Remarks / Alexandru FlorianPart I: Competing Memories and Historical Obfuscation1. Ethnocentric Mindscapes and Mnemonic Myopia / Ana Bărbulescu2. Post-Communist Romania's Leading Public Intellectuals and the Holocaust / George Voicu3. Law, Justice, and Holocaust Memory in Romania / Alexandru Climescu4. Romania: Neither "Fleishig" nor "Milchig": A Comparative Study / Michael Shafir5. "Wanting-not-to-Know" about the Holocaust in Romania: A Wind of Change? / Simon GeissbühlerPart II: National Heroes, Outstanding Intellectuals or Holocaust Perpetrators?6. Mircea Vulcănescu, a Controversial Case: Outstanding Intellectual or War Criminal? / Alexandru Florian7. Ion Antonescu's Image in Post-Communist Historiography / Marius Cazan8. Rethinking Perpetrators, Bystanders, Helpers/Rescuers, and Victims: A Case Study of Students' Perceptions / Adina BabeşIndex
£59.50
Indiana University Press Holocaust Public Memory in Postcommunist Romania
Book SynopsisTrade Review Holocaust Public Memory in Postcommunist Romania . . . is an excellent and timely addition to European historiography. The book consists of eight chapters, most of them written by scholars affiliated with the Elie Wiesel Institute. It not only shows the challenges faced in remembering Romania's involvement in the Holocaust, but provides an excellent comparative analysis with other countries in the region. * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsList of AbbreviationsMemory under Construction: Introductory Remarks / Alexandru FlorianPart I: Competing Memories and Historical Obfuscation1. Ethnocentric Mindscapes and Mnemonic Myopia / Ana Bărbulescu2. Post-Communist Romania's Leading Public Intellectuals and the Holocaust / George Voicu3. Law, Justice, and Holocaust Memory in Romania / Alexandru Climescu4. Romania: Neither "Fleishig" nor "Milchig": A Comparative Study / Michael Shafir5. "Wanting-not-to-Know" about the Holocaust in Romania: A Wind of Change? / Simon GeissbühlerPart II: National Heroes, Outstanding Intellectuals or Holocaust Perpetrators?6. Mircea Vulcănescu, a Controversial Case: Outstanding Intellectual or War Criminal? / Alexandru Florian7. Ion Antonescu's Image in Post-Communist Historiography / Marius Cazan8. Rethinking Perpetrators, Bystanders, Helpers/Rescuers, and Victims: A Case Study of Students' Perceptions / Adina BabeşIndex
£25.19
Indiana University Press The Holocausts Jewish Calendars
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn addition to the richness of the calendrical artifacts surveyed, Rosen provides an evidence based argument against the erasure of Jewish time. Applying a fresh integration of historiography and hermeneutics, he forges a path that leads beyond Holocaust time by delving into its devestating details. * the Lehrhaus *The Holocaust's Jewish Calendars offers a major contribution to the understanding of the life Jews had to experience not only as human beings cast into dreadful circumstances, but most sensibly as people trying to survive under inhuman situations, chiefly designed to eradicate their own Jewishness. [Rosen's] book is a major opus to add to the library of any reader. -- Sylvie Anne Goldberg, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris * Slavic Review *Rosen's important and very readable study raises and answers an array of significant questions concerning the concept and meaning of Jewish time as well as the value of a calendar's insistence on normalcy, regularity, and order during the hellishly disordered time of the Shoah. * the arts fuse *Rosen's work is the most comprehensive to date treatment of these precious artifacts of the Holocaust's Jewish efforts to maintain religious observations and identity and should serve scholars and lay people interested in accessing this aspect of Jewish martyrology. * Choice *The Holocaust's Jewish Calendars is a masterpiece that helps us grasp one of the most fundamental traditional modes of spiritual resistance—the tracking of Jewish time in the ghettos, camps and in hiding. * Jewish Action *The book offers a comprehensive overview as well as a detailed insight into everyday Jewish life during the Holocaust as well as into the techniques of survival and the preservation of one's own Jewish identity through the special access to the Jewish time. Rosen illustrates how the victims opposed the destruction of Jewish life when they wrote the Jewish calendar, and thus makes a fundamental contribution to it. -- Christin Zühlke * H-Soz-Kult *The Holocaust's Jewish Calendars is deeply researched, eloquently written, and filled with surprises. Rosen has unearthed a treasure trove of calendrical works, mute survivors to historical calamity. He analyzes each artifact in terms of its materiality, its creator, its calendrical calculations, and its Holocaust setting. By means of the calendars, Rosen explores philosophically the meaning of tracking time under