The Holocaust Books

Book SynopsisProvides a detailed analysis of the path of anti-Semitism that led to the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust in RomaniaTrade Review"This monumental work is a scholarly witnessing to be admired."—Michael N. Dobkowski, Jewish Book World"The book has a wealth of details and is very informative. Professional historians as well as casual readers should take note of this book and make it a starting point in their quest to delve further into the mystery of the Holocaust in Romania."—Michael Gesin, H-Net"The wealth of information included in this tome and the superior organization and presentation makes it a must for any Judaica library with a Holocaust collection, whether a basic collection, or a rich, academically focused one."—Michlean Amir, Association of Jewish Libraries newsletterTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsForeword to the Hebrew EditionEditors' NoteIntroduction1. The Goga Government: Europe's Second Antisemitic Government, 28 December 1937-10 February 19382. King Carol II's Dictatorship and Its Policy toward the Jews, February 1938-August 19403. The Rhinocerization of the Romanian Intelligentsia4. The Romanian Orthodox Church and Its Attitude toward the "Jewish Problem"5. The Nazi Influence on Romanian Political Life and Its Effect on the Situation of the Jews6. Pogroms and Persecutions in the Summer of 19407. The National-Legionary State8. Romanization9. Legionary Terror10. The Confrontation between Antonescu and the Legionnaires and Its Impact on the Situation of the Jews11. The Legionnaires' Rebellion and the Bucharest Pogrom, 21-23 January 194112. The Jewish Leadership under the National-Legionary Regime13. The Political and Ideological Foundations of the Antonescu Regime14. The Government's Attitude toward the Jews15. Romanization (II)16. The Antonescu Regime and the Final Solution, 1941-4217. The Romanian Solution to the Jewish Problem in Bessarabia and Bukovina, June-July 194118. The Camps and Ghettos in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, September-November 194119. The Kishinev Ghetto20. Czernowitz21. Southern Bukovina22. The Dorohoi District23. The National Bank of Romania24. Transnistria under Romanian Occupation25. The Arrest and Deportation of Jews in Transnistria26. "The Kingdom of Death"27. Odessa28. The Berezovka District29. The Typhus Epidemic30. The Hunt for Residents of Jewish Blood31. The Romanian Church and the Christianization Campaign32. The Degradation of Judaism and Jews33. The Iasi Pogrom, 29 June 194134. The Antonescu Regime and the Final Solution in the Regat and Southern Transylvania35. Toward the Implementation of the Final Solution36. The Postponement of the Nazi Final Solution37. The Jews of the Regat and Southern Transylvania in the Shadow of the Final Solution38. Statistical Data on the Holocaust in RomaniaNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores the memory of the Holocaust and the Jewish past in post-communist Eastern EuropeTrade Review"This pioneering work in the field of Holocaust studies should be a part of any library with even the most modest of holdings about the Shoah."—David M. Crowe, Journal of Interdisciplinary History"The manner in which Nazi-occupied nations have responded to the Holocaust since the fall of communism is a subject of no small importance. Fortunately, Bringing The Dark Past To Light addresses this topic seriously and comprehensively."—Sheldon Kirshner, Times of Israel "A remarkable collection."—Kelly McFall, New Books in Genocide Studies"This is a magnificent work of scholarship. The essays in this substantial book provide models of balance and rectitude."—Patterns of Prejudice“An excellent collection that addresses a very timely topic and fills a real gap in our knowledge. It will be of interest not only to specialists on the Holocaust but also to anyone—specialist and nonspecialist alike—interested in the issues and problems of postcommunist Europe.”—Samuel Kassow, professor of history at Trinity College and author of Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto “An extraordinary volume and a feat of editorial ingenuity. . . . No matter what you know or think about contemporary Europe and the politics of Holocaust memory, you will be enlightened and surprised by this remarkable book.”—Doris L. Bergen, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto, and author of War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction John-Paul Himka and Joanna Beata Michlic1. "Our Conscience Is Clean": Albanian Elites and the Memory of the Holocaust in Postsocialist Albania Daniel Perez2. The Invisible Genocide: The Holocaust in Belarus Per Anders Rudling3. Contemporary Responses to the Holocaust in Bosnia and Herzegovina Francine Friedman4. Debating the Fate of Bulgarian Jews during World War II Joseph Benatov5. Representations of the Holocaust and Historical Debates in Croatia since 1989 Mark Biondich6. The Sheep of Lidice: The Holocaust and the Construction of Czech National History Michal Frankl7. Victim of History: Perceptions of the Holocaust in Estonia Anton Weiss-Wendt8. Holocaust Remembrance in the German Democratic Republic--and Beyond Peter Monteath9. The Memory of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Hungary Part 1: The Politics of Holocaust Memory Paul Hanebrink Part 2: Cinematic Memory of the Holocaust Catherine Portuges10. The Transformation of Holocaust Memory in Post-Soviet Latvia Bella Zisere11. Conflicting Memories: The Reception of the Holocaust in Lithuania Saulius Sužiedlis and Šarūnas Liekis12. The Combined Legacies of the "Jewish Question" and the "Macedonian Question" Holly Case13. Public Discourses on the Holocaust in Moldova: Justification, Instrumentalization, and Mourning Vladimir Solonari14. The Memory of the Holocaust in Post-1989 Poland: Renewal--Its Accomplishments and Its Powerlessness Joanna B. Michlic and Małgorzata Melchior15. Public Perceptions of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Romania Felicia Waldman and Mihai Chioveanu16. The Reception of the Holocaust in Russia: Silence, Conspiracy, and Glimpses of Light Klas-Göran Karlsson17. Between Marginalization and Instrumentalization: Holocaust Memory in Serbia since the Late 1980s Jovan Byford18. The "Unmasterable Past"? The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Slovakia Nina Paulovičová19. On the Periphery: Jews, Slovenes, and the Memory of the Holocaust Gregor Joseph Kranjc20. The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Ukraine John-Paul HimkaConclusion Omer BartovContributors Index

