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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
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Indiana University Press After the Roundup
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Indiana University Press Home after Fascism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Anna Koch has written a fascinating and differentiated account of the German and Italian Jews who returned to their homelands after World War Two. Closely based on memoirs and archival documentation, Home after Fascism lucidly explores how German and Italian Jews had to redefine notions of home in order to find a place in the countries which had persecuted them."—Bill Niven, Professor Emeritus of Contemporary German History, Nottingham Trent University"At once expansive and intimate, Home After Fascism provides a meticulously researched history of the difficulties Jews faced as they tried to recreate their lives immediately after the Holocaust in the very countries that persecuted them. Grounding the study within the distinct memory cultures of Italy, East Germany, and West Germany, Anna Koch's brilliant book is a must read, interrogating how fresh memories of murder and betrayal clashed with individuals' sense of attachment to a language, a place, and a homeland."—Marion Kaplan, author Hitler's Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal"What is the meaning of home for people whose homes have been violently destroyed? Using a wealth of primary sources including letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral testimonies, Anna Koch draws on cutting-edge research in memory studies and the history of emotions to bring to life in vivid detail how German and Italian Jews renegotiated the meaning of 'home' in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Carefully researched and brilliantly argued, Home After Fascism is an important and compelling work."—Emiliano Perra, author of Conflicts of Memory: The Reception of Holocaust FilmsTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Returning Home?2. Entangled Memories3. Reclaiming Home4. BelongingConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£62.90
Indiana University Press Home after Fascism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Anna Koch has written a fascinating and differentiated account of the German and Italian Jews who returned to their homelands after World War Two. Closely based on memoirs and archival documentation, Home after Fascism lucidly explores how German and Italian Jews had to redefine notions of home in order to find a place in the countries which had persecuted them."—Bill Niven, Professor Emeritus of Contemporary German History, Nottingham Trent University"At once expansive and intimate, Home After Fascism provides a meticulously researched history of the difficulties Jews faced as they tried to recreate their lives immediately after the Holocaust in the very countries that persecuted them. Grounding the study within the distinct memory cultures of Italy, East Germany, and West Germany, Anna Koch's brilliant book is a must read, interrogating how fresh memories of murder and betrayal clashed with individuals' sense of attachment to a language, a place, and a homeland."—Marion Kaplan, author Hitler's Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal"What is the meaning of home for people whose homes have been violently destroyed? Using a wealth of primary sources including letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral testimonies, Anna Koch draws on cutting-edge research in memory studies and the history of emotions to bring to life in vivid detail how German and Italian Jews renegotiated the meaning of 'home' in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Carefully researched and brilliantly argued, Home After Fascism is an important and compelling work."—Emiliano Perra, author of Conflicts of Memory: The Reception of Holocaust FilmsTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Returning Home?2. Entangled Memories3. Reclaiming Home4. BelongingConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£34.20
Indiana University Press The Belarusian Shtetl
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In a world of AI and fake news, it is refreshing to come across two sophisticated scholars who still remember that they are studying real people. They successfully brought together in one volume expert academic analyses of small-town (shtetl) life written by some of the best researchers from Eastern Europe together with a collection of exceptional primary sources. There is nothing like it. The Belarusian Shtetl is hard to put down and it is impossible to stop thinking about it."—Shaul Stampfer, Sandrow Professor of Soviet and East European Jewish History (emeritus), Hebrew University of JerusalemTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Geographical Names, Transliteration and MapsMapsIntroduction, by Samuel D. Kassow, Irina Kopchenova, and Mikhail KrutikovHistory, Folklore, Ethnography1. Between Mestechko and Shtetl: Ethnicity and Religion in Belarusian Small Towns, 1800s–1930s, by Ina Sorkina2. The Soviet Belarusian Shtetl: Between Tradition and Modernization in the 1920s and 1930s, by Arkadi Zeltser3. Days of Remembrance for Jews of the Russo-Belarusian Borderlands, by Svetlana Amosova4. Why Hitler Didn't Like the Jews: The Folklore Version of the Reasons Behind the Holocaust, by Andrei B. MorozHlybokaye: Memories of the Shtetl5. The Death of the Shtetl of Hlybokaye through the Eyes of Its Teenagers, by Julia Bernstein6. A Family between the Ghetto and Red Army Partisans: Two Holocaust Testimonies from Hlybokaye, by Julia Bernstein7. Daily Life in the Hlybokaye Ghetto: Photographs from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, by Irina Kopchenova8. Memory on Demand: The Jewish Past in Today's Hlybokaye, by Mikhail Lurie and Natalia SavinaAppendixThe Shtetl of Zhaludok: A Memoir, by Miron MordukhvichIndex
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Indiana University Press The Belarusian Shtetl
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In a world of AI and fake news, it is refreshing to come across two sophisticated scholars who still remember that they are studying real people. They successfully brought together in one volume expert academic analyses of small-town (shtetl) life written by some of the best researchers from Eastern Europe together with a collection of exceptional primary sources. There is nothing like it. The Belarusian Shtetl is hard to put down and it is impossible to stop thinking about it."—Shaul Stampfer, Sandrow Professor of Soviet and East European Jewish History (emeritus), Hebrew University of JerusalemTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Geographical Names, Transliteration and MapsMapsIntroduction, by Samuel D. Kassow, Irina Kopchenova, and Mikhail KrutikovHistory, Folklore, Ethnography1. Between Mestechko and Shtetl: Ethnicity and Religion in Belarusian Small Towns, 1800s–1930s, by Ina Sorkina2. The Soviet Belarusian Shtetl: Between Tradition and Modernization in the 1920s and 1930s, by Arkadi Zeltser3. Days of Remembrance for Jews of the Russo-Belarusian Borderlands, by Svetlana Amosova4. Why Hitler Didn't Like the Jews: The Folklore Version of the Reasons Behind the Holocaust, by Andrei B. MorozHlybokaye: Memories of the Shtetl5. The Death of the Shtetl of Hlybokaye through the Eyes of Its Teenagers, by Julia Bernstein6. A Family between the Ghetto and Red Army Partisans: Two Holocaust Testimonies from Hlybokaye, by Julia Bernstein7. Daily Life in the Hlybokaye Ghetto: Photographs from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, by Irina Kopchenova8. Memory on Demand: The Jewish Past in Today's Hlybokaye, by Mikhail Lurie and Natalia SavinaAppendixThe Shtetl of Zhaludok: A Memoir, by Miron MordukhvichIndex
£31.50
Indiana University Press Violent Space The Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Given its focus on the Warsaw ghetto, Violent Space builds on a number of existing works in important ways through its focus on the topography of the ghetto and the spatial practices of ghetto inhabitants. As the author notes, the destruction of the ghetto means that these places and spaces are no longer present in the contemporary city and the author follows Engelking and Leociak in excavating them and bringing them to life. Here the book will appeal to the general reader given the importance of the Warsaw ghetto within the story of the Holocaust. But Violent Space does more than focus on Warsaw alone and so will be of wider interest to scholars of ghettos and the nascent field of Holocaust geographies, environmental histories of the Holocaust and genocide space."—Tim Cole, author of Holocaust Landscapes"This is an excellent book. It is well-written, clear, original, and relevant. The author never fails, when discussing these experiences, to frame the conversation around the concept of space, with pertinent examples and quite deep reflections on the personal geographies and stories of the witnesses."—Alberto Giordano, editor of Geographies of the Holocaust"Anja Nowak's Violent Space marks the advent of mature spatial scholarship on the Holocaust. This astonishingly insightful book is infused with Nowak's profound understanding of Nazi spatial theory and practice and how their violent implementation in the Warsaw ghetto created extreme, constantly changing spaces of human suffering. Nowak's lucid prose makes every chapter coherent and powerful, while building a sustained interpretation of ghettoized space as violence, and violence as a flood of spatial acts. Violent Space is spatial history at its very best: deeply geographical, seeking at every turn to determine how spatial ideas became specific actions that affected Jews' lives. A brilliant contribution to Holocaust studies that spatial scholars across the humanities should read."—Anne Kelly Knowles, University of MaineTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface: How We Got Here...Part I: LocalizationIntroduction: Localization1. Spatial Violence2. Mapping the Ghetto3. The Archive4. Streets and BuildingsPart II: The Making of a Violent SpaceIntroduction: The Making of a Violent Space5. Jews in Pre-War Warsaw6. Creation of the Ghetto7. Dissolution of the Ghetto8. Contested SpacePart III: Experiences of a Violent SpaceIntroduction: Experiences of a Violent Space9. Destruction10. Decreed Space11. Buildings12. Lost Homes13. Violated Homes14. Overcrowding15. Life and Death16. News17. Communication18. Orientation19. Topography of Violence20. Public Violence21. Sound of the Ghetto22. Deserted Apartments23. Death Space24. Spaces of ResistancePart V: Conclusion25. Violent SpaceAppendixWorks CitedIndex
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Indiana University Press Violent Space The Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Given its focus on the Warsaw ghetto, Violent Space builds on a number of existing works in important ways through its focus on the topography of the ghetto and the spatial practices of ghetto inhabitants. As the author notes, the destruction of the ghetto means that these places and spaces are no longer present in the contemporary city and the author follows Engelking and Leociak in excavating them and bringing them to life. Here the book will appeal to the general reader given the importance of the Warsaw ghetto within the story of the Holocaust. But Violent Space does more than focus on Warsaw alone and so will be of wider interest to scholars of ghettos and the nascent field of Holocaust geographies, environmental histories of the Holocaust and genocide space."—Tim Cole, author of Holocaust Landscapes"This is an excellent book. It is well-written, clear, original, and relevant. The author never fails, when discussing these experiences, to frame the conversation around the concept of space, with pertinent examples and quite deep reflections on the personal geographies and stories of the witnesses."—Alberto Giordano, editor of Geographies of the Holocaust"Anja Nowak's Violent Space marks the advent of mature spatial scholarship on the Holocaust. This astonishingly insightful book is infused with Nowak's profound understanding of Nazi spatial theory and practice and how their violent implementation in the Warsaw ghetto created extreme, constantly changing spaces of human suffering. Nowak's lucid prose makes every chapter coherent and powerful, while building a sustained interpretation of ghettoized space as violence, and violence as a flood of spatial acts. Violent Space is spatial history at its very best: deeply geographical, seeking at every turn to determine how spatial ideas became specific actions that affected Jews' lives. A brilliant contribution to Holocaust studies that spatial scholars across the humanities should read."—Anne Kelly Knowles, University of MaineTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface: How We Got Here...Part I: LocalizationIntroduction: Localization1. Spatial Violence2. Mapping the Ghetto3. The Archive4. Streets and BuildingsPart II: The Making of a Violent SpaceIntroduction: The Making of a Violent Space5. Jews in Pre-War Warsaw6. Creation of the Ghetto7. Dissolution of the Ghetto8. Contested SpacePart III: Experiences of a Violent SpaceIntroduction: Experiences of a Violent Space9. Destruction10. Decreed Space11. Buildings12. Lost Homes13. Violated Homes14. Overcrowding15. Life and Death16. News17. Communication18. Orientation19. Topography of Violence20. Public Violence21. Sound of the Ghetto22. Deserted Apartments23. Death Space24. Spaces of ResistancePart V: Conclusion25. Violent SpaceAppendixWorks CitedIndex
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Indiana University Press The Holocaust
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£56.10
Indiana University Press Image and Remembrance Representation and the