such extreme conditions. The Holocaust's Jewish Calendars is an original and profound contribution to the study of Jewish culture during the Holocaust. -- Elisheva Carlebach * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Time at the End of a Jewish CenturyPart II: Tracking Time in the New Jewish Century: Calendars in Wartime GhettosPart III: Concentration Camps, Endless Time, and Jewish TimePart IV: While in Hiding: Calendar Consciousness on the Edge of DestructionPart V: At the Top of the Page: Calendar Dates in Holocaust DiariesPart VI: The Holocaust as a Revolution in Jewish Time: The Lubavitcher Rebbes' Wartime Calendar BookEpilogueAppendix 1: Inventory of Wartime Jewish CalendarsAppendix 2: Months of the Jewish Calendar Year, with Their Holidays and Fast DaysAppendix 3: English-Language Rendering of Rabbi Scheiner CalendarGlossarySelective BibliographyIndex
£25.19
Indiana University Press The Secret Diary of Arnold Douwes
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Secret Diary of Arnold Douwes provides a rare portrait of what it meant to resist day in and day out and is as close to a record of the psychology of a resister as one can get. It is an important addition to the few books about the Netherlands during the war available in English. -- Dr. Megan Korman * Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies *Table of ContentsPrologue: Mordecai PaldielEditors' PrefaceAcknowledgmentsTranslator's NotesContextual Introduction The DiaryAftermathEpilogueGlossaryBiographical Sketches
£45.00
Indiana University Press It Is Impossible to Remain Silent
Book SynopsisDiscover Elie Wiesel and Jorge Semprún in conversation. These two men, whose destinies were unparalleled, had probably crossed paths—without ever meeting—in the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald in 1945. Both men offer riveting testimony and pay vibrant homage to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust.Table of ContentsPublisher's NoteIntroduction by Radu IoanidGallery of PhotographsIt Is Impossible to Remain SilentNotesSelected Bibliographies of Jorge Semprún and Elie Wiesel
£11.02
Indiana University Press Ideology and the Rationality of Domination Nazi
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The annexed areas in Poland became the scene of many machinations in which experts of the "race state" and representative of a traditional Germanization policy confronted each other. Gerhard Wolf pursues the tortuous and inconsistent implementation of National Socialist politics down to the local level, thereby giving much needed clarity to the complex debate about the significant of ideology of National Socialist rule."—Geoff Eley, author of Nazism as Fascism"Gerhard Wolf's excellent study illustrates how much National Socialist "ethnic politics" was shaped by traditional notions of belonging and exclusion. In the implementation of Nazi ideology, Wolf shows that politics could be both practical and principled. Here it becomes clear how a dynamic understanding of borders, which separated those who belonged from others who did not, could become a decisive instrument for the consolidation of German rule. This rule was legitimized and shaped by what we now call false nationalization."—Donald Bloxham, author of The Final Solution: A Genocide"Gerhard Wolf's real contribution is to pick apart the highly conflictual and polycratic process by which Nazi policies were formed, tracking both the long-running turf war between the Reich Interior Ministry and the SS Race and Resettlement Office in Berlin. Well-researched, clear, convincing, with real intellectual verve."—Nicholas Stargardt, author of The German War: A Nation under Arms, 1939-1945Table of ContentsPreface to the English EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1. The German Quest for Polish Land2. War: Projecting the "Lebensraum" Dystopia onto Poland3. Consolidating Power: Reinforcing the German Occupation Regime through Population Policy4. "Lebensraum": Population Policy in the Tug of War Between Racial Hubris and the Rational Demands of Power5. Labor Deployment: Population Policy as a Tool of Exploitation and AssimilationConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex of personsIndex
£48.60
Indiana University Press Echoes of Trauma and Shame in German Families