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Book SynopsisRevealing primary documents on the crucial origins of the Nazi concentration camp system in the prewar years between 1933 and 1939.Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Prewar Nazi Concentration CampsTranslator's NoteList of Abbreviations1. The Early Camps, 1933-1934 1.1. The Nazi Regime and the Camps 1.2. Life and Death Inside 1.3. The Prisoners 1.4. The Camps and the Public2. The SS Concentration Camp System 2.1. Heinrich Himmler and the Creation of the SS Camp System 2.2. Ways into the Concentration Camps 2.3. The Camps in the Nazi Web of Terror 2.4. The SS Economy and the Camps3. Running the Camps 3.1. Theodor Eicke and the Concentration Camps 3.2. The Leaders of the Camp SS 3.3. Rank-and-File Guards4. Life and Death in the Camps 4.1. Daily Rituals and General Conditions 4.2. Self-Assertion 4.3. Violence and Punishment5. Prisoner Groups 5.1. Prisoner Categories 5.2. Political Prisoners 5.3. Social Outsiders 5.4. Jews 5.5. Women6. The Camps and the Public 6.1. The Camps in Nazi Propaganda 6.2. Foreign Views on the Camps 6.3. The Camps and German SocietyTimelineAppendix A: Daily Inmate Numbers in SS Concentration Camps, 19351939Appendix B: SS Ranks and Equivalents in the Wehrmacht and the U.S. ArmyNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisHow does a nation - how do successor generations, moral beings - overcome a bloody past? How do we judge the bystanders, collaborators, perpetrators, rescuers, and ourselves? These are the questions Ellen Cassedy confronts in We Are Here, one woman's exploration of Lithuania's Jewish history combined with a personal exploration of her own family's place in it.Trade Review“Pioneering. . . . [We Are Here] will reach out to . . . all those who care about not replaying in this new century the disasters of the century that has just ended.”—Michael Steinlauf, author of Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust“This eloquent book can help us to reach out, open our hearts, and rediscover one another in a spirit of mutual understanding.”—Hon. Valdas Adamkus, former president of Lithuania“A most captivating read. Cassedy offers an extraordinary perspective, human and moving, to concerns that often are hidden by tired clichés, sentimentality, or anger. A rare document.”—Samuel Bak, survivor of the Vilna ghetto and author of Painted in Words"Uncovering this history with an intimate, personal and investigative approach, Cassedy explores how the people of this country, Jews and non-Jews, are confronting their marred past and moving onward."—Jerusalem Post"All answers are tentative. All questions are crucial. Cassedy's quest is brilliantly balanced, totally engaging, and constantly penetrating."—Philip K. Jason, Jewish Book World"Ellen Cassedy's We Are Here challenges us to think again about what it means to remember the Holocaust in the present. . . . The struggle Cassedy so eloquently engages in to resist the logic of competing memory may be only that much more urgent today than when she was there."—Laura Levitt, H NetTable of ContentsPreparationsPart 1. Mir zaynen doHere, on This SpotThe Nazi EraThe Soviet EraThe BystanderPart 2. Mes Dar EsameOur Goal Is to Transform OurselvesAn Indelible Memory and an Unhealing ScarJewish Ways of LearningLandsmanI Helped What I CanPart 3. We Are All HereFrom the ArchivesAt the GateLeaving the Jerusalem of the NorthVoices of the Shavl GhettoThe Bystander and the Jewish PolicemanImportant Dates in Lithuanian HistoryAuthor's Note

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Book SynopsisThis is more than an account of Holocaust perpetrators who found a safe haven in postwar Australia. It is also the story of the Holocaust in the Ukraine, the War Crimes Act, Nazi policies, and the ways in which future generations translate history into law, archives into proof, and law into justice.Trade Review"This history offers the first critical examination of Australian attempts, a half-century after the Holocaust, to bring Nazi war criminals under its jurisdiction to justice."—Jewish Book World"Based on a review of previously unexamined historical and legal documents and transcripts, Daviborshch's Cart offers a critical examination of Australian attempts to bring alleged Nazi criminals to justice."—ShofarTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on LanguageIntroduction: The Long and Winding Road from Ukraine to Australia1. History, War Crimes, and Law in Ukraine2. A Brief Political and Legal History of Australia and Nazi War Criminals3. Law and History in Australian War Crimes Trials: Ukrainian Foresters, the Shoah, and the Polyukhovich Case4. Mikolay Berezowsky: The Case of "The Witness Who Knew Too Much"5. The Story of Daviborshch's Cart: Law, History, Truth, and the Holocaust in Ukraine6. Translating Law, Translating History, in Australian War Crimes Trials7. Telling Stories about the Shoah: Perpetrators, Victims, and the Politics of Australian Identity in The Hand That Signed the Paper8. Law, Memory, and Justice: The Australian ExperienceNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisPresents the most complete account to date of Soviet Jews during World War II and the Holocaust (1941-45). Reports, records, documents, and research previously unavailable in English enable Yitzhak Arad to trace the Holocaust in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union through three separate periods in which German political and military goals dictated the treatment of Jews.Trade Review"A significant contribution to the continuous effort of scholars to fathom the phenomenon known as 'The Holocaust.'"