Book SynopsisThe passage of time and the reality of an aging survivor population have made it increasingly urgent to document and give expression to testimony, experience, and memory of the Holocaust. This title demonstrates that artistic representations are central to the practice of remembrance and commemoration.Trade Review"This comprehensive collection of essays on art and the Holocaust... [is] a valuable volume." -Jewish Book WorldTable of ContentsIntroduction Shelley Hornstein and Florence JacobowitzPART ONE: COMMEMORATION AND SITES OF MOURNING1. Shoah as Cinema Florence Jacobowitz2. Second-Sight: Shimon Attie's Recollection Berel Lang3. Rituals of Mourning and Mimesis: Arie A. Galles's Fourteen Stations Andrea Liss4. Trauma Daniel Libeskind5. Memory, Counter-memory, and the End of the Monument James YoungPART TWO: PERSONAL RESPONSES AND FAMILIAL LEGACIES6. Material Memory: Holocaust Testimony in Post-Holocaust Art Marianne Hirsch and Susan Rubin Suleiman7. Caught by Images: Visual Imprints in Holocaust Testimonies Ernst Van Alphen8. Gays and the Holocaust: Two Documentaries Robin Wood9. War Stories: Witnessing in Retrospect Marianne Hirsch and Leo SpitzerPART THREE: MEMENTO MORI: ATROCITY AND AESTHETICS10. The Iconic and the Allusive: The Case for Beauty in Post-Holocaust Art Janet Wolff11. Burnt Books and Absent Meaning: Morris Louis' Charred Journal: Firewritten Series and the Holocaust Mark Godfrey12. Emblems of Atrocity: Holocaust Liberation Photographs Carol Zemel13. The Uses and Abuses of Photography in Holocaust-Related Art Monica Bohm-DuchenPART FOUR: NATIONAL EXPRESSIONS OF REMEMBRANCE14. The Jewish Museum, Vienna: A Holographic Paradigm for History and the Holocaust Reesa Greenberg15. Memory Block: Rachel Whiteread's Holocaust Memorial in Vienna Rebecca Comay16. Turning the Places of Holocaust History into Places of Holocaust Memory: Holocaust Memorials in Budapest, Hungary 1945-1995 Tim Cole17. Berlin Elegies: Absence, Postmemory, and Art after Auschwitz Leslie Morris18. Invisible Topographies: Looking for the Mémorial de la Déportation in Paris Shelley HornsteinContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Lódz Ghetto
Book SynopsisDescribes and explains the tragedy that befell the Jews imprisoned in the first major ghetto imposed by the Germans. This book reconstructs the organization of the ghetto and discusses its provisioning, forced labor, diseases and mortality, crime and deportations, living conditions, political, social, and cultural life and resistance.Trade ReviewA monumental work. * Financial Times *Trunk's essential volume provides invaluable material for yet more objective 'appreciations' of the terrible plight of the Jewish leaderships and inhabitants in the 'ghettos for Jews' set up by the Nazi authorities in the East. Vol. 89, no. 1, January 2011 * Slavonic and East European Review *This translation . . . makes available an invaluable resource for English-language readers. . . . The book is handsomely produced and, in addition to 141 original documents (in translation), an extraordinarily detailed index, and period photographs, contains informative essays by translator-editor Shapiro and two renowned Holocaust scholars, the late Joseph Kermish and Israel Gutman. An indispensable tool for Holocaust research. . . . Essential. * Choice *Table of ContentsContentsList of Major Tables, Charts, and MapsList of AbbreviationsTranslator-Editor's Introduction Robert Moses ShapiroIsaiah Trunk Joseph KermishIntroduction: The Distinctiveness of the Lódz Ghetto Israel GutmanForeword Jacob RobinsonAuthor's Preface Isaiah TrunkI. Establishment of the Ghetto Documents 1–23II. Organization of the Ghetto Documents 26–64III. Provisioning Documents 65–83IV. Forced Labor Documents 84–95V. Diseases and MortalityVI. Persecutions, Murder, and Deportations Documents 96–112VII. Internal Conditions Documents 113–141VIII. The Problem of ResistanceIX. Conclusions and SummationsDocuments Arranged by ChapterStreet Names in Lódz GhettoBibliographyIndexes Names of German Officials and Business Firms Places Subjects
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Indiana University Press Last Folio Textures of Jewish Life in Slovakia
Book SynopsisRemembrance of a once-thriving Jewish culture in SlovakiaTrade ReviewThis slim catalog of the recent exhibit by award-winning photographer Yuri Dojc gives the reader a new viewpoint of the indescribable loss of the Holocaust. The accompanying text describing the journey that produced these pictures is well written and concise. * AJL Reviews *Each picture not only grabs your attention because of the technique and chilling content, but also because of the raw emotion of the images, themselves beautiful objects. Dojc's work reminds us of a once vibrant community now lost.July 17, 2011 * Bloomington Herald-Times *[This book] is visually stunning and verbally bold. * Canadian Jewish News *Dojc's images beautifully commemorate the history of the Jewish people and culture of slovakia. . . . The texts by Katya Krausova, Azar Nafisi, and Lufia Faltin provide meaningful context, and the subject matter is treated with deep respect and sensitivity. * www.photolife.com *Table of ContentsContentsForewordAcknowledgments and SponsorsPhotographic Memory David G. MarwellThe Journey Katya KrausovaMap of SlovakiaAll That Remain Azar NafisiPlatesLast Folio: In the Context of History and Memory Lucia FaltinSurvivorsJews in Slovakia: A ChronologyBiographies
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MH - Indiana University Press American Refugee Policy and European Jewry
Book SynopsisHow does one explain America's failure to take bold action to resist the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews?Trade Review" ... an exhaustively documented and important book ..." Philadelphia Inquirer "This is an unusually thoughtful and balanced treatment of a controversial subject. Based on very extensive archival research, this will be from here on the first book those interested in the subject should read." Gerhard Weinberg "Informative, even-tempered and dispassionate ... this comprehensive study of a controversial subject makes for indispensable reading." Dimensions " ... stands as the most readable of the growing literature on America's response to the Holocaust." History " ... important, finely calibrated study ..." Journal of American History "It is a masterful study, and one which future students of American policy during the Holocaust years will have to consult." Midstream " ... perceptive and penetrating ... an excellent analysis of the bureaucratic priorities of policy makers in Washington and officials abroad in handling the refugees issue between 1933-1945." Journal of Refugee Studies " ... the author's novel approach to familiar material makes this a valuable contribution in attempting to understand what happens when humanitarian concerns and national interests collide." American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsPREFACE INTRODUCTION ONE: The Labor DepartmentOs Initiative TWO: Guardians of Visa Policy THREE: A Window of Opportunity? FOUR: Refugees and American Jewry FIVE: The Fifth Column Threat SIX: Breckinridge Long and the Jewish Refugees SEVEN: A Message to Rabbi Wise EIGHT: War Propaganda and the Jews NINE: On a Broad Humanitarian Basis TEN: The War Refugee Board in Europe ELEVEN: Roosevelt and the Refugees in the 1930s TWELVE: Roosevelt and the Holocaust NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE INDEX
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Indiana University Press Bitter Legacy
Book SynopsisDescribes the perpetration of the Holocaust in the USSR and probes the political and social consequences of the mass destruction of Soviet Jews.Table of Contents1. Soviet Jewry Before the Holocaust Zvi Gitelman2. Politics and the Historiography of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union Zvi Gitelman3. The Holocaust and Ukrainian Jews Shmuel Spector4. The Ukrainian Population and the Nazi Genocide of the Jews M. I. Koval5. Metropolitan Andrei Sheptyts'kyi and the Complexities of Ukrainian-Jewish Relations Shimon Redlich6. Antisemitism in Ukraine toward the End of the Second World War Mordechai Altshuler7. From White Terror to Holocaust in Lithuania: Nazi Policy towards the Jews in the Reichskommissariat Ostland, June-December 1941 Michael MacQueen8. "Inventing" the Holocaust for Latvia: New Research Hans-Heinrich Wilhelm9. Jewish Refugees from Poland in the USSR, 1939-1946 Yosef Litvak10. Jewish Warfare and the Participation of Jews in Combat in the Soviet Union: Soviet and Western Historiography Mordechai Altshuler11. Jewish-Lithuanian Relations during World War II: History and Rhetoric Sara Shner-Neshamit12. Lithuanian-Jewish Relations in the Shadow of the Holocaust: Some Recent Lithuanian Discussions Introduced and annotated by Sima Ycikas13. The Holocaust and the Armed Struggle in Belorussia as Reflected in Soviet Literature and Works by Emigres in the West Shalom Cholawski14. Soviet Jews under Nazi Occupation in Northeastern Belarus and Northern Russia Daniel RomanovskyDocuments15. German Orders16. Implementation17. Eyewitness Accounts18. Rescue19. Collaboration and Resistance20. Antisemitic Legacy of the HolocaustIndex
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Indiana University Press Pius XII the Holocaust and the Cold War
Book SynopsisAn account of the controversial actions of Pius XII, the man whom some have called "Hitler's Pope", and the Vatican during Europe's darkest years.Trade ReviewPhayer's text reads like a riveting suspense novel—filled with intrigue, conspiracy, and money laundering. . . . The so-called Pius Wars will not end with this book, but Phayer makes a welcome addition to the debate. . . . Recommended. * Choice *This is an impressive study, which uses the new documentation in a judicious manner to develop credible reinterpretations of papal policy during the war and after. . . . The book makes a particularly valuable and original contribution . . . March 2009 * The International History Review *The new material that Phayer has brought to light from the National Archives offers a useful contribution to our understanding of the controversial relationship between the Vatican and the perpetrators of the Holocaust, expecially in the postwar period. April 2009 * American Historical Review *Michael Phayer has made excellent use of newly released archival material in his study of Pope Pius XII. May 2009 * German Studies Review *Unlike several passionate recent studies of Pius XII . . . Phayer makes every effort at scholarly restraint and caution. But, in the end, his careful effort produces powerful evidence that will likely add significantly to the controversy surrounding the pope . . . Certainly anyone interested in this fascinating, important, and disturbing topic must read this book.Volume 43, 2010 * Central European History *Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Eugenio Pacelli: 1900 to 19422. The Genocides of Polish Catholics and Polish Jews3. Pius XII's 1942 Christmas Message: Genocide Decried4. 1943: Pius XII Reverses Course5. Papal Capitalism during World War II6. The First Cold War Warrior7. The Origin of the Vatican Ratlines8. Bishop Hudal's Ratline9. Looted Gold and the Vatican10. Ante Pavelic: War Criminal, Murderer, and Defender of the Faith11. The Biggest Ratline12. An Obsession with CommunismNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press The Nazi Ancestral Proof Genealogy Racial
Book SynopsisTraces the widespread acceptance of Nazi policies requiring German individuals to prove their Aryan ancestry to the popularity of ideas about eugenics and racial science that were advanced in the late Imperial and Weimar periods by practitioners of genealogy and eugenics.Trade ReviewThoroughly researched and vigorously argued, this study seeks to explain how the National Socialist regime institutionalized its racial ideology, why it met with virtually no opposition, and how this contributed to genocide. Attorney Ehrenreich shows that, as with many other developments, 1933 was not the absolute watershed scholars usually assume it to have been. Tracing the history of genealogical practices, eugenics, and "scientific" racism from the imperial era (1871-1918) into the Weimar years (1919-33), the author reasons that Germans had become thoroughly accustomed to these discourses. Notwithstanding their scientific worthlessness, the Nazi version of these theories met with no meaningful resistance, as millions upon millions of Germans complied with the regime's demands regarding the racial purity of their ancestors. Compliance may have rested on a "combination of perceived benefits" rather than enthusiasm for the ideology, but whatever the basis for public acceptance, it allowed the Nazis to implement thousands of racial laws with virtually no opposition from either institutions or individuals. Whole new branches of commerce emerged to service a new public need—providing the proof that one was untainted by "Jewish blood." Ordinary Germans thus helped identify and isolate Jews, steps that led to their extermination. An important book, accessible to general readers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. -- R. S. Levy * Choice *Eric Ehrenreich traces the widespread acceptance of Nazi policies requiring German individuals to prove their Aryan ancestry to the popularity of ideas about eugenics and racial science that were advanced in the late Imperial and Weimar periods by practitioners of genealogy and eugenics. This is a detailed study of the operation of the ancestral proof in the Third Reich and the link between Nazi racism and earlier German genealogical practices. The widespread acceptance of this racist ideology by ordinary Germans helped create the conditions for the Final Solution. -- Joseph Haberer * SHOFAR *The ancestral proof ... formed the bedrock of the regime's racial policies ... It is ... surprising that this issue has not received more scholarly attention, and Ehrenreich has made an interesting and valuable contribution by elucidating it.Vol. 42 2009 -- Lars Fischer * University College London *In this important study, Eric Ehrenreich demonstrates how genealogical studies and racist eugenics converged to help institutionalize racism in Nazi society.2008 -- Richard Weikart * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *. . . Washington-based lawyer Eric Ehrenreich has produced the most exhaustive study available on the way in which 19th- and early 20th-century German pseudo science and its Nazi successors carried out a war against non Aryans, particularly Jews.April 15, 2009 -- Arnold Ages * National Jewish Post and Opinion (KY ed.) *Peter Fritsche calls Ehrenreich's book 'an excellent contribution to our understanding of racism in the Third Reich' ... Richard Weikart, [on the other hand,] while praising Ehrenreich's explication of [the] Nazi 'ancestral proof,' ... rejects his argument that scientific racism ligitimated but did not lead to the Holocaust. That two reviewers can provide such markedly different assessments of the book suggests that something interesting is going on. And indeed, whether one agrees with Eherenreich or not, his book is worth reading.2009 -- Dan Stone * Journal of Genocide Research *. . . each contribution builds either explicitly or implicitly on the shared working assumption that conventional distinctions between (religious) anti-Judaism and (racialist) antisemitism may conceal as much as they reveal. Traditional anti-Judaism, these scholars agree, both framed and exploited politically instrumentalized forms of cultural and racial antisemitism, reflecting a 'Christian failure to understand and acknowledge Judaism on its own terms' . . . .Vol. 23. 