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This complex story is engagingly told through highly readable life histories and analysis, and provides much to think about concerning the aftermath of traumatic histories."—Francesca Merlan, Australian National University"Jakob brilliantly traces the transgenerational impact of World War II, and the trauma and shame of Germany's dark past that still haunts individuals and scars families. A searing inquiry into the multilayered meanings of public rituals, social memories and emotional suffering of a generation—painfully struggling with the inheritance of war and loss. An outstanding achievement."—Assa Doron, Australian National UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Between 'Mastering' and 'Silencing' the Past –Public Commemorations of World War II2. "Why do you Have to Dig Around in the Past?" –Conversations About World War II in German Families3. Better 'Sick' Than 'Strange' –The Kriegsenkel Movement and the Desire to Legitimize Suffering4. "Hooray, I am a Kriegsenkel!" –Suffering and Liberation in the Age of Therapy5. The Invisible Wounds of War –Kriegsenkel Accounts of Transgenerational Transmission6. The Losses and the Shame of War –Absence in Kriegsenkel NarrativesConclusionAppendix –Interview Structure and Sample QuestionsBibliographyIndex
£59.40
Indiana University Press The Betrayal of the Humanities
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This collection of valuable studies shows how the German universities—already home to many conservative-nationalist and anti-democratic faculty as well as nazified students before 1933—welcomed the onset of the Nazi dictatorship and pursued a course of "self-coordination" in purging Jews and political opponents. Within the humanities, a core of Nazi activists in major disciplines such as theology, law, archeology, and history certainly exercised an inordinate influence over hiring, funding, and curriculum, but numerous opportunists and fellow travelers even in smaller departments adopted Nazi racial rhetoric and sought to demonstrate their "relevance" and "usefulness" to the Nazi cause. In the post-war period a few of the most egregious academic Nazis served as useful scapegoats, but the vast majority of faculty viewed themselves as the double victims of Hitler's dictatorship and war on the one hand and the Allies' unfair denazification on the other. But at least, in a second act of self-coordination, they sanitized their vitas, forgot their past complicities, and began to act like the non-Nazi, apolitical scholars they now claimed to have been all along."—Christopher R. Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"This is a sobering study of how quickly and completely German universities and the humanities were corrupted by Nazi ideology and policies during the National Socialist era. Led by some of the most prominent scholars in their fields, entire scholarly disciplines conformed to Nazi rule, leading to the broader perversion of humanistic values, standards and ethics throughout Germany. Thoughtful and profound, the essays in this volume explore this history as a warning for our own times."—Victoria J. Barnett, Director (retired), Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust, U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum"As I read this rich collection, I found myself learning at nearly every turn, even from many of the footnotes. These are serious, well-researched and well-written studies; their authors draw upon both primary sources (not infrequently unpublished archival items) and secondary sources in the original languages to construct their arguments. Taken together, this is a compelling collection of serious essays from which readers, whether specialists or non-specialists, will learn much. The essays complement each other and even build on each other."—Saul M. Olyan, Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies, Brown University"With Jewish students under assault on campuses across the United States, The Betrayal of the Humanities demonstrates the role academicians can play in "validating" antisemitism and producing research to underpin genocidal worldviews."—The Times of Israel"The Betrayal of the Humanities is a testimony to what can go wrong if humanistic education is separated from ethics, from moral imperatives, and from the face of one's neighbor. We would do well to heed its warning."—Kathleen Gallagher Elkins, Review of Biblical LiteratureTable of ContentsList of ContributorsList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsPrefaceI. Nazi Germany and the Historical Humanities1. The History of the Humanities in the Third Reich, by Alan E. Steinweis2. The "Orient" and "Us", by Suzanne L. Marchand3. Luther Scholars, Jews, and Judaism during the Third Reich, by Christopher J. Probst4. Gerhard von Rad's Struggle against the Nazification of the Old Testament, by Bernard M. Levinson5. Jewish Studies in the Service of Nazi Ideology, by Anders Gerdmar6. Hermann Grapow, Egyptology, and National Socialist Initiatives for the Humanities, by Thomas Schneider7. German Assyriology, by Johannes Renger8. National Socialist Archaeology as a Faustian Bargain, by Bettina ArnoldII. Law, Music, and Philosophy in the Third Reich9. Hitler's Willing Law Professors, by Oren Gross10. The Music of Arnold Schoenberg, by Michael Cherlin11. Political Philosophy, by Emmanuel FayeIII. Nazi Germany and Beyond12. The Nazification and Denazification of the University of Göttingen, by Robert P. Ericksen13. The University of Göttingen and Its Postwar Response to Persecuted Colleagues, by Aniko Szabo14. Italian Fascism, by Franklin Hugh Adler15. Is There an Anti-Jewish Bias in Today's University?, by Alvin H. RosenfeldIndex of Scholars and Related Academic Figures ExaminedIndex of Paramilitary and Military Roles HeldIndex of Universities and Academic Institutions Examined Index of AuthorsSubject Index