—Jewish Book World"[The Holocaust in the Soviet Union] is a magisterial work of great significance. Particularly for readers more familiar with the Holocaust in western Europe and occupied Poland, there is a great deal to learn from it."—Maarten Pereboom, Shofar"This book is a supreme achievement and an essential work for all Holocaust libraries."—Hallie Cantor, Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter"A masterful synthesis. . . . This study provides a much-needed panoramic view in a field that has produced mostly regional and microstudies in the past two decades. . . . Arad's remarkable tome has both an encyclopedic as well as broad-brush quality to it that makes it required reading in Holocaust Studies."—Bradley D. Woodworth, Russian Review"Arad's book constitutes a welcome and valuable contribution to Holocaust scholarship."—Šarūnas Liekis, Journal of Baltic Studies"Yitzhak Arad has produced a notable work that is particularly valuable for its comprehensive documentation of Nazi crimes over a large geographic area."—Waitman W. Beorn, Holocaust and Genocide StudiesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefacePart 1. The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union before World War II1. Jews in Czarist Russia2. Jews in the USSR and in the Annexed Territories between the Two World WarsPart 2. The Impact of Political and Military Developments on the Jews of Eastern Europe, September 1, 1939, to June 22, 19413. German-Soviet Relations and Geopolitical Changes in Eastern Europe 4. The Jews in the Soviet Annexed Territories 5. Preparations in Germany for the Attack on the Soviet Union and the Annihilation of the Jews Part 3. The German Attack on the Soviet Union6. Invasion under the Slogan "War on Judeo-Bolshevism" 7. Evacuation of the Soviet Population: Jews in Organized and Individual Evacuation 8. Anti-Jewish Pogroms during the Early Days of Occupation 9. The German Administration in the Occupied Territories and Its Anti-Jewish Policy Part 4. Mass Murder, First Stage: June 22, 1941, to Winter 1941-4210. Einsatzgruppen Routes of Advance and Method of Extermination 11. Reichskommissariat Ostland: Ghettos and Extermination 12. Reichskommissariat Ukraine: Ghettos and Extermination 13. Military Administration Areas: Ghettos and Extermination 14. Extermination of the Jews of Crimea 15. The German Army from "Freedom of Action" for the Einsatzgruppen to Active Collaboration in the Murders 16. Persecution of the Jews in District Galicia 17. Romania and Transnistria: Expulsion and Mass Murder Part 5. Mass Murder, Second Stage: From Spring to Late 194218. The Killing Actions in Ostland and the Grodno-Volkovysk Region (Generalbezirk Bialystok) 19. Annihilation in Reichskommissariat Ukraine 20. Mass Murder in District Galicia: Operation Reinhard 21. Annihilation in Areas under Military Administration 22. Transnistria: Life in the Shadow of Death Part 6. Mass Murder, Third Stage: From Early 1943 until the End of German Occupation23. Liquidation of the Last Ghettos in Reichskommissariat Ostland 24. Liquidation of the Last Ghettos in Reichskommissariat Ukraine 25. Survival in Transnistria 26. Action 1005 Part 7. The Murder of Specific Jewish Groups27. The Murder of Mixed Marriages, Their Offspring, and Jewish Children in Boardinghouses 28. The Murder of Jewish Prisoners of War 29. Extermination in Ostland of Jews from the Third Reich Part 8. The Robbery of Jewish Property and Cultural Values30. Confiscation and Plunder 31. The Pillage of Cultural Assets Part 9. Non-Jewish Society and Its Reaction to the Genocide of the Jews32. The Local Population 33. The Righteous among the Nations 34. Attitudes of the Churches and Clergy toward the German Administration and Its Anti-Jewish Policy Part 10. The Jews in Their Struggle for Life and in Armed Resistance35. The Individual, the Public, and Jewish Councils in a Battle for Survival 36. The Jewish Armed Underground in the Ghettos 37. The Jews in Forests and the Partisan Movement 38. Blood Account: Casualties and Survivors Conclusion Epilogue: The Holocaust and Soviet Governing Authorities Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPresents 213 documents on the theory, planning, and execution of, and reaction and resistance to, the Nazi plan to exterminate European Jews, from the 1920s through the closing days of World War II, and focuses on the experience of eastern Europe.Trade Review" ... Documents on the Holocaust remains essential to students and scholars for making easily accessible the lion's share of significant evidence concerning the Nazi annihilation of European Jewry."--SEER, 79, 3, 2001