1 Spring 2009 -- David J. Diephouse * Calvin College *Ehrenreich's book is an extremely well-argued, insightful exposition of the institutionalization of racism in everyday life during the Third Reich.2008 -- Peter Fritzsche * H-German *[P]rovides interesting insights into the institutionalization of racism in Nazi society. 28.4 2010 * German History *Ehrenreich's book carefully and clearly enumerates scientific racism's fallacies of logic. . . . [His book shows that] although racist eugenics was less logically coherent than hereditary health eugenics, greater numbers of 'racially acceptable' Germans appear to have been willing to accept racist eugenic doctrine in order to come to terms with their own failure to act in the face of their neighbors' suffering. In other words, Ehrenreich concludes. . . . racial antisemitism was an indicator of what people sincerely hoped to be true. I find this thesis both terrifying and plausible. . . . [The] book is an extremely well-argued, insightful exposition of the institutionalization of racism in everyday life during the Third Reich. -- H-GermanEhrenreich tells a fascinating story, and his book is a model of patient research and meticulous archival investigation. . . . a major contribution to the intellectual and social history of Nazism.Vol. 114.4 October 2009 -- DANIEL GASMAN * John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York *Thoroughly researched and vigorously argued, this study seeks to explain how the National Socialist regime institutionalized its racial ideology, why it met with virtually no opposition, and how this contributed to genocide. . . . An important book, accessible to general readers. . . . Highly recommended.November 2008 -- R. S. Levy * University of Illinois at Chicago *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionList of Abbreviations1. Racial Science2. The Origins of Racist Eugenics in Imperial Germany3. The Spread of Racist Eugenics in Weimar4. Making the Ancestral Proof in Nazi Germany5. The Reich Genealogical Authority and Its Tasks6. The Reich Genealogical Authority and the Ancestral Proof7. Three Beneficiaries of the Ancestral Proof8. Other Means of Generating Acceptance of Racism9. Racial Scientific Ideology and the HolocaustConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Notre Dame Press The Holocaust and Catholic Conscience
Book SynopsisThis work argues that the American-born Aloisius Muench helped shape the Catholic Church's rejection of guilt for the persecution of Jews under the NazisTrade Review"In this revealing study, Suzanne Brown-Fleming takes us back to a post–World War II Catholic world that had yet to come to terms with either Nazism or the Holocaust. One of the leading Catholic clerics in postwar Europe, Cardinal Aloisius Muench both reflected and helped promote German Catholic failures in this regard. Anchored in Cardinal Muench's private papers, this book conducts a fair-minded, but rigorous and morally animated assessment of a Catholic conscience that was later transformed by Vatican II. I recommend it highly." —Michael R. Marrus, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto"This is an excellent book that will be of great interest to all historians in the fields of church history, Christian-Jewish relations, and American Catholicism." —Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College"Brown-Fleming argues quite effectively that attitudes such as these espoused by Muench and so many others in the Catholic hierarchy gave rise to a culture in which German Catholics could deny involvement in Nazi criminality, thus providing fertile ground for Catholic denial. Brown-Fleming has provided historians with a thoughtful reminder that leaders of the American church shared in the shaping of post-World War II German Catholic memory." —H-GERMAN Digest"Suzanne Brown-Fleming's short study of the post-1945 career in Germany of Bishop, later Cardinal, Aloisius Muench seeks to rectify some shortcomings she finds in F. Colman Barry's biography written in the 1960s. . . In her view, Muench, as the Vatican's leading representative in Germany from 1946 to 1959, contributed to the lack of self-examination and the perpetuation of anti-Semitic prejudices among German Catholics. In this way, he was emblematic of the Catholic Church's failure in this period to confront its own complicity in Nazism's anti-Jewish ideology." —The Catholic Historical Review"Suzanne Brown-Fleming has made a critical contribution to the growing research on the question of the Roman Catholic Church's policies and actions with regard to the Holocaust during World War II. . . Through the author's socio-historical, contextual analysis of these documents, the reader is brought into this shocking narrative of German Catholicism's post-war discourse on the issue of Germany's and the Church's own guilt and/or responsibility for the antisemitic horror inflicted on European Jews throughout the war." —Shofar “In a concise and clearly written book that will surely arouse polarizing responses, [Brown-Flemming] argues that the American-born Aloisius Muench helped shape the Catholic Church's rejection of guilt for the persecution of Jews under the Nazis. . . . She convincingly shows that Muench worked much more rigorously on behalf of the defeated Germans than for their victims.” —Central European History “The import of this book is not only its critical historical analysis of the legitimizing, self-preserving, and anti-Semitic 'conscience' of the Roman Catholic Church in the immediate aftermath of World War II and the increasing world-wide awareness of the Holocaust horror. Through a critical reading of the text, it also forewarns of an all too similar contemporary trend developing now on a global scale in the form of the U.S.-led neo-conservative notion of a 'clash of civilizations.'” —Shofar“Brown-Flemming's work deepens our understanding of how Catholics coped in the postwar period, as anti-Semitism not only lingered, but also continued to shape Catholic responses to the past.” —Holocaust and Genocide Studies“This book draws on Muench's papers and offers the first assessment of his legacy. It 'argues that Muench legitimized the Catholic Church's failure during this period to confront the nature of its own complicity in Nazism's anti-Jewish ideology.'” —Theology Digest“Brown-Fleming paints a portrait of Cardinal Muench as a man who did not want to face the reality of Nazism. According to her account, Muench portrayed almost all Germans either as victims, both of the Nazis and of the Occupation forces, or as heroes who had resisted the Nazis. Certainly, Muench did nothing to lead Catholic self-examination of the Church’s role during the Holocaust. Rather, he defended Germans against any attribution of collective guilt.” —Human Rights and Human Welfare: An International Review of Books and Other Publications
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University of Notre Dame Press Memoirs Red and White
Book SynopsisThis book is Peter F. Dembowski’s memoir of his time as a Polish soldier, serving as a narrative of life before, during, and after World War II. Trade Review"Memoirs Red and White: Poland, the War, and After is a powerful portrait of Polish life in the late 1930s and 1940s, told beautifully through the lens of Peter F. Dembowski's heroic family. Dembowski recounts the adventures of his brave and ethical family members during the Depression, as members of the konspiracja, as well as his mother's and sister's executions in Ravensbrück. The author provides a riveting account of his own heroism during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and his incarceration in Stalag XB near Sandbostel, as well as his life in the United States after the war. The book describes the patriotism of Poles during a very difficult era. Dembowski's book is an excellent choice for readers who want to learn more about Polish life, patriotism, and history during the Second World War." —Eric Sterling, Distinguished Research Professor of English, Auburn University at Montgomery“Peter F. Dembowski’s Memoirs Red and White: Poland, the War, and After is the moving testimony of an individual who has had firsthand knowledge of the most dramatic moments in the history of the twentieth century. His story is one of heroic courage, honesty, and optimism." —Thomas Pavel Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literature, University of Chicago"Memoirs Red and White vividly describes life in Poland before and during the war. It touches on the issues of war and resistance, life in the camps, and the gruesome toll of death and survival. While there is no shortage of literature on the war and camps, Dembowski adds new vignettes and details that will be of interest to a general reader. I think it is important to have Dembowski's record of the events in print as the last of the war generation is disappearing, taking with them their memories and life stories." —Michael Khodarkovsky, Loyola University Chicago"Peter F. Dembowski . . . provides an engrossing glimpse into his early life growing up in Poland prior to World War II and his subsequent immigration to Canada and eventually the United States. . . . In the summer of 1943, Dembowski participated in the Polish resistance. He was captured and detained by the Gestapo, and his release was quite unexpected by his family. A year later, Dembowski was again captured and sent to one of the many internment camps outside of Warsaw until it was liberated by the British. . . . [This] success story of a World War II survivor from Poland is enlightening, inspirational, and thoughtful." —Foreword Reviews“An impressively written and detailed autobiography, Memoirs Red and White: Poland, the War, and After showcases a life lived out in the interesting times. An informative and absorbing read from beginning to end, ‘Memoirs Red and White’ is very highly recommended for bother community and academic library Contemporary Biography collections.” —The Midwest Book Review “To this memoir [Dembowski] brings the academic’s discipline and dispassionate approach not to mention a lifetime of reflection. . . Dembowski has a flair for the out of the ordinary. Here he strives to present complexity, challenging simplistic notions of Polish-German animosity, anti-Communism, and anti-Semitism. . . This book is but a modest contribution to a fairly hefty body of material but will nonetheless reward the reader seeking insight into Poland’s world war.” —Humanities and Social Sciences Online “Written in an engaging, conversational style, Memoirs Red and White is both a witness to the tumultuous course of events in the 20th century and the record of a life truly well lived. It will certainly have appeal to those interested in Polish culture and history, World War II, the lives of Polish Americans, or biographies of academics, as well as those who enjoy stirring examples of heroism, courage, and endurance. Highly recommended, this book is suitable for public and academic libraries alike.” —Catholic Library World“Dembowski is exceptional for conveying a truthful picture of what he witnessed during the war. He avoids the trap of obviously interpreting his memories through the prism of subsequent accounts. He is impressively balanced and objective even though the account of his war-time experiences are harrowing and in many ways complex.” —European History Quarterly “This compelling memoir offers much to historians researching the twentieth century. . . . Dembowski’s memoir is particularly moving when he writes of his family. . . . Throughout his life Dembowski has drawn strength from his Christian faith. And even those who profess no faith are likely to be touched by his reflection on death in the final pages of his memoir.” —Journal of Contemporary History
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University of Notre Dame Press Choice of the Jews under Vichy The