£66.60
Indiana University Press Germans against Germans
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The history of German Jews in the Nazi period is generally told as a history of deprivation of rights, expulsion, and exile, while the history of their destruction is subsumed under the history of European Jewry. Moshe Zimmermann is to be commended as the first to have rendered their distinct path to destruction a subject of portrayal: Their obstructed perception of their designated fate on the basis of their habitual legal comprehension of reality, their decency and their acceptance."—Dan Diner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem"To this brilliant new synthesis on the history of the Jews in the Third Reich, Moshe Zimmermann has brought a lifetime of learning on modern German and Jewish history. Germans against Germans explores the expectations and desires of contemporaries as they lived them, without knowing how history would turn up. This is essential reading for scholars in the field."—Alon Confino, University of Massachusetts AmherstTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations1. The Decline of German Jewry2. The Tabula Rasa Policy3. "Days of Grace" in a Mousetrap4. From Quarantine to Depatriation5. Lost in the East6. Mischlinge, "Divers," and Virtual Jews7. "The Jews Were Our Misfortune"8. Jews as Germans Abroad9. Looking Back, Looking AheadBibliographyIndex
£45.00
Indiana University Press Night without End
Book SynopsisThree million Polish Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, wiping out nearly 98 percent of the Jewish population who had lived and thrived there for generations. Night Without End tells the stories of their resistance, suffering, and death in unflinching, horrific detail. Based on meticulous research from across Poland, it concludes that those who were responsible for so many deaths included a not insignificant number of Polish villagers and townspeople who aided the Germans in locating and slaughtering Jews.When these findings were first published in a Polish edition in 2018, a storm of protest and lawsuits erupted from Holocaust deniers and from people who claimed the research was falsified and smeared the national character of the Polish people.Night Without End, translated and published for the first time in English in association with Yad Vashem, presents the critical facts, significant findings, and the unmistakable evidence of Polish collaboration iTrade Review"Professors Grabowski and Engelking belong to the small group of founders of the New Polish School of Research on the Holocaust. Their work has revolutionized historiography of the Holocaust in Poland and beyond. Night without End shows well the meticulous quality of their scholarship and the openness with which they confront the subject of complicity of the local population in the persecution of Jews during the German occupation of Poland."—Jan T Gross, Princeton University (Emeritus)"Night Without End marks a turning point in scholarship on the Holocaust in Poland. Drilling down on the role of the local population in the Judeocide, Night Without End sheds bright light on key questions long taboo in Polish society and elided by historians. Bold and innovative, it opens our lens on Jews' struggle for survival through the trajectories of individuals, showing how their Polish, Ukrainian, and Belorussian neighbors greatly increased or substantially diminished their chances of survival."—Debórah Dwork, The Graduate Center—City University of New York"This remarkable volume includes a series of detailed local studies of the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland by a group of outstanding scholars. Altogether, Night without End provides an unprecedented reconstruction of the daily reality of genocide, meticulously demonstrating the extent of local Polish participation in hunting down and murdering their Jewish neighbors. No amount of apologetic arguments will be able to dispel the well-documented findings of this volume or dispute the general conclusion that numerous victims might have survived but for the greed and callousness of the surrounding Polish society. This shocking book is an indispensable addition to the scholarship on the Holocaust and to our understanding of the social dynamic of genocide."—Omer Bartov, author of Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz
£70.20
Indiana University Press Flight and Concealment