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Book SynopsisAlina Bacall-Zwirn was born Alinka Handszer in Warsaw, Poland, in 1922. Married in the Warsaw ghetto and a survivor of four Nazi concentration camps, she immigrated to the United States with her husband in 1949.Trade Review"A wrenching human tale of terrible tragedy and the power of love. . . . Lacking any trace of sentimentality or drama, and told in a series of interviews by a woman who never quite mastered English, this powerful story illustrates the impossibility of weaving a coherent narrative from the shattered memories of those years. At the same time, the reader gradually discovers the extraordinary strength of the love which sustains both Leo and Alina.—Times Literary Supplement"Achingly honest and sensitively narrated, No Common Place is no common memoir. Weaving together testimony, dialogue, letters, and documents, it moves with grace between the past and the present. Through these seamless transitions, we learn—or perhaps remember anew—that the past is not really past; it lives on in us and in our families. This is an extraordinary and most welcome addition to Holocaust literature."—Debórah Dwork, Rose Professor of Holocaust History and director of the Center for Holocaust Studies at Clark University"Through its rare and moving commitment to the authenticity of the survivor's voice, No Common Place conveys both the lacerating details of Alina Bacall-Zwirn's past and the deeply humanizing story of her efforts to leave a legacy of memory to her children and to future generations. Jared Stark's sensitive arrangement of this testimony allows us to hear the urgency and vulnerability of her voice as she recalls the atrocities she and her community suffered. Stark's book is a contribution both to the historical record and to the crucial study of what it means to live in the aftermath of the Holocaust."—Geoffrey Hartman, project director of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University

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Book SynopsisAs the Holocaust passes out of living memory, future generations will no longer come face-to-face with Holocaust survivors. But the lessons of that terrible period in history are too important to let slip past. How Was It Possible?, edited and introduced by Peter Hayes, provides teachers and students with a comprehensive resource about the Nazi persecution of Jews.Trade Review"How Was It Possible constitutes an invaluable resource and should find its place in all libraries."—Jack Fischel, Jewish Book Council"[How Was It Possible?] should prove valuable not only to academic specialists, but to college students, their teachers, as well as for the general reader."—Jonathan Fass, Jewish Book World"A first-class anthology."—Sheldon Kirshner Journal“This brilliant compilation includes must-read primary sources, classic works of scholarship, and cutting-edge interpretations, assembled and introduced by a master historian and path-breaking Holocaust educator. An invaluable resource for students and teachers alike.”—Doris L. Bergen, author of War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust “Peter Hayes has assembled an outstanding collection of texts addressing what is undoubtedly the most important question arising from the Holocaust: How was it possible? This volume will prove invaluable to academic specialists, students, and non-expert readers who insist on the importance of approaching the subject with empirical and intellectual rigor.”—Alan E. Steinweis, professor of history and Miller Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont and author of Kristallnacht 1938 Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsForewordHarvey SchulweisIntroductionPeter HayesEditorial NoteChapter 1. The ContextIntroductionPeter Hayes[1.1] AntisemitismRobert S. Wistrich, from Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred[1.2] RacismMichael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann, from The Racial State[1.3] Contradictions in Central EuropeAmos Elon, from The Pity of It All[1.4] Germany’s Turmoil, 1918–1933Klaus P. Fischer, from Nazi Germany: A New History[1.5] The Interwar Jewish HeartlandEzra Mendelsohn, from The Jews of East Central Europe Between the World WarsChapter 2. Nazism in PowerIntroductionPeter Hayes[2.1] Elite CooperationEckart Conze et al., from Das Amt und die Vergangenheit [The Office and the Past][2.2] Street-Level CoercionSebastian Haffner, from Defying Hitler[2.3] The Claims of CommunityThomas Kühne, from Belonging and Genocide[2.4] AryanizationAvraham Barkai, from From Boycott to Annihilation[2.5] Talk of “Annihilation”Ernst von Weizsäcker’s Remarks to a Swiss Diplomat, November 15, 1938, from Documents Diplomatiques Suisses“Jews, What Now?” from Das Schwarze Korps, November 24, 1938Hitler’s Reichstag Speech, January 30, 1939, from Nazism 1939–1945Chapter 3. Impediments to EscapeIntroductionPeter Hayes[3.1] The United States and Refugees, 1933–1940Richard Breitman and Alan M. Kraut, from American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933–1945[3.2] France: From Hospitality to HostilityEugen Weber, from The Hollow Years[3.3] The Unreceptive British EmpireLouise London, from Whitehall and the Jews, 1933–1948[3.4] SwitzerlandIndependent Commission of Experts Switzerland—Second World War, from Switzerland, National Socialism, and the Second World War[3.5] PalestineRebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey, from Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust[3.6] Going and StayingMarion Kaplan, from Between Dignity and DespairChapter 4. The New Order in EuropeIntroductionPeter Hayes[4.1] Culling the German VolkRobert N. Proctor, from Racial Hygiene[4.2] Rearranging PopulationsGötz Aly and Suzanne Heim, from Architects of Annihilation[4.3] Racial War in the EastTimothy Snyder, from Bloodlands[4.4] Plunder, Individual and GovernmentalGötz Aly, from Hitler’s Beneficiaries[4.5] Forced LaborUlrich Herbert, from Hitler’s Foreign WorkersChapter 5. Jews in the Nazi GripIntroductionPeter Hayes[5.1] Indirect RuleIsaiah Trunk, from Judenrat[5.2] Isolation and ImpoverishmentChaim Kaplan, from Scroll of Agony[5.3] Choiceless ChoicesGordon J. Horwitz, from Ghettostadt: Lódz and the Making of a Nazi City[5.4] Leaving a RecordSamuel D. Kassow, from Who Will Write Our History?