Book SynopsisThe Choice of the Jews under Vichy is written from the joint perspective of a historian and a participant in the events he describes. An organizer of the communist faction of the Jewish resistance in France, Rayski buttresses his analysis of war-era archival materials with his own personal testimony.Trade Review"The publication of an English translation of Adam Rayski's book ... is a welcome addition.... Rayski's book remains valuable largely for the valuable primary source material it brings to the fore.... [T]he University of Notre Dame Press with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum should be commended for having made this work available in an excellent English translation.” —American Historical Review "Rayski renders justice to the numerous French Jews who joined the resistance. . . . [He] gives us for the first time a comprehensive picture of the collective attitudes of the Jews of France from 1939 to 1944." —L'Arche"Well researched and forcefully argued, . . . Adam Rayski's book describes not only what the Jews did, but makes a case for what they should have done. As such, whatever the viewpoint of the reader, this is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the mentalities of the time, and also a testament to some activists' faith in human solidarity." —Times Literary Supplement“Rayski, who served as an official of an important Jewish resistance organization under Vichy, examines Jewish responses to Vichy policy as a series of choices. . . . Rayski's approach effectively portrays French Jews as much more than passive victims of an oppression imposed on them from above; rather, through oral and written testimonies and extensive archival research, he conveys the Jews' involvement in their own collective destiny. . . . Recommended.” —Choice"[A] rich and detailed description of the challenges faced by French Jewry during World War II. . . . This complex . . . important book is recommended for scholars of French history and Jewish and Holocaust studies." —Library Journal"[Rayski] pieces together the 'hidden face' of daily Jewish life under the Occupation and relates the experiences of those who went underground—an especially rich and valuable discussion as this phenomenon has rarely been studied." —Library Journal"This highly recommended book is suitable for anyone concerned with resistance, the Holocaust, Jewish studies, or the history of the Jews under Vichy." —History: Reviews of New Books“One of the most informed memoirs of the Occupation, the book is also a shrewd and detailed analysis. It is nuanced in its approach and yet ready to be decisive and provocative in its judgments. Anyone searching for context as well as narrative will be richly rewarded by a thematic concentration on the multiple constraints which faced the Jews in Vichy France… This is both witness and history of exceptional provenance and quality.” —The English Historical Review“Reading the excellent English-language version of Rayski's original study is unsettling. Rayski is concerned first and foremost with erecting a pantheon for heroes of the war-Jewish activists on the Left in the Resistance-and condemning those elements in the French Jewish community who, in his estimation, blindly acceded to Vichy pressure and irresponsibly maintained the officially mandated stance throughout most of the war. If read as a testament by a significant representative of Eastern European Jewry to try to make sense of the world in which he lived and the decisions which he took, Rayski's book provides a viewpoint that will enrich the future historian's analysis of the ways that many survivors of the Holocaust in France interpreted their past.” —Journal of Modern History“The strength of the book, particularly taking its original publication date into consideration, lies in its ability to portray Jews not as passive victims but as active resisters and to emphasize a collective consciousness of self-affirmation.” — H-Net Reviews
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University of Notre Dame Press Choice of the Jews under Vichy The
Book SynopsisIn The Choice of the Jews under Vichy, Adam Rayski buttresses his analysis of war-era archival materials with his own personal testimony. His research in the archives of the military, the Central Consistory of the Jews of France, the police, and Philippe Pétain demonstrates the Vichy government’s role as a zealous accomplice in the Nazi programme of genocide.Trade Review"The publication of an English translation of Adam Rayski's book ... is a welcome addition.... Rayski's book remains valuable largely for the valuable primary source material it brings to the fore.... [T]he University of Notre Dame Press with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum should be commended for having made this work available in an excellent English translation.” —American Historical Review "Rayski renders justice to the numerous French Jews who joined the resistance. . . . [He] gives us for the first time a comprehensive picture of the collective attitudes of the Jews of France from 1939 to 1944." —L'Arche"Well researched and forcefully argued, . . . Adam Rayski's book describes not only what the Jews did, but makes a case for what they should have done. As such, whatever the viewpoint of the reader, this is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the mentalities of the time, and also a testament to some activists' faith in human solidarity." —Times Literary Supplement“Rayski, who served as an official of an important Jewish resistance organization under Vichy, examines Jewish responses to Vichy policy as a series of choices. . . . Rayski's approach effectively portrays French Jews as much more than passive victims of an oppression imposed on them from above; rather, through oral and written testimonies and extensive archival research, he conveys the Jews' involvement in their own collective destiny. . . . Recommended.” —Choice"[A] rich and detailed description of the challenges faced by French Jewry during World War II. . . . This complex . . . important book is recommended for scholars of French history and Jewish and Holocaust studies." —Library Journal"[Rayski] pieces together the 'hidden face' of daily Jewish life under the Occupation and relates the experiences of those who went underground—an especially rich and valuable discussion as this phenomenon has rarely been studied." —Library Journal"This highly recommended book is suitable for anyone concerned with resistance, the Holocaust, Jewish studies, or the history of the Jews under Vichy." —History: Reviews of New Books“One of the most informed memoirs of the Occupation, the book is also a shrewd and detailed analysis. It is nuanced in its approach and yet ready to be decisive and provocative in its judgments. Anyone searching for context as well as narrative will be richly rewarded by a thematic concentration on the multiple constraints which faced the Jews in Vichy France… This is both witness and history of exceptional provenance and quality.” —The English Historical Review“Reading the excellent English-language version of Rayski's original study is unsettling. Rayski is concerned first and foremost with erecting a pantheon for heroes of the war-Jewish activists on the Left in the Resistance-and condemning those elements in the French Jewish community who, in his estimation, blindly acceded to Vichy pressure and irresponsibly maintained the officially mandated stance throughout most of the war. If read as a testament by a significant representative of Eastern European Jewry to try to make sense of the world in which he lived and the decisions which he took, Rayski's book provides a viewpoint that will enrich the future historian's analysis of the ways that many survivors of the Holocaust in France interpreted their past.” —Journal of Modern History“The strength of the book, particularly taking its original publication date into consideration, lies in its ability to portray Jews not as passive victims but as active resisters and to emphasize a collective consciousness of self-affirmation.” — H-Net Reviews
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University of Notre Dame Press A French Slave in Nazi Germany
Book SynopsisElie Poulard's memoir tells of his experience as a young Frenchman deported to work sites in Nazi Germany under France's Required Work Service Law on 1943.Trade Review"A French Slave in Nazi Germany: A Testimony addresses a significant though little-known page of French history during World War II. While many people know of the Vichy government and its collaboration with the Nazis—in particular the deportation of French Jews—few people realized then, and now, the extent of such collaboration. It would surprise many to learn that the Vichy government provided Germany with French citizens who were deported and forced into slave labor in wartime Germany. Poulard's book confronts this unsavory part of French history and gives personal testimony to the terrible conditions under which the deported laborers existed." —Michael Khodarkovsky, Loyola University Chicago"The book vividly evokes the life of a young French man forcibly sent to work in Germany during World War II. Once the Vichy Government of France passed the Required Work Service Law in 1943, more than half a million young French men were deported to Germany where they worked in the harshest conditions to replace the German men sent to fight in the war. This testimony is particularly significant today, at a time when all aspects of the war are closely examined. The chapters about the effects of the Allied bombing in the western part of Germany are especially poignant as they allow the reader to witness the gradual collapse and final capitulation of the Nazi regime." —Thomas Pavel, Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago"This is a fascinating and depressing account of a young Frenchman sent by his own government to be a slave laborer in Nazi Germany. One can only have enormous respect for Elie Poulard, who persevered and kept his faith in the face of hardship and tragedy. He not only witnessed one of the darkest periods in modern history, but he survived it with cunning and dignity." —John J. Mearsheimer, author of Why Leaders Lie: The Truth about Lying in International Politics"As the passage of time silences the voices of the Second World War generation, we are grateful to have the memories of Elie Poulard. A French Slave in Nazi Germany tells the story of how Elie Poulard’s faith helped him endure the many years of suffering as a Déporté du Travail. His eloquent and gripping tale is testament to the abiding power of the human will in the face of adversity." —Michael Creswell, author of A Question of Balance: How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe“Jean Poulard of Michiana Shores had a large part in the release of his brother’s book. . . . In 1943, the Vichy French government, which collaborated with the German occupation in World War II, made a law, the Required to Work Service Act, that mandated young French males work for the Germans. Elie [was] one of 600,000 men who were forced into such service. . . . Firsthand accounts of this part of French history in World War II are rare, especially in books available in the United States.” —The News Dispatch"The Nazi war machine was powered by slaves. Elie Poulard was just one of the more than 600,000 French civilians who were rounded up by Vichy collaborators and sent to work in Nazi Germany. Now, more than 70 years after the end of the Second World War, Poulard is sharing his story. A French Slave in Nazi Germany, recounts the largely forgotten horrors and deprivations conscripted workers suffered at the hands of their captors, as well as the dangers they faced as Allied bombs rained down around them." —Military History Now“[This] book sheds light on an under-documented population who suffered under the Nazi regime and is a welcome addition to the literature of World War II.” —Catholic Library World“The book can be read in a few hours, and I would recommend it for anyone who wants to more fully understand French forced labor in World War II history.” —Carolyn Porter Book Review Blog"There are few STO memoirs translated into English, and Poulard’s testimony becomes all the more important as a result. Moreover, this is a book not about resistance or collaboration, but about those millions of French who complied with the rules of occupation as a means of survival. . . . [W]e see a story of fear and survival—one which replicates the experiences of most French people during that period." —H France Review
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University of Notre Dame Press Four Scraps of Bread