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With this book Susanna Schrafstetter has written one of the most thoughtful, well-researched, and genuinely comparative historical studies on rescue that I know of, and one of the only ones to reflect on restitution, postwar trajectories, and the place in postwar Germany for the survivors. Not only is it one of the most nuanced historical studies to appear on rescue in Germany, it is an essential read for historians of the topic in any national context."—Mark Roseman, Distinguished Professor of History, Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University"This is a rather remarkable book. It stands out from the hundreds of other books published every year on the Holocaust by focusing on a group of victims who have been somewhat neglected. There exists already some literature on hidden Jews in Berlin, but we have no study as detailed as this on another major German city like Munich. In terms of the critical analysis of all her sources and the existing literature, this study could stand as a model for undergraduate or graduate teaching. Beyond that, the searing stories of suffering, and the touching tales of assistance offered, make this a book that will appeal to a broader non-academic audience as well."—Geoffrey J. Giles, University of Florida"This extraordinarily careful exploration of a hitherto neglected aspect of German and Jewish history during World War II and the in the decades after the war will be of great interest to both scholars and those with a general interest Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, the occupation period, and the development of the Federal Republic of German since 1949."—Gerhard L. Weinberg, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsMapsIntroduction1. Under Nazi Rule: Jews in Munich, 1933–19412. The Deportations3. Early Escapes: Fall 1941–Summer 19424. The Conclusion of the Mass Deportations in 1943: A Second Wave of Escapes?5. Evading the Final Deportations in February 19456. Dangers and Failed Escapes, 1941–1945: Denunciation, Exploitation, Discovery, Illness7. Specific Groups of Helpers and Those They Helped: Hidden Children and Church Aid8. To and from Munich: Regional, National, and Transnational Escape Routes and Connections9. After 1945: Reconstruction or New Beginning?10. Postwar Encounters11. Compensation for Surviving U-Boats, Their Family Members, and Their Helpers12. U-Boats and Their Helpers in Postwar German SocietyConclusionBibliographyIndex
£63.00
Indiana University Press Flight and Concealment
Book SynopsisBetween ten thousand and twelve thousand Jews tried to escape Nazi genocide by going into hiding. With the help of Jewish and non-Jewish relatives, friends, or people completely unknown to them, these U-boats, as they came to be known, dared to lead a life underground. Flight and Concealment brings to light their hidden stories. Deftly weaving together personal accounts with a broader comparative look at the experiences of Jews throughout Germany, historian Susanna Schrafstetter tells the story of the Jews in Munich and Upper Bavaria who fled deportation by going underground. Archival sources and interviews with survivors and with the Germans who aided or exploited them reveal a complex, often intimate story of hope, greed, and sometimes betrayal. Flight and Concealment shows the options and strategies for survival of those in hiding and their helpers, and discusses the ways in which some Germans enriched themselves at the expense of the refugees.Trade Review"With this book Susanna Schrafstetter has written one of the most thoughtful, well-researched, and genuinely comparative historical studies on rescue that I know of, and one of the only ones to reflect on restitution, postwar trajectories, and the place in postwar Germany for the survivors. Not only is it one of the most nuanced historical studies to appear on rescue in Germany, it is an essential read for historians of the topic in any national context."—Mark Roseman, Distinguished Professor of History, Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University"This is a rather remarkable book. It stands out from the hundreds of other books published every year on the Holocaust by focusing on a group of victims who have been somewhat neglected. There exists already some literature on hidden Jews in Berlin, but we have no study as detailed as this on another major German city like Munich. In terms of the critical analysis of all her sources and the existing literature, this study could stand as a model for undergraduate or graduate teaching. Beyond that, the searing stories of suffering, and the touching tales of assistance offered, make this a book that will appeal to a broader non-academic audience as well."