[5.5] Nothing to LoseYisrael Gutman, from The Jews of Warsaw, 1939–1943[5.6] Women Slave LaborersFelicja Karay, from Women in the Holocaust[5.7] Robbery in the NetherlandsMartin Dean, from Robbing the JewsChapter 6. The German Killers and Their MethodsIntroductionPeter Hayes[6.1] Deciding to KillMark Roseman, from The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution[6.2] Bringing Death to JewsRichard Rhodes, from Masters of Death[6.3] Bringing Jews to DeathRaul Hilberg, from The Destruction of the European Jews[6.4] Political SoldiersEdward B. Westermann, from Hitler’s Police Battalions[6.5] The Fates of GypsiesYehuda Bauer, from Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp[6.6] Camp LaborPrimo Levi, from If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz)[6.7] The Final FrenzyDaniel Blatman, from The Death MarchesChapter 7. Collaboration and Its LimitsIntroductionPeter Hayes[7.1] Poland: The Blue PoliceJan Grabowski, from Hunt for the Jews[7.2] Romania: Annihilation AbortedJean Ancel, from The History of the Holocaust in Romania[7.3] Vichy France: “Our” Jews and the RestSaul Friedländer, from The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945[7.4] The Italian ParadoxSusan Zuccotti, from The Italians and the Holocaust[7.5] The Hungarian ParoxysmRandolph L. Braham, from Studies on the Holocaust[7.6] Papal PrioritiesMichael Phayer, from The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930–1965[7.7] Self-Serving SwitzerlandIndependent Commission of Experts Switzerland—Second World War, from Switzerland, National Socialism, and the Second World WarChapter 8. Rescuing Jews—Means and ObstaclesIntroductionPeter Hayes[8.1] The Kovno ConnectionJonathan Goldstein, from Lessons and Legacies VI[8.2] The Good German of VilnaMichael Good, from The Search for Major Plagge[8.3] Collective Action in Vivarais-LignonPatrick Henry, from We Only Know Men[8.4] The Hidden Jews of WarsawGunnar S. Paulsson, from Secret City[8.5] Saving Jewish Children in BelgiumBob Moore, from Survivors[8.6] American InhibitionsRichard Breitman and Alan M. Kraut, from American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933–1945[8.7] Sweden Expands AsylumPaul A. Levine, from From Indifference to ActivismChapter 9. AftermathIntroductionPeter Hayes[9.1] SurvivorsMark Wyman, from DPs: Europe’s Displaced Persons, 1945–51[9.2] Zion’s AmbivalenceTom Segev, from The Seventh Million[9.3] America’s IncomprehensionBeth B. Cohen, from Case Closed[9.4] The Great ReversalTony Judt, from Postwar[9.5] The Pathology of DenialRichard J. Evans, from Lying about Hitler[9.6] Restitution and Its DiscontentsMichael R. Marrus, from Some Measure of Justice[9.7] After Such KnowledgeEva Hoffman, from After Such KnowledgeList of AbbreviationsSource AcknowledgmentsIndex

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Book SynopsisDrawing from an exhaustive collection of original Jewish accounts and sources not available until the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu in the late 1980s, Jean Ancel provides a detailed analysis of the path of antisemitism that led to the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust in Romania.Trade Review"This monumental work is a scholarly witnessing to be admired."—Michael N. Dobkowski, Jewish Book World"The book has a wealth of details and is very informative. Professional historians as well as casual readers should take note of this book and make it a starting point in their quest to delve further into the mystery of the Holocaust in Romania."—Michael Gesin, H-Net"The wealth of information included in this tome and the superior organization and presentation makes it a must for any Judaica library with a Holocaust collection, whether a basic collection, or a rich, academically focused one."—Michlean Amir, Association of Jewish Libraries newsletterTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsForeword to the Hebrew EditionEditors' NoteIntroduction1. The Goga Government: Europe's Second Antisemitic Government, 28 December 1937-10 February 19382. King Carol II's Dictatorship and Its Policy toward the Jews, February 1938-August 19403. The Rhinocerization of the Romanian Intelligentsia4. The Romanian Orthodox Church and Its Attitude toward the "Jewish Problem"5. The Nazi Influence on Romanian Political Life and Its Effect on the Situation of the Jews6. Pogroms and Persecutions in the Summer of 19407. The National-Legionary State8. Romanization9. Legionary Terror10. The Confrontation between Antonescu and the Legionnaires and Its Impact on the Situation of the Jews11. The Legionnaires' Rebellion and the Bucharest Pogrom, 21-23 January 194112. The Jewish Leadership under the National-Legionary Regime13. The Political and Ideological Foundations of the Antonescu Regime14. The Government's Attitude toward the Jews15. Romanization (II)16. The Antonescu Regime and the Final Solution, 1941-4217. The Romanian Solution to the Jewish Problem in Bessarabia and Bukovina, June-July 194118. The Camps and Ghettos in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, September-November 194119. The Kishinev Ghetto20. Czernowitz21. Southern Bukovina22. The Dorohoi District23. The National Bank of Romania24. Transnistria under Romanian Occupation25. The Arrest and Deportation of Jews in Transnistria26. "The Kingdom of Death"27. Odessa28. The Berezovka District29. The Typhus Epidemic30. The Hunt for Residents of Jewish Blood31. The Romanian Church and the Christianization Campaign32. The Degradation of Judaism and Jews33. The Iasi Pogrom, 29 June 194134. The Antonescu Regime and the Final Solution in the Regat and Southern Transylvania35. Toward the Implementation of the Final Solution36. The Postponement of the Nazi Final Solution37. The Jews of the Regat and Southern Transylvania in the Shadow of the Final Solution38. Statistical Data on the Holocaust in RomaniaNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDuring World War II, more than five million Jews lived under Nazi rule in Eastern Europe. The German authorities established in each ghetto a Jewish Council, or Judenrat, to maintain minimal living standards. This work analyzes situations where the Councils and ghetto police were forced to send their own communities to death.Trade Review"Judenrat confirms one conclusion: the Nazis created a hell on earth where the best could falter and the worst could show a flash of decency. Suddenly, one realizes what happens to people in a world of absolute evil. Mr. Trunk again teaches us that we must distinguish between victims and criminals, as well as between criminal victims and criminals. The greatest virtue of this important book based upon half a decade of research and sound scholarship is that it is not an objective study. Objectivity would be indecent here."—[London] Times Literary Supplement"This is the first full-length account of the Judenrat. . . . [It is] an exhaustive study of a complex subject, and Trunk’s closely documented descriptions of the ghettos and how the Judenrat held them together are stark and unforgettable."—Library Journal