Book Synopsis Four Scraps of Bread is Magda Hollander-Lafon’s memoir of her time in Auschwitz and her homage to the men and women who perished in the Holocaust. Trade Review"The brevity of Magda Hollander-Lafon’s Four Scraps of Bread only magnifies its power. Part prose, part poetry, it takes us into the gates of Auschwitz, where her sensitive observations and intense self-examination open up the inner world of the Lager. One must appreciate the power of her words; more importantly the integrity of her example. I was moved, touched, frightened, and horrified. One must be grateful for such a distinct act of witness." —Michael Berenbaum, director, Sigi Ziering Institute"Magda Hollander-Lafon's experience of the Holocaust may parallel that of the Romanian-born Elie Wiesel, but her approach is even more abstracted and poetic. Instantly recognizable details of dehumanization, complicity, and endurance are all present, but with the goal of developing a spiritual and therapeutic vision of survival beyond the amassing of evidence. The enormous recent growth in publication of both saved firsthand accounts and post-memory analyses forms an additional appreciative context for Hollander-Laffon's singular work, not least as it is written by a woman, when most original accounts were produced by men." —Seán Hand, University of Warwick"Magda Hollander-Lafon’s book shines with an unquenchable yearning for life despite the appalling suffering and brutality it portrays. Through the eyes of her memory we see the whole gamut of human reactions to unspeakable suffering and cruelty. We connect with them at extraordinary depth through the heart of a tortured child whose hope never died. This is a heartbreaking, compassionate, triumphant book filled with a rare insight into human evil and suffering." —Gemma Simmonds, CJ, Heythrop College, University of London"An extraordinary memoir that is a valued and appreciated addition to the growing library of Holocaust literature, "Four Scraps of Bread" is unreservedly and emphatically recommended for community, college, and university library collections." —Midwest Book Review"[E]very once in a while a book is published which grabs us by the throat, the mind and the heart and makes us look, think, reflect and allow ourselves to be challenged. Such a book is Magda Hollander-Lafon’s Four Scraps of Bread, a brief memoir, part poetry, part prose, of her experience as a child in Auschwitz. There are few such original accounts written by women and few in which the horror and cruelty are balanced by such extraordinary spiritual depth and resilience, and such unrelenting self-confrontation in search of hope." —Thinking Faith“Four Scraps of Bread is highly and unreservedly recommended. . . [It is] an exceptional and moving read.” —Reviewer’s Bookwatch“The images Hollander-Lafon sketches in Four Scraps of Bread are often brutally evocative; so it is with this book. She gives us a hint of what she and the others suffered. . . . She trusts us to feel the pain. And, to remember.” —Neworld Review“As a profoundly personal quest for meaning, Four Scraps of Bread makes an important contribution to Holocaust literature and is highly recommended for parish libraries.” —Catholic Library World"'I did not understand how people changed so much: Some became executioners, others became victims,' writes Holocaust survivor Magda Hollander-Lafon in Four Scraps of Bread, a slim volume of piercing, simple-yet-profound reflections on her journey through hell and back." —Sojourners“The book’s reflections, prose, meditations, and poetry offer ways to experience alongside Hollander-Lafon her lived experience, both in the death camp and in the the Holocaust’s aftermath, as she, despite all odds, lives through Auschwitz’s atrocities and builds a new life after the war. Her book shows the beauty, hope, and presence of God while not flinching from an open-eyed portrayal of the worst violence and brutality that humans are capable of inflicting on each other.” —Emily Sanna, associate editor, U.S. Catholic
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University of Notre Dame Press Elie Wiesel
Book SynopsisUpon presenting the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace to Elie Wiesel, Egil Aarvick, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee, hailed him as a messenger to mankind--not with a message of hate and revenge but with one of brotherhood and atonement. Elie Wiesel: Messenger to All Humanity, first published in 1983, echoes this theme and still affirms that message, a call to both Christians and Jews to face the tragedy of the Holocaust and begin again.Trade Review"[A]n insightful and often impassioned account of Elie Wiesel's themes, preoccupations and development. . . .Traces his moral and spiritual journey as it is reflected through his work and his biography." —The New York Times"Brown, a Protestant theologian, ecumenical, versatile, and sympathetic, approaches his subject well aware of the paradoxes and impossibilities involved: the inadequacy of language to convey the experience and the impossibility of remaining silent about it; the persistence of hope and faith in defiance of reason and experience; the meaning of madness and laughter." —Choice“Brown’s excellent concept of story… adds to his analytical understanding of what Wiesel means. His new book about Wiesel is a treasure.” — National Catholic Reporter
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Confronting History A Memoir
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Last Days of Theresienstadt
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University of Wisconsin Press Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust
Book SynopsisProvides a starting point for teachers to illuminate this crucial event in world history. Using a vast array of source materials - from literature and film to survivor testimonies and interviews - the contributors demonstrate how to guide students through these sensitive and painful subjects within their specific historical and social contexts.Table of Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Challenges and Necessity of Teaching the Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century 3 Laura J. Hilton and Avinoam Patt Part One: Teaching Specific Content Antisemitism: Understanding Its Meaning, Context, and History When Teaching the Holocaust 19 Jonathan Elukin The Rise of Nazism 32 Mark E. Spicka Legislation as a Path to Persecution 45 Russel Lemmons and Laura J. Hilton Jewish Responses to Nazism in Vienna after the Anschluss 60 Ilana F. Offenberger Understanding the Holocaust in the Context of World War II 81 Waitman Wade Beorn Tools of the State: The Universe of Nazi Camps 95 Geoffrey P. Megargee The Decentralized System of Nazi Ghettos in Eastern Europe 108 Martin Dean Teaching about Collaboration: A Case Study Approach 127 Steven P. Remy Resistance and Rescue 142 Laura J. Hilton Life in the Aftermath: Jewish Displaced Persons 159 Avinoam Patt Postwar Trials and Justice 178 Gabriel N. Finder Part Two: Sources, Methods, and Media for Teaching the Holocaust Teaching with Holocaust Diaries: Voices from the Chasm 199 Amy Simon Strategies for Teaching the Holocaust with Memoirs 213 Jennifer Goss Teaching Holocaust Literature in the Twenty-First Century 228 Victoria Aarons The Grey Zone of Holocaust Education: Teaching with Film 243 Alan S. Marcus Survivor Testimonies and Interviews 261 Margarete Myers Feinstein Teaching with Photographs 275 Valerie HÉbert Teaching the Holocaust in Museums 294 Daniel Greene Memorials, Monuments, and the Obligation of Memory 309 Stuart Abrams Why Should We Teach the Holocaust Today and Tomorrow? 326 Robert Hadley Contributors 341 Index 347
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Propaganda and Persecution
Book SynopsisA magisterial history of the French Resistance during World War II that offers a comprehensive exploration of the most significant issue in that period’s social imaginary: the ‘Jewish question’. Renee Poznanski analyses the discourse around Jews that pervaded the Resistance’s propaganda, while examining the fate of Jews under Vichy and after.Trade Review“RenÉe Poznanski is one of the finest scholars of our time on the subject of France during the Holocaust and World War II. Her central question here—How much did the French Resistance care about Jews and antisemitism?—is timely, and she presents a mountain of evidence to support her thesis.”—Ethan Katz, University of California, Berkeley “This book adds to our understanding of the Resistance, the persecution of the Jews, and the clandestine press in ways likely to make it a fundamental work for future scholarship.”—Holocaust and Genocide StudiesTable of Contents Preface List of Abbreviations Prologue: The Loss of Moral and Ideological Markers 1 The “Jewish Problem” in an Age of Suspicion 2 The Range of Rebuttals Part I. We Are All Patriots 3 The Assault on the Jews 4 Across the Channel, on the Defensive 5 Above All—Don’t Bring Back Blum 6 France Cannot Be Muzzled or Seduced 7 Variations in the Shadow of the Comintern 8 A Careful Choice of Words 9 Christians and Jews, Jews and Resistance Activists Part II. The Curtain Rises 10 “The Springtime of Liberty” 11 The Shock of the Yellow Star 12 Summer 1942: Swings in Public Opinion 13 The Crime of Lèse-Humanité 14 A Plan for Extermination Part III. The Judeo-Gaullists in London 15 Under the Sway of the French Goebbels 16 No One Is Safe from Deportation 17 From London to Algiers Part IV. The Judeo-Bolsheviks of France 18 Variations on Silence 19 The Specter of Philosemitism Part V. The Sense of Being Abandoned 20 All Humanity Rises Up against the Murderers 21 The Earth Didn’t Shake Epilogue: Jewish Voices in a Strange Silence Notes Bibliography Index
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Yale University Press At Memorys Edge AfterImagesof the Holocaust in
Book SynopsisHow should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once committed in its name? James E. Young - the only foreigner and Jew to serve on the German commission to select a design for a national Holocaust memorial - tells the inside story of this controversial project.Trade Review"The brilliance of James Young's theoretical insights is matched by his outstanding knowledge of the vast array of representations of the Shoah and by his artistic and literary sensitivity. At Memory's Edge will become an influential book." Saul Friedlander "Young's book needs no extra boost, and yet this recent debate over the meaning of German nationalism gives his subject another dimension of topicality, proving again how accurately discussions of art can pinpoint all that's buried just beneath the surface of everyday life." Robert Leiter, New York Times Book Review "A beautifully written and illustrated book that tells us something profound about the featured artistic projects and their contexts." Natasha Lehrer, Jewish Quarterly "This book provides for further study of the nature and meanings of memory, and on the way contemporary artists contribute to the broad and growing discussion of what memory is." Jay Winter, Art Bulletin
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Yale University Press After Nuremberg
Book SynopsisHow the American High Commissioner for Germany set in motion a process that resulted in every non-death-row-inmate walking free after the Nuremberg trialsTrade Review2024 Robert E. Dalton Award winner, sponsored by ASIL“In this deeply researched and highly original account, Robert Hutchinson forces us to reconsider our understanding of the American clemency program for convicted war criminals after WWII.”—Devin O. Pendas, Boston College“Robert Hutchinson’s work is a major reevaluation that scholars of Nazi war crimes and international law will not be able to ignore.”—Norman J. W. Goda, author of Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War“In this important book, Robert Hutchinson offers new insight and new evidence about the famous events surrounding clemency to Nazi war criminals. It is a work that both scholars and a general public should definitely read.”—Jeffrey C. Herf, University of Maryland“Essential for anyone interested in the future of international humanitarian law, this book reveals how justice for the victims of Nazi crimes was undermined by those responsible for upholding it.”—Steven P. Remy, author of The Malmedy Massacre: The War Crimes Controversy“Robert Hutchinson’s magisterial book reminds us that everything is political, justice is never blind, and injustice is most dangerous when it cloaks itself in the robes of the law.”—Robert Citino, National World War II Museum
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Holocaust Corporations and the Law
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA terrific combination of fascinating historical detail, clear and accessible political and legal theory, and practical wisdom about an extremely important topic: the transnational Holocaust litigation (THL) brought in American courts in the 1990s using tort law to win reparations for victims. Even those who ultimately disagree with her optimism about THL will have to reckon with this important book."" - Ariela Gross, University of Southern California
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Holocaust Corporations and the Law
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA terrific combination of fascinating historical detail, clear and accessible political and legal theory, and practical wisdom about an extremely important topic: the transnational Holocaust litigation (THL) brought in American courts in the 1990s using tort law to win reparations for victims. Even those who ultimately disagree with her optimism about THL will have to reckon with this important book."" - Ariela Gross, University of Southern California
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Third Reich
Book SynopsisA collection of some of the writing on the diverse aspects of Nazi Germany. This work provides readers with an insight into the different perspectives on traditional understandings of the Third Reich and covers the central aspects of the period, from the rise of the Nazis and the internal organization of the regime, to Germany's role in WWII.Trade Review"The essays are of high quality, written by respected authors, and some are classics." (Times Higher Education Supplement)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Glossary. General Introduction. 1. Rise of the NSDAP. 2. Seizure and Consolidation of Power. 3. Foreign Policy. 4. Economy. 5. Army. 6. Working Class and Volksgemeinschaft (National Community). 7. Police State. 8. Women. 9. Hitler as Dictator. 10. Resistance. 11. Holocaust/Final Solution. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Third Reich
Book Synopsisaeo Comprises 12 seminal articles on Nazi Germany. aeo Covers all major aspects of the period, including the rise of the Nazi party, social and economic change, Hitlera s personality, German public opinion. aeo Developed specifically for use with students, to encourage critical study.Trade Review"The essays are of high quality, written by respected authors, and some are classics." (Times Higher Education Supplement)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Glossary. General Introduction. 1. Rise of the NSDAP. 2. Seizure and Consolidation of Power. 3. Foreign Policy. 4. Economy. 5. Army. 6. Working Class and Volksgemeinschaft (National Community). 7. Police State. 8. Women. 9. Hitler as Dictator. 10. Resistance. 11. Holocaust/Final Solution. Index.