—Geoffrey J. Giles, University of Florida"This extraordinarily careful exploration of a hitherto neglected aspect of German and Jewish history during World War II and the in the decades after the war will be of great interest to both scholars and those with a general interest Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, the occupation period, and the development of the Federal Republic of German since 1949."—Gerhard L. Weinberg, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsMapsIntroduction1. Under Nazi Rule: Jews in Munich, 1933–19412. The Deportations3. Early Escapes: Fall 1941–Summer 19424. The Conclusion of the Mass Deportations in 1943: A Second Wave of Escapes?5. Evading the Final Deportations in February 19456. Dangers and Failed Escapes, 1941–1945: Denunciation, Exploitation, Discovery, Illness7. Specific Groups of Helpers and Those They Helped: Hidden Children and Church Aid8. To and from Munich: Regional, National, and Transnational Escape Routes and Connections9. After 1945: Reconstruction or New Beginning?10. Postwar Encounters11. Compensation for Surviving U-Boats, Their Family Members, and Their Helpers12. U-Boats and Their Helpers in Postwar German SocietyConclusionBibliographyIndex
£35.10
Indiana University Press Uprooting the Diaspora
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this deeply-researched and original book, Sarah Cramsey shows how the redefinition of Jewish identity after the Holocaust was part of an ethnic revolution that transformed Eastern Europe's shattered moral and political landscape. This is an important contribution to the history of European Jews, the creation of postwar Eastern Europe, and the complex relationship between nationality and statehood."—James J. Sheehan, Stanford University"In this impressive and carefully argued book, Sarah Cramsey tackles some very large themes - territory and belonging, nationalism, diaspora, minority rights, the Jewish Question - and proposes the intriguing new formulation of 'empirical Zionism' to help untangle the complexities of the 'ethnic revolution' that took place in central and eastern Europe from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s. In doing so, she deftly combines analysis of institutions, ideologies, politics and people, and opens up welcome new perspectives on familiar issues that remain of great interest to historians."—David Rechter, University of Oxford"Ninety percent of Polish Jews perished in the Holocaust, but some 300,000 Polish-Jewish survivors remained the fourth biggest group of the European diaspora. This book tells the fascinating history of their mass exodus in the postwar years and perceptively analyzes its peculiar factors, which had developed in the previous decade: from the recent Jewish traumas to considerations of Jewish, Czechoslovak and Polish leaders, to radical changes of ideas on belonging, minority rights and desirable shape of polities."—Dariusz Stola, Polish Academy of Sciences"This superbly narrated book is essential reading for anyone interested in diaspora and nation-building in modern times. Uprooting the Diaspora follows Jewish and non-Jewish politicians, diplomats, thinkers, and writers in their quest for ideas on how to "resolve the tensions" surrounding Jewish national and spatial belonging in 20th century Poland and Czechoslovakia. The book explores rootedness, diaspora, and Zionism in the tragic decade of 1936-1946 with empathy, insight, and originality. Powerfully argued and meticulously researched, it's intellectual history at its best!"—Anna Cichopek-Gajraj, Arizona State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Rooted: A Contingent Look at Polish Jews in the Late 1930s2. In Exile: Debating Postwar Plans during an Uprooted Present, 1940–19433. Negating This Diaspora: The World Jewish Congress and the Prioritization of Postwar Life in Palestine, 1942–19444. Uncertain Citizenship: Anxious Postwar Returns to East Central Europe, 1945–19465. Uprooted: The "Miraculous" Remnant of Polish Jews Who Survived in the Soviet Union and Their Postwar MigrationsConclusion: The Postwar Life Is ElsewhereNotesBibliographyIndex
£67.15
Indiana University Press Uprooting the Diaspora
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this deeply-researched and original book, Sarah Cramsey shows how the redefinition of Jewish identity after the Holocaust was part of an ethnic revolution that transformed Eastern Europe's shattered moral and political landscape. This is an important contribution to the history of European Jews, the creation of postwar Eastern Europe, and the complex relationship between nationality and statehood."—James J. Sheehan, Stanford University"In this impressive and carefully argued book, Sarah Cramsey tackles some very large themes - territory and belonging, nationalism, diaspora, minority rights, the Jewish Question - and proposes the intriguing new formulation of 'empirical Zionism' to help untangle the complexities of the 'ethnic revolution' that took place in central and eastern Europe from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s. In doing so, she deftly combines analysis of institutions, ideologies, politics and people, and opens up welcome new perspectives on familiar issues that remain of great interest to historians."