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Book SynopsisEighty-five percent of Italy's Jews survived World War II. Nevertheless, more than six thousand Italian Jews were destroyed in the Holocaust and lives of countless others were marked by terror. This book relates hundreds of stories showing the resourcefulness of Jews, the bravery of those who helped them, and inhumanity and indifference of others.Trade Review"A careful historical account linked to personal narratives."—New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisMarion Yorck von Wartenburg was involved in the Nazi resistance group known as the Kreisau Circle, whose cofounder was her husband, Peter. The Kreisau Circle participated in the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944.Trade Review"One of the great questions about the Nazi era in Germany has always been why no organized opposition emerged until the unsuccessful assassination attempt on Hitler's life in 1944. Marion Yorck von Wartenburg's The Power of Solitude addresses this issue with remarkable clarity...Von Wartenburg brings a personal perspective as she describes the arrest, trial, and execution of her husband and his friends, and her own arrest and imprisonment... Her description of the years following the death of her husband and the end of the war is deeply moving... This memoir ... gives us a fascinating look at historical events from the perspective of a bravely defiant German woman. Her account supplies background information gained through her personal involvement in the resistance to Nazism and will be of special interest to any student of the period. It is also a well-told human story that will keep the reader glued to the book until its final moments."-Bloomsbury Review Bloomsbury Review

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Book SynopsisThe story of Julija Šukys’s paternal grandparents, a Siberian exile and an accused Nazi war criminal, and their survival of a twenty-five-year forced separation and subsequent reunion.Trade Review"Julija Šukys’ Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter's Reckoning . . . is a book both about storytelling and about the inability, sometimes, to tell stories. Šukys attempts, in this book, to reconstruct the lives of her Lithuanian grandfather and grandmother, but in so doing, she discovers family and political secrets that unsettle the project and her relationship to her past, to the past of her family, and to the act of narrating history itself."—Vivian Wagner, Brevity"[Siberian Exile] is the wonderfully written, emotional, and real account of discovery and family secrets."—Curtis Woodcock, Phoenix"Julija Šukys reads between the lines of historical and personal documents to tell the tale of grandparents separated by deportation during the middle of the last century. . . . Because silence fills the plot holes in family stories and swallows wide swathes of history, stories such as Siberian Exile become all that more important."—Kerry Kubilius, Vilnius Review"Siberian Exile is a reminder—and we do indeed need reminding—that as Americans we have not experienced a foreign presence on our shores for more than two hundred and forty years, never to the extreme as Lithuania and many other European countries have."—Richard Goodman, River Teeth“Interweaving coincidences and reversals with historical precision in a narrative that layers, folds, zags and spikes, Julija Šukys wanders the ghost-filled streets of the present, mingling with kin, real and imagined, and corresponding with multiple unspeakable pasts. I can’t recall the last time I read so gripping and so delicate a documentary of atrocity, complicity, dispossession, and survival. Siberian Exile is remarkable, daunting, and disarmingly real.”—Mary Cappello, author of Life Breaks In: A Mood Almanack “Riveting. . . . Beyond the historical and familial narrative, Julija Šukys ponders her own exile and her own complicity, allowing readers to do the same, comparing versions of selves and asking which version is truest, an impossible question, but one readers will find as enthralling as these pages.”—Patrick Madden, author of Sublime Physick and Quotidiana“All families harbor secrets. What if, in blithe innocence, you set out to research your family history, only to discover that your grandfather was guilty of the most heinous of crimes? Šukys pursues her tragic family memoir with courage and self-examination, often propelled to her painful discoveries by what she believes is a bizarre synchronicity. This is not a book written at a safe distance.”