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Princeton University Press The Right Wrong Man
Book SynopsisIn 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk's legal odyssey began in 1975, when American investigators received evidence alleging that the Cleveland autoworker and naturalizeTrade Review"The case of [Demjanjuk] the death camp guard turned autoworker, related with authority and clarity."--New York Times Book Review "Douglas relates with authority and clarity the story of these complex legal processes... [He] does justice to both the story's factual complexities and its moral and political conundrums...The Right Wrong Man, from its summary title to its thoughtful postscript is an impressive work, as well as a timely one in its demonstration of the power of legal systems to learn from past missteps."--Anthony Julius, New York Times Book Review "A masterful account... Douglas deftly delivers disquisitions on nuanced legal questions as if they were plot points in a thriller, making his demanding book a pleasure."--Wall Street Journal"A tour de force owing to Douglas' piercing analysis of all the legal complexities."--Foreign Affairs"[An] admirable book... Douglas's narrative and analysis of this convoluted legal odyssey [is] extraordinarily impressive."--Christopher R. Browning, Times Literary Supplement "[M]asterful... [D]eftly delivers disquisitions on nuanced legal questions as if they were plot points in a thriller, making his demanding book a pleasure even for readers unschooled in the particulars of international law."--The Wall Street Journal "As Holocaust historian Lawrence Douglas has written, the Eichmann proceedings were the 'Great Holocaust Trial,' an unparalleled reckoning with the universal moral burden of the Nazi regime and its crimes. But what came--what could possibly come--after Eichmann? This is the question that guides Douglas's new book, The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial... By Douglas's account, the Demjanjuk affair was a tumultuous encapsulation of much of the post-Eichmann politics of international justice, shaped as they were by the wax and wane of European communism, the creation of a nascent global architecture of legal accountability for atrocities perpetrated both during the Holocaust and elsewhere, and the global process of coming to terms with Europe's violent past."--Daniel Solomon, The New Republic "An excellent legal-minded elucidation of the long trail toward the conviction of a notorious concentration camp guard."--Kirkus "[A] story that needed telling."--Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times "Sophisticated and suspenseful, the book provides a trenchant analysis of the legal and moral dilemmas surrounding trials for genocidal crimes against humanity."--Glenn Altschuler, Jerusalem Post "[A] tour de force."--Foreign Affairs "The Right Wrong Man is an important read about the accountability those who do wrong ultimately face."--San Francisco Book Review "Formidable ... a thoughtful treatise."--Cleveland Jewish Star "In his indispensable history of the Demjanjuk case, Lawrence Douglas, the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College, delivers a reader-friendly history of this controversial case that provides a valuable understanding of how German law evolved from eschewing the legal principles established by the Nuremberg Tribunal to the 2011 Demjanjuk case, which marked the first time a German court had ever tried, let alone convicted, 'one of the thousands of auxiliaries who served as foot soldiers of Nazi genocide.'"--Jack Fischel, Jewish Book Council "A perceptive and thought-provoking analysis... The story told by Lawrence Douglas in The Right Wrong Man is a vital part of that narrative of barbarism [and] a remorselessly fascinating account of the longest trial of any defendant accused of Nazi crimes."--Oliver Kamm, Jewish Chronicle "[A] thoughtful treatise."--Arnold Ages, Chicago Jewish Star "Lawrence Douglas's immensely readable book absorbs the reader in the twists and turns of the Demjanjuk saga, helping us understand both why justice required prosecuting Demjanjuk for his 'egregious moral complicity,' and how the job got done."--Kevin P. Spicer, CommonwealTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 1 The Beginning of the End of Something 17 2 John in America 26 3 Ivan in Israel 68 4 Demjanjuk Redux 109 5 Demjanjuk in Munich 137 6 Was damals Recht war ... 161 7 Memory into History 194 8 The Trial by History 216 9 The Right Wrong Man 247 Postscript 258 Acknowledgments 261 Notes 263 Sources 299 Index 321
£26.60
Princeton University Press The Hand of Compassion Portraits of Moral Choice
Book SynopsisPresenting interviews with five ordinary people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, this title focuses on a question at the heart of ethics: Why do people risk their lives for strangers and what drives such moral choice? It offers a counterpoint to conventional arguments about rational choice.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2005 Robert E. Lane Award, Division of Political Psychology, American Political Science Association Honorable Mention for the 2005 Giovanni Sartori Book Award, Qualitative Methods Section of the American Political Science Association "The Hand of Compassion is a compelling and powerful read, a terrific book filled with moving narratives of risk, loss, and sadness, and at the same time, the rescuers' affirmation that all human beings deserve the right to decent treatment. It is an analysis that takes social and political theory out of the text and places the reader in the midst of human suffering and courage."--James M. Glass, Perspectives on Politics "Approximately two-thirds of this volume is devoted to personal narratives of five rescuers, based on interviews conducted by Monroe. The autobiographies of the rescuers are substantial additions to the body of Holocaust testimony. To her credit, Monroe is an unobtrusive interviewer and a light-handed editor who allows the stories to unfold in illuminating detail."--ChoiceTable of ContentsPREFACE ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv Stories That Are True 1 CHAPTER ONE: Margot 9 CHAPTER TWO: Otto 55 CHAPTER THREE: John 101 CHAPTER FOUR: Irene 139 CHAPTER FIVE: Knud 165 CHAPTER SIX: The Complexity of the Moral Life and: the Power of Identity to Influence Choice 187 CHAPTER SEVEN: How Identity and Perspective Led to Moral Choice 211 CHAPTER EIGHT: What Makes People Help Others: Constructing Moral Theory 239 A Different Way of Seeing Things 257 APPENDIX A: Narratives as Windows on the Minds of Others 267 APPENDIX B: Finding the Rescuers 287 NOTES 291 BIBLIOGRAPHY 331 INDEX 355
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Princeton University Press Jews Germans and Allies
Book SynopsisTraces the conflicting ways Jews and Germans defined their own victimization and survival, comprehended the trauma of war and genocide, and struggled to rebuild their lives. This book describes Berlin in the days following Germany's surrender. It examines how Germans and Jews interacted and competed for Allied favor, benefits, and victim status.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2008 George L. Mosse Prize, American Historical Association Winner of the 2006 Fraenkel Prize in Category A, Wiener Library "Atina Grossmann's great insight is that the postwar reappearance of a traumatized Jewish population--and the survivors' high rates of marriage, pregnancy and childbearing--cannot be understood apart from the parallel victimhood of the 'German' population."--Paul Grant, Books & Culture "Grossmann has succeeded marvelously in reintegrating the history of Jews into the history of postwar Germany. Her book ... is an essential contribution to the social and cultural history of the immediate postwar era."--Benjamin Lapp, Central European History "Grossmann, herself the daughter of German-Jewish refugees, ... has written the definitive history of [Allied-occupied Germany]."--Jewish Post and News "Atina Grossman has written an exceptionally fascinating book... Atina Grossman has done us all a great service."--Julia Schulze Wessel, Shofar "Atina Grossman's tale of the complicated relationship between surviving Jews, Germans, and Allies is enthralling and well written. The author has an eye for the telling anecdote and genuine sympathy for the people she writes about. Her extensive and creative use of German and Yiddish sources and her family connections to the Jewish DPs make the book both personal and scholarly."--Hal Elliott Wert, Journal of Military History "Despite legend and conventional wisdom, there was intense interaction between Jews and Germans. Germans and Jews have both overlooked or forgotten this episode in their joint history, which Grossmann brings to life with a particularly fascinating examination of gendered experience and sexuality."--Jay Howard Geller, American Historical Review "This book makes a significant contribution by illuminating the fascinating and complex interactions between surviving Jews and their neighbors in postwar Germany."--Timothy Schroer, H-Net Reviews "Any historian with even the vaguest idea of the monumental effort that goes into producing a research monograph like this, with thousands of archival and secondary sources used (the notes alone run to some 100 pages), will find it difficult to level serious criticism against it. Thoroughly researched and beautifully written, Jews, Germans, and Allies has rightfully won a number of awards."--Kay Schiller, European History Quarterly "Jews, Germans, and Allies is an important historical document, especially in light of those revisionists who would impose a universal amnesia about the suffering and losses incurred during the Holocaust. The grim statistics that Ms. Grossmann presents in her carefully researched and well-organized book carry evidence of the terrible truth. But the testimony of the survivors she quotes contains the final, ineradicable facts of history."--Hilma Wolitzer, East Hampton Star "[Grossmann] has achieved that most enviable of goals: she has written a book about Jewish/non-Jewish relations that will be required reading for any scholar of German postwar history for many years to come. Indeed, I would go as far as to suggest that Grossmann's Jews, Germans, and Allies is one of those few books that appear in each decade that will be read with considerable benefit and enjoyment not only by historians of any specialization but also by any scholar with an arts and humanities or social science background and a smattering of historical sensitivity."--Lars Fischer, Journal of Modern History "All told, Grossmann's book paints a fascinating portrait of the 'close encounters' in occupied Germany among Jews, Germans, and Allies. Her gendered lens helps better nuance our understanding of this chaotic period. I highly recommend this book for scholars, students, and the general public."--Lynn Rapaport, Holocaust and Genocide Studies "A pioneering and innovative study that will undoubtedly stimulate work in the fields of German and Jewish post-war history in the coming years."--Shirli Gilbert, Patterns of PrejudiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface: Where Is Feldafing? xiii Abbreviations xvii INTRODUCTION: Entangled Histories and Close Encounters 1 CHAPTER ONE: "Poor Germany": Berlin and the Occupation 15 CHAPTER TWO: Gendered Defeat: Rape, Motherhood, and Fraternization 48 CHAPTER THREE: "The survivors were few and the dead were many": Jews in Occupied Berlin 88 CHAPTER FOUR: The Saved and Saving Remnant: Jewish Displaced Persons in the American Zone 131 CHAPTER FIVE: Mir Zaynen Do: Sex, Work, and the DP Baby Boom 184 CHAPTER SIX: Conclusion: The "Interregnum" Ends 237 Abbreviations in Notes 269 Notes 271 Select Bibliography 359 Acknowledgments 369 Index 373