—David Rechter, University of Oxford"Ninety percent of Polish Jews perished in the Holocaust, but some 300,000 Polish-Jewish survivors remained the fourth biggest group of the European diaspora. This book tells the fascinating history of their mass exodus in the postwar years and perceptively analyzes its peculiar factors, which had developed in the previous decade: from the recent Jewish traumas to considerations of Jewish, Czechoslovak and Polish leaders, to radical changes of ideas on belonging, minority rights and desirable shape of polities."—Dariusz Stola, Polish Academy of Sciences"This superbly narrated book is essential reading for anyone interested in diaspora and nation-building in modern times. Uprooting the Diaspora follows Jewish and non-Jewish politicians, diplomats, thinkers, and writers in their quest for ideas on how to "resolve the tensions" surrounding Jewish national and spatial belonging in 20th century Poland and Czechoslovakia. The book explores rootedness, diaspora, and Zionism in the tragic decade of 1936-1946 with empathy, insight, and originality. Powerfully argued and meticulously researched, it's intellectual history at its best!"—Anna Cichopek-Gajraj, Arizona State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Rooted: A Contingent Look at Polish Jews in the Late 1930s2. In Exile: Debating Postwar Plans during an Uprooted Present, 1940–19433. Negating This Diaspora: The World Jewish Congress and the Prioritization of Postwar Life in Palestine, 1942–19444. Uncertain Citizenship: Anxious Postwar Returns to East Central Europe, 1945–19465. Uprooted: The "Miraculous" Remnant of Polish Jews Who Survived in the Soviet Union and Their Postwar MigrationsConclusion: The Postwar Life Is ElsewhereNotesBibliographyIndex
£35.10
Indiana University Press Notes from the Valley of Slaughter
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The diary of Dr. Aharon Pick is a historical document of extraordinary importance. A talented physician and intellectual who was steeped in Jewish culture documented the events pertaining to the Jews in the city of Šiauliai during the Holocaust, from the Soviet regime through the ghetto years under Nazi German occupation. Pick meticulously chronicled and analyzed the events, enlightening his "future readers" with profound insights into human nature and the essence of humanity exposed in what he termed the "Valley of Slaughter." The diary sheds light on numerous aspects of Holocaust research: the history of medicine in extreme situations, the Jewish society's reaction pattern to gradual destruction, ethical dilemmas, philosophical reflections on the unique nature of the Holocaust, and more. Pick's first-person testimony of coping with the Germans' decrees to murder fetuses in their mothers' wombs is singularly powerful, making the diary essential reading."—Miriam Offer, Western Galilee College"In this important account — part memoir, part diary — of Jewish life under Bolshevik and then Nazi occupation in Siauliai, Lithuania, the English-language reader gains access for the first time to the observations and reflections of Aharon Pick, a medical doctor active in Jewish communal affairs and politics. Pick wrote with a journalist's flair for an important story and a humanist's care for the individual. His searing record offers scholars fresh insights into Jews' experience of the Holocaust in Lithuania and will be suitable for classroom use as well."—Alexandra Garbarini, Charles R. Keller Professor of History, Williams College"Dr. Aharon Pick's memoir and diary open a new window into the wartime history of Šiauliai, the site of one of Eastern Europe's lesser-known ghettos. Superbly edited and introduced by Gabriel Laufer and Andrew Cassel, this deeply personal account, suffused with a spirit of intense anguish, forces us to confront the day-to-day reality of the persecution and death which the Nazis and local collaborators inflicted on one of Lithuania's oldest and most prosperous Jewish communities."—Saulius Sužiedėlis, Millersville University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsRetrieving a Voice from the GhettoNotes on the TextPart A1. Before the Bolsheviks' Arrival (A Preface)2. The Blosheviks in Lithuania3. My Son's Admission to the Lithuanian University4. On the Eve of War5. The Start of the War6. The Germans Enter ŠiauliaiPart B7. Afflictions8. The EdictsPart C9. The Rules of the GhettoPart D10. From My DiaryNotesReferencesIndex
£59.50
Indiana University Press Notes from the Valley of Slaughter