—Rosemary Sullivan, author of Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Chronology Part I. Anthony Part II. Ona Part III. Us Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisHarnessing the Holocaust presents the compelling story of how the Nazi genocide of the Jews became an almost daily source of controversy in French politics. Joan Wolf argues that from the Six-Day War through the trial of Maurice Papon in 1997-98, the Holocaust developed from a Jewish trauma into a metaphor for oppression and a symbol of victimization on a wide scale. Using scholarship from a range of disciplines, Harnessing the Holocaust argues that the roots of Holocaust politics reside in the unresolved dilemmas of Jewish emancipation and the tensions inherent in the revolutionary notion of universalism. Ultimately, the book suggests, the Holocaust became a screen for debates about what it means to be French.Trade Review"This subtle, scholarly, discerning book is more than a study of "the politics of the Holocaust" in post-World War II France; it is also an examination of how a series of events, starting with the Six-Day War in 1967, led to drastic changes in the relationship between French Jews and the French Republic." -- Stanley Hoffmann * Foreign Affairs *"[T]he book's strengths are manifold. Not only does Wolf thoroughly explain the Holocaust's emergence as a significant theme in French public life, but she also expertly shows the ways in which Jews and non-Jews interpreted the past differently, leading to misunderstandings between them." -- Journal of Modern History"Wolf's book is a fascinating and subtle study....Its value cannot be underestimated..." -- European History Quarterly"Indispensable reading for those wishing to understand Jewish attitudes and post-war politics in France, this work offers a richly detailed presentation of a thirty-year discourse on the Holocaust." -- French Review"Wolf has written a fine study of memory, ethnicity, and assimilation in postwar France. She makes a valuable contribution not only to recent French history but also to Holocaust studies and the history of memory." * JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY *

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Book SynopsisThis is a study of how the Breslau Jewish community, the third largest and one of the most affluent in Germany, coped with Nazi persecution from 1933 until its liquidation in 1943.Trade Review"...Ascher has made an important contribution toward a fuller understanding of German Jews' day-to-day experiences prior to their ight or deportation." -- Lars Fischer * Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge, Journal of Modern History *"[Ascher's study is] Meticulously researched, utilizing scores of published and archival resources and interviews with Jews from Breslau who survived the Holocaust as well as his own recollections." -- Nils H. Roemer * American Historical Review *"A fully-informed, well-written book on the Jewish community in Breslau under National Socialism. More than that, this is the first time that a convincing picture has been created of this community in its darkest hour." -- Frankfurter Allegmeine Zeitung"We have no other study which records how a single community dealt with the Nazi onslaught and so this book can and should be an archetype of what happened in those years throughout Germany... No one can say for sure what the morrow will bring, but meantime we have this fascinating, carefully documented, and yet immensely moving, account of what Jewish Breslau was like in its last years. And for this gift, we all owe Professor Ascher much gratitude. He has recorded the last days and the slow death of a noble Jewish community, and he has enriched our understanding of Modern Jewish History with this eloquent Kaddish." -- Jewish Journal"Breslau, the leading city in East Germany, had a Jewish community of 20,000 which, prior to 1933, played a prominent part in the economic, social, and cultural life of the city. Professor Ascher's pioneering study describes in minute detail how the Nazi authorities, over a number of years, systematically 'liquidated' this community until no one remained. He also relates on the basis of much hitherto unknown or unused material how the Jews reacted individually and as a community. It is a tragic story repeated many times over in Germany and other European countries, but it has never before been told in such authoritative detail. It is much more than local history and will serve as a model for the historiography of this dark period." * Walter Laqueur *"Ascher was born in Breslau and experienced the beginnings of Nazism there before he and his family emigrated in 1939. This account skillfully interweaves personal history and meticulous scholarship drawn from archival sources and personal interviews. The result is a portrait of the Jews in Breslau from the beginning of Hitler's ascent to power until the deportation of the very last Jews from their city. Beyond that, however, it is emblematic of the events all over Germany during the ten years of Nazi rule." -- Association of Jewish LibrariesTable of ContentsContents @toc4:Acknowledgments xxx @toc2:Introduction 1 1. Jews Settle in Breslau 00 2. "Creeping Persecution," 19331934 000 3. Calm Before the Storm 000 4. Kristallnacht 000 5. Tightening the Screws, 19391941 000 6. The End 000 Conclusion 000 @toc2:Reference Matter @toc4:Notes 000 Glossary 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000 Photographs follow page 000

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Book SynopsisThe Belated Witness examines major works by Art Spiegelman, Cynthia Ozick, Christa Wolf, and Paul Celan, focusing specifically on the unsettling configuration of birth-as-death trauma around which these texts are organized.Trade Review"The Belated Witness is a remarkable book and a stunning accomplishment. This beautiful, finely wrought, and impeccably argued text makes a vital and refreshing contribution to existing scholarship in a number of fields: Holocaust literary studies, contemporary German literature, psychoanalytic literary criticism, and literary theory, more generally. Timely, profound, thoughtful, and ambitious in scope, it could very well become an instant classic of literary criticism."—Elissa Marder, Emory University"The book's importance lies not only in its insights into particular texts, but in its redefinition of testimony and our responses to it. This is an outstanding work." -- Marianne Hirsch * Columbia University *Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii @toc2:1. Introduction 1 2. Necessary Stains: The Bleeding of History in Spiegelman's maus I 000 3. The Vanishing Point: Spiegelman's maus II 000 4. Writing Anxiety: Christa Wolf's Patterns of Childhood and the Throat of the Witness 000 5. Toward an Addressable You: Ozick's The Shawl and the Mouth of the Witness 000 6. Silent Wine: Celan and the Poetics of Belatedness 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Works Cited 000 Index 000