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Princeton University Press From Guilt to Shame Auschwitz and After 2021
Book SynopsisWhy has shame displaced guilt as a dominant emotional reference in the West? This book presents a genealogical-critical study of the vicissitudes of the concept of survivor guilt and the significance of guilt's replacement by shame.Trade Review"Ruth Leys's new book is a brilliant interdisciplinary investigation of a striking cultural transformation. From Guilt to Shame is original, with a compelling subject treated in a way that places it on the cutting edge of recent science and cultural studies."—Toril Moi, Duke University"From Guilt to Shame is original and incisive, and Leys's exposition of her provocative thesis is thoroughly persuasive. The superb chapter on Giorgio Agamben is the perfect conclusion to this excellent work, which should attract interest from readers of trauma theory, the history of traumatic stress, comparative literature, moral philosophy, and Holocaust studies."—Allan Young, McGill UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION: From Guilt to Shame 1 CHAPTER ONE: Survivor Guilt 17 The Slap 17 She Demanded to Be Killed Herself and Bitten to Death 24 Identification with the Aggressor 32 Survivor Guilt 38 The Dead 47 CHAPTER TWO: Dismantling Survivor Guilt 56 "Radical Nakedness" 56 The Survivor as Witness 61 Dramaturgies of the Self 68 The Subject of Imitation 76 Psychoanalytic Revisions 83 CHAPTER THREE: Image and Trauma 93 Imagery and PTSD 93 Miscellaneous Symptoms 99 Stress Films 106 PTSD and Shame 118 CHAPTER FOUR: Shame Now 123 Shame's Revival 123 Shame and Specularity 126 Shame and the Self 129 Autotelism 133 The Evidence 137 Objectless Emotions 145 The Primacy of Personal Differences 150 Posthistoricism 154 CHAPTER FIVE: The Shame of Auschwitz 157 The Gray Zone 157 "That Match Is Never Over" 162 The Matter of Testimony 165 Shame 170 The Flush 174 Conclusion 180 Appendix 187 Index 193
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Princeton University Press Hitlers American Model
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A small book, but powerful all out of proportion to its size in exposing a shameful history."--Kirkus "Interesting and eye opening... In spite of the Nazis' disdain, to put it mildly, for our stated and evident liberal and democratic principles, they eagerly looked to the United States as the prime example for their own goals of protecting the blood, restricting citizenship, and banning mixed marriages. Reading this book could make many Americans doubt the possibility of ever forming a more perfect union with such a legacy."--Thomas McClung, New York Journal of Books "The admiration for American immigration policy expressed in Mein Kampf was not a passing thought on the day's news ... Nor a one-off remark. Its place in the full context of Nazi theory and practice comes into view in Hitler's American Model... Many people will take the very title as an affront. But it's the historical reality the book discloses that proves much harder to digest. The author does not seem prone to sensationalism. The argument is made in two succinct, cogent and copiously documented chapters, prefaced and followed with remarks that remain within the cooler temperatures of expressed opinion."--Scott McLemee, InsideHigherEd.com "Stunningly well-timed."--Tim Stanley, Daily Telegraph "[This] new history argues convincingly that institutionalized racism and common-law pragmatism in the United States inspired Hitler's policies... Historians have downplayed the connection between Nazi race law and America because America was mainly interested in denying full citizenship rights to blacks rather than Jews. But Whitman's adroit scholarly detective work has proved that in the mid-'30s Nazi jurists and politicians turned again and again to the way the United States had deprived African-Americans of the right to vote and to marry whites. They were fascinated by the way the United States had turned millions of people into second-class citizens."--David Mikics, Tablet Magazine "Whitman argues convincingly that American jurisprudence-federal and state alike-provided both inspiration and a model for the most radical Nazi lawyers."--Matthew Harwood, Reason "Hitler's American Model is overall, an erudite, well-researched, and thought-provoking study that raises important questions about America's laws - and leaders - in the not-so-distant past."--Rafael Medoff, Haaretz "In Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, James Whitman ... makes a stunning and unsettling claim about the Nuremberg Laws."--Glen Altschuler, Jerusalem Post "Through intensive scrutiny of German language transcripts and other primary sources that he translated himself, Yale Law School professor James Whitman develops a story in Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law of unintended American inspiration for the infamous Nazi anti-Jewish laws. It's a story that will shock readers."--David Wecht, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Eerie... [Whitman] illustrates how German propagandists sought to normalize the Nazi agenda domestically by putting forth the United States as a model."--Brent Staples, New York Times "In his startling new history, Whitman traces the substantial influence of American race laws on the Third Reich. The book, in effect, is a portrait of the United States assembled from the admiring notes of Nazi lawmakers, who routinely referenced American policies in the design of their own racist regime... Whitman's book contributes to a growing recognition of American influences on Nazi thought."--Jeff Guo, Washington PostTable of ContentsA Note on Translations ix Introduction 1 1 Making Nazi Flags and Nazi Citizens 17 The First Nuremberg Law: Of New York Jews and Nazi Flags 19 The Second Nuremberg Law: Making Nazi Citizens 29 America: The Global Leader in Racist Immigration Law 34 American Second-Class Citizenship 37 The Nazis Pick Up the Thread 43 Toward the Citizenship Law: Nazi Politics in the Early 1930s 48 The Nazis Look to American Second-Class Citizenship 59 Conclusion 69 2 Protecting Nazi Blood and Nazi Honor 73 Toward the Blood Law: Battles in the Streets and the Ministries 81 Battles in the Streets: The Call for "Unambiguous Laws" 81 Battles in the Ministries: The Prussian Memorandum and the American Example 83 Conservative Juristic Resistance: Gurtner and Losener 87 The Meeting of June 5, 1934 93 The Sources of Nazi Knowledge of American Law 113 Evaluating American Influence 124 Defining "Mongrels": The One-Drop Rule and the Limits of American Influence 127 Conclusion 132 America through Nazi Eyes 132 America's Place in the Global History of Racism 137 Nazism and American Legal Culture 146 Acknowledgments 163 Notes 165 Suggestions for Further Reading 197 Index 201
£20.90
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Holocaust versus Wehrmacht How Hitlers Final
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Black Hole of Auschwitz
Book SynopsisThe Black Hole of Auschwitz brings together Levi's writings on the Holocaust and his experiences of the concentration camp, as well as those on his own accidental status as a writer and his chosen profession of chemist.Trade Review"One of the most important and gifted writers of our time." Italo CalvinoTable of ContentsThrough the Looking Glass: Preface to the Italian Edition. Note to the Texts. PART I: THE BLACK HOLE OF AUSCHWITZ. 1. Deportees. Anniversary. 2. The Monument at Auschwitz. 3. ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’. 4. The Time of Swastikas. 5. Preface to the German Edition of If This is a Man. 6. Preface to the School Edition of the Truce. 7. Resistance in the Camps. 8. Preface to Y. Katzenelson’s The Song of the Murdered Jewish People. 9. Note to the Theatre Version of If This is a Man. 10. Preface to L.Poliakov’s Auschwitz. 11. To the Young: Preface to If This a Man. 12. A Past We Thought Would Never Return. 13. Preface to J. Presser’s The Night of the Girondins. 14. Films and Swastikas. 15. Letter to Latanzio: ‘Resign’. 16. Women to the Slaughter. 17. So That the SS do not Return. 18. It began with Kristallnacht. 19. Jean Améry, Philosopher and Suicide. 20. But We Were There. 21. Concentration Camp at Italy’s Door. 22. No Return to the Holocausts of the Past (Nazi. Massacres, Crowds and the TV). 23. Images of Holocaust. 24. Europe in Hell. 25. Anne Frank, the Voice of History. 26. Seekers of Lies to Deny the Holocaust. 27. To the Visitor. 28. You Tell Me if This is Fortunate Jew. 29. The Pharaoh with the Swastika. 30. Preface to H. Langbein’s People in Auschwitz. 31. Why See These Images Again?. 32. Preface to R. Höss’s Commadant of Aushwitz. 33. The Black Hole of Auschwitz. 34. Preface to La vita offesa. 35. To Our Generation. PART II: OTHER PEOPLE’S TRADES. 36. The Writer Who is Not a Writer. 37. Racial Intolerance. 38. Preface to L. Caglioti’s I due volti della chimica (The. Two Faces of Chemistry). 39. We See No Other Adam in the Neighbourhood. 40. Horseshoe Nails. 41. Let’s See How Much has Come True. 42. Our First Ancestors were Not Animals. 43. Collectors of Torments. 44. Brute Force. 45. Note to Franz Kafka’s The Trial. 46. Asymmetry and Life. 47. Preface to Jews in Turin. 48. Itinerary of a Jewish Writer. 49. With the Key of Science. 50. Preface to The Jews of Eastern Europe. 51. What was it that Burned Up in Space?. 52. The Plague has No Frontiers. 53. The Community of Venice and its Ancient Cemetery. 54. The Philosopher-Engineer and his Forbidden Dreams. 55. Guest of Captain Nemo. Index of Names.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Revisiting the Jewish Question
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be Jewish? What is an anti-Semite? Why does the enigmatic identity of the men who founded the first monotheistic religion arouse such passions? We need to return to the Jewish question.Trade Review"If, as Joyce wrote, history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake, this is even truer of the 'Jewish question' – a nightmare made up of myths and prejudice leading to anti-Semitism and to ancient but persistent wars of religion, such as those opposing Arabs and Israelis. By adopting a French focus when revisiting these issues as treated by Marx, Freud, Sartre and Arendt, Roudinesco brilliantly cleans the picture of its fog of obfuscation. Thanks to her intimate knowledge of the facts and actors, we are shown a path to a new understanding; hopefully, it will lead to an awakening." Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania "Élisabeth Roudinesco probes the toxic topic of Jew-hatred, ancient, mediaeval and newer, and of modern political anti-Semitism, trying to draw a clear distinction between them; adding to this, she analyses the recent phenomenon – of a totally different character – of anti-Zionism and/or the legitimate criticism of the State of Israel and its politics. The outcome is courageous and timely in its argument for universal and enlightened jewishness; it also offers a highly rich and diverse reading which is full of compelling twists and unexpected, refreshing deliberations." Idith Zertal, University of BaselTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Introduction 1 1 Our First Parents 6 2 The Shadow of the Camps and the Smoke of the Ovens 26 3 Promised Land, Conquered Land 49 4 Universal Jew, Territorial Jew 68 5 Genocide between Memory and Negation 93 6 A Great and Destructive Madness 124 7 Inquisitorial Figures 151 Notes 186 Index 232
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Revisiting the Jewish Question