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The diary of Dr. Aharon Pick is a historical document of extraordinary importance. A talented physician and intellectual who was steeped in Jewish culture documented the events pertaining to the Jews in the city of Šiauliai during the Holocaust, from the Soviet regime through the ghetto years under Nazi German occupation. Pick meticulously chronicled and analyzed the events, enlightening his "future readers" with profound insights into human nature and the essence of humanity exposed in what he termed the "Valley of Slaughter." The diary sheds light on numerous aspects of Holocaust research: the history of medicine in extreme situations, the Jewish society's reaction pattern to gradual destruction, ethical dilemmas, philosophical reflections on the unique nature of the Holocaust, and more. Pick's first-person testimony of coping with the Germans' decrees to murder fetuses in their mothers' wombs is singularly powerful, making the diary essential reading."—Miriam Offer, Western Galilee College"In this important account — part memoir, part diary — of Jewish life under Bolshevik and then Nazi occupation in Siauliai, Lithuania, the English-language reader gains access for the first time to the observations and reflections of Aharon Pick, a medical doctor active in Jewish communal affairs and politics. Pick wrote with a journalist's flair for an important story and a humanist's care for the individual. His searing record offers scholars fresh insights into Jews' experience of the Holocaust in Lithuania and will be suitable for classroom use as well."—Alexandra Garbarini, Charles R. Keller Professor of History, Williams College"Dr. Aharon Pick's memoir and diary open a new window into the wartime history of Šiauliai, the site of one of Eastern Europe's lesser-known ghettos. Superbly edited and introduced by Gabriel Laufer and Andrew Cassel, this deeply personal account, suffused with a spirit of intense anguish, forces us to confront the day-to-day reality of the persecution and death which the Nazis and local collaborators inflicted on one of Lithuania's oldest and most prosperous Jewish communities."—Saulius Sužiedėlis, Millersville University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsRetrieving a Voice from the GhettoNotes on the TextPart A1. Before the Bolsheviks' Arrival (A Preface)2. The Blosheviks in Lithuania3. My Son's Admission to the Lithuanian University4. On the Eve of War5. The Start of the War6. The Germans Enter ŠiauliaiPart B7. Afflictions8. The EdictsPart C9. The Rules of the GhettoPart D10. From My DiaryNotesReferencesIndex
£25.19
Indiana University Press Moshes Children
Book SynopsisMoshe's Children presents the inspiring story of Moshe Zeiri, a Jewish carpenter responsible for rescuing hundreds of Jewish refugee children who had survived the Final Solution. During the liberation of Italy, Zeiri, a volunteer in the British Army in Italy, assumed responsibility for and vowed to help around seven hundred Polish, Hungarian, Russian, and Romanian children. Although these orphans of the Shoah had been deprived of a family, a home, and a language and were irreparably robbed of their past, they were able to rebuild their lives through Zeiri's efforts as he founded the largest Jewish orphanage in postwar Europe in Selvino, Italy, where he began to rehabilitate the orphans and to teach them how to become citizens of the new nation of Israel. Moshe's Children also explores Zeiri's own story from birth in a shtetl to his upbringing and Zionist education, his journey to the Land of Israel, and his work there before the war. With narrative verve and scholarly acumen, Sergio Trade Review"Sergio Luzzatto has unearthed a moving story and is telling it masterfully: how after 1945 some 700 young children who survived the Holocaust found refuge in northern Italy and ultimately emigrated to Israel. It is a dramatic story, beautifully and importantly told!"—Alon Confino, author of A World Without Jews"Moshe's Children is a charming work. Written by an Italian scholar and now wonderfully translated into English, it tells the story of a children's house established by a a Polish volunteer in the British Army in Italy that served to offer a haven to orphans of the Holocaust, to rehabilitate them and prepare them for a life in Palestine, which after 1948 became Israel. Moshe's Children presents Zionism in a manner virtually unseen today, as the hope for the transformation of the Jewish people and the role that Zionism played in the rehabilitation of Holocaust survivors."—Michael Berenbaum, American Jewish UniversityTable of ContentsMain CharactersAcknowledgmentsMapsThe Black Box1. Far from Where2. Yehudit3. Close to Where4. Anabasis5. The Drowned and the Saved6. The House of Mussolini7. A Republic of Orphans8. Life after Death9. Kibbutz Selvino?10. In Israel's Waters11. The Road to Jerusalem12. If You SurviveGlossaryNotesIndex
£56.10