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be Jewish? What is an anti-Semite? Why does the enigmatic identity of the men who founded the first monotheistic religion arouse such passions? We need to return to the Jewish question.Trade Review"If, as Joyce wrote, history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake, this is even truer of the 'Jewish question' – a nightmare made up of myths and prejudice leading to anti-Semitism and to ancient but persistent wars of religion, such as those opposing Arabs and Israelis. By adopting a French focus when revisiting these issues as treated by Marx, Freud, Sartre and Arendt, Roudinesco brilliantly cleans the picture of its fog of obfuscation. Thanks to her intimate knowledge of the facts and actors, we are shown a path to a new understanding; hopefully, it will lead to an awakening." Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania "Élisabeth Roudinesco probes the toxic topic of Jew-hatred, ancient, mediaeval and newer, and of modern political anti-Semitism, trying to draw a clear distinction between them; adding to this, she analyses the recent phenomenon – of a totally different character – of anti-Zionism and/or the legitimate criticism of the State of Israel and its politics. The outcome is courageous and timely in its argument for universal and enlightened jewishness; it also offers a highly rich and diverse reading which is full of compelling twists and unexpected, refreshing deliberations." Idith Zertal, University of BaselTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Introduction 1 1 Our First Parents 6 2 The Shadow of the Camps and the Smoke of the Ovens 26 3 Promised Land, Conquered Land 49 4 Universal Jew, Territorial Jew 68 5 Genocide between Memory and Negation 93 6 A Great and Destructive Madness 124 7 Inquisitorial Figures 151 Notes 186 Index 232
£17.09
Cornell University Press Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany
Book SynopsisIn this an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s, Sonja Boos demonstrates that these speakers both facilitated and subverted the construction of a public discourse about the Holocaust in postwar West Germany.Trade Review"Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is a well-honed, meticulously researched, and theoretically grounded study of public speeches that sought to intervene into the memory culture of postwar West Germany. By considering a wide range of sources, Sonja Boos manages to establish the public speech as a genre in its own right, one that became crucial in challenging the biases and blind spots of West German Vergangenheitsbewälitgung. Indeed, Boos's book confers upon the public speech an entirely new status in the study of postwar German culture, history, and memory. From political to psychoanalytical theory, from discourse analysis to memory studies, Boos brings a range of theoretical approaches to bear in her insightful readings of the speeches at hand. The successful integration of classical rhetoric, speech act theory, and public sphere theory in Boos's theoretical framework is particularly laudable." -- Katja Garloff, Reed College"This is an ambitious and important book. Sonja Boos displays extensive familiarity with the early cultural history of West Germany, presenting a valuable series of snapshots of intellectual life there through the mid-1960s, focusing on the engagement of public intellectuals in memory of the Holocaust. Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany offers complex and insightful analyses of these interventions." -- Russell A. Berman, Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: An Archimedean PodiumPart I. In the Event of Speech: Performing Dialogue 1. Martin Buber 2. Paul Celan 3. Ingeborg BachmannPart II. "Who One Is": Self-Revelation and Its Discontents 4. Hannah Arendt 5. Uwe JohnsonPart III. Speaking by Proxy: The Citation as Testimony 6. Peter Szondi 7. Peter WeissConclusion: Speaking of the Noose in the Country of the Hangman (Theodor W. Adorno)Bibliography Index
£97.20
Cornell University Press The Era of the Witness
Book SynopsisWhat is the role of survivor testimony in Holocaust remembrance? Today such recollections are considered among the most compelling and important historical sources we have, but this has not always been true. In The Era of the Witness, a concise...Trade Review"Wieviorka retraces the evolution of the figure of the Holocaust witness and analyzes the different, and sometimes competing, uses of Holocaust testimonies, with the rigor and clarity that perfectly suits her subject."—Le Monde"A reflection on the production of Holocaust testimonies, their evolution in time, and their part in the construction of the collective memory."—Libération"Written by one of France's leading historians of the Holocaust, The Era of the Witness is a fascinating and readable exploration of the emergence of survivor testimony into the public sphere. Annette Wieviorka's provocative yet sensitive account will be of interest to all who are concerned with the legacies of the Holocaust and other traumatic histories. Jared Stark's beautiful translation makes this essential work accessible to a new audience."—Michael Rothberg, author of Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation and coeditor of The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings"This book on witnessing itself bears witness to a close, careful, and often difficult engagement with a vast array of testimonies in different genres and media. It raises the question of how empathy and unsettlement provoked by testimonies may be combined with resistance to a cult of intimacy, a confusion of empathy with identification, and an impairment of the critical perspective necessary for writing history."—Dominick LaCapra, Cornell University, author of History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory
£20.89
Cornell University Press Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany
Book SynopsisSpeaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s. Through close readings of canonical speeches by Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin Buber, Paul Celan, Uwe Johnson, Peter Szondi, and Peter Weiss, Sonja Boos demonstrates that these speakers both facilitated and subverted the construction of a public discourse about the Holocaust in postwar West Germany. The author's analysis of original audio recordings of the speech events (several of which will be available on a companion website) improves our understanding of the spoken, performative dimension of public speeches. Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany emphasizes the social constructedness of discourse, experience, and identity, but does not neglect the pragmatic conditions of aesthetic and intellectual productionmost notably, the felt need to respond to Trade Review"Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is a well-honed, meticulously researched, and theoretically grounded study of public speeches that sought to intervene into the memory culture of postwar West Germany. By considering a wide range of sources, Sonja Boos manages to establish the public speech as a genre in its own right, one that became crucial in challenging the biases and blind spots of West German Vergangenheitsbewälitgung. Indeed, Boos's book confers upon the public speech an entirely new status in the study of postwar German culture, history, and memory. From political to psychoanalytical theory, from discourse analysis to memory studies, Boos brings a range of theoretical approaches to bear in her insightful readings of the speeches at hand. The successful integration of classical rhetoric, speech act theory, and public sphere theory in Boos's theoretical framework is particularly laudable." -- Katja Garloff, Reed College"This is an ambitious and important book. Sonja Boos displays extensive familiarity with the early cultural history of West Germany, presenting a valuable series of snapshots of intellectual life there through the mid-1960s, focusing on the engagement of public intellectuals in memory of the Holocaust. Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany offers complex and insightful analyses of these interventions." -- Russell A. Berman, Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: An Archimedean PodiumPart I. In the Event of Speech: Performing Dialogue 1. Martin Buber 2. Paul Celan 3. Ingeborg BachmannPart II. "Who One Is": Self-Revelation and Its Discontents 4. Hannah Arendt 5. Uwe JohnsonPart III. Speaking by Proxy: The Citation as Testimony 6. Peter Szondi 7. Peter WeissConclusion: Speaking of the Noose in the Country of the Hangman (Theodor W. Adorno)Bibliography Index
£27.54
Cornell University Press Representing the Holocaust
Book SynopsisIn a series of essays—three published here for the first time—LaCapra explores the problems faced by historians, critics, and thinkers who attempt to grasp the Holocaust.Trade ReviewRepresenting the Holocaust is a probing analysis of the relations between historiographical, personal, and cultural identity formation in the aftermath of the historical trauma of the Holocaust. -- John E. Toews * American Historical Review *Dominick LaCapra may be the most original intellectual historian writing in America today. LaCapra begins, in this book, to provide a means by which one can critically examine the engagement of the historian/critic with his or her object of study. -- Sander L. Gilman * Modern Philology *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Canons, Texts, and Contexts 2. Reflections on the Historians' Debate 3. Historicizing the Holocaust 4. Paul de Man as Object of Transference 5. Heidegger's Nazi Tum 6. The Return of the Historically Repressed Conclusion: Acting-Out and Working-Through
£24.69
Johns Hopkins University Press Cleansing the Fatherland
Book SynopsisAgainst this background, Cleansing the Fatherland sends a stark message that is difficult to ignore.Trade ReviewThanks to the work of Aly and his associates, those areas of medical criminality that escaped the retribution the Allies visited on the more obviously ghoulish experimenters... have at long last come out of the shadows. -- Michael Burleigh Times Higher Education Supplement The gruesome medical experiments that Cleansing the Fatherland describes... were exposed during the Nuremberg doctors trials of 1946-47. But the book also contains annotated selections from the diaries of German anatomist Hermann Voss [which] offer a long look into the mind of a German medical scientist who by 1964 was widely regarded as 'the most influential and respected anatomist in East Germany' even though he had spent the war years dissecting unmistakably murdered bodies. Lingua Franca
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MY - University of Toronto Press Arduous Tasks
Book SynopsisIn Arduous Tasks, Lina N. Insana demonstrates how translation functions as a metaphor for the transmission of Holocaust testimony and broadens the parameters of survivor testimony.Trade Review'Insana's book provides a brilliant and exceptionally well-researched set of case studies that take up Levi's preoccupation with translation throughout the arc of his career as a writer and his concern that, as a translator, he was making himself and the world more vulnerable to further violence.' -- Michael Bernard-Donals: Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol 25:01:2011 'The book is well argued and offers new perspectives on Levi's literary writing as a survivor of and witness of the Holocaust... Arduous Task provides translators and scholars of translation studies alike with novel insights in the two-way transformation that takes place any time interpretation of the other is complicated by experiential or textual traumas.' -- Valerio Ferme Italian Culture - vol 32:01:2014
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