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Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive new study of the Greek Jewish experience during World War II to be published in sixty years.Trade Review"Professor Bowman has, in meticulous detail, provided the English-language reader the most comprehensive and up-to-date narrative of this otherwise little-known Jewish community in southeastern Europe . . . Bowman's treatment of Salonika Zionists and efforts to get Jews into mandatory Palestine makes interesting reading . . . This book will certainly be the standard resource on the subject, at least for the foreseeable future." -- Sanford R. Silverburg * Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) Newsletter *"The Agony of Greek Jews is a welcome addition to the scholarship on Greek Jewry. Bowman's contribution to the understanding of each individual community's fate during the Holocaust and Greek Civil War is invaluable." -- Katerina Lagos * California State University, Sacramento, East European Jewish Affairs *"Despite the nearly total obliteration of Greek Jewry in World War II, the Holocaust in Greece has been virtually ignored in historical literature in the English language. Bowmans volume, based on decades of research and deep familiarity with the region, its complexities, and its personalities, is an important corrective to this great gap." -- Jane Gerber * CUNY Graduate Center *"Bowman's excellent readable book utilizes the latest documentary research, including records from foreign archives only now being made public. The newly released documents confirm the horrors of a story only partially known, shedding light on a tragic episode in a remote part of the German occupation of Europe. The rich fabric of Jewish culture in Greece has never fully recovered . . . Highly recommended." -- E. N. Borza * Choice *"Few books have been written in English on the Shoah of Greek Jews. Steven Bowman's book is original because it looks at the experience of Greek Jews during World War II, not in isolation as in many other accounts, but in the context of the war in Greece . . . The Agony of Greek Jews is a book rich in information." -- Rosine Nussenblatt * Sephardic Horizons *"The Agony of Greek Jews documents with meticulous attention to detail and a laudable ambition for breadth of coverage the stories of Jewish communities scattered across the territory of modern Greece at a time of rapid, often destabilizing, and eventually catastrophic change . . . The Agony of Greek Jews is as much an impressive historical register of Jewish survival in Greece against the odds as it is a uniquely detailed archive of memory for all those who perished in the Nazi camps or lost their lives while fighting against the brutal occupying forces." -- Aristotle Kallis * H-Judaic *Table of ContentsContents @toc4:Preface xx Acknowledgments xx Abbreviations xx @toc2:Introduction 1 1. The Jews of Greece to World War I 000 2. Germans and Jews in Greece 000 3. In Victory and Defeat 000 4. Vernichtungsorganisation 000 5. Chronicle of the Deportations 000 6. Abnormal Deaths in a Foreign Land 000 7. How A a Remnant Survived 000 8. Freedom or Death 000 9. Relief and Rescue 000 10. Bitter Homecoming 000 Afterword 000 @toc4:Appendix: Numbers 000 Notes 000 Index 000

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Book SynopsisThis book considers some of the most famous Yiddish writers in America, the controversies their works aroused—in Yiddish and English—during the Holocaust, and the ways in which reading them contributes to a revision of American Jewish cultural development.Trade Review"Discovering Exile is a vital, compact study of a formative moment in American Jewish culture when writers in both English and Yiddish began to confront the holocaust and its implications. Probing politics of representation, Norich uncovers the crucial role of Yiddish in American Jewish culture and American literary modernism." -- Tony Michels * AJS *"In Discovering Exile, Anita Norich restores a significant part of Jewish American cultural and literary history that had been supplanted by a prevailing myth of what she calls "gradual dissipation," the notion that Yiddish culture was somehow divided and displaced by English and thereby split from its Yiddish roots. Instead, she shows how Yiddish and English speaking worlds of the thirties, forties, and beyond drew on each other for inspiration. In rehistoricizing the living, breathing American Jewish life of these decades, Norich also gives us back an era long lost to historians who made the Holocaust the central and therefore over-determining event of the twentieth century. The result is a first-rate literary history of a largely overlooked world." -- James E. Young * University of Massachusetts, Amherst *"In her fascinating study of this traditional view/assumption, Norich examines the premises of historical and cultural pressures that determined Jewish fate from the optimistic 18th-centruy Enlightenment to its violent end in the concentration-camp universe Including helpful notes and an extensive bibliography, this thought-provoking study will reward a broad audience with fresh insights and better understanding." -- CHOICETable of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments xxx Introduction 1 1. Cultural Questions, Jewish Answers 000 2. "Good Night, World:" Yankev Glatshteyn's Ambivalent Rejection 000 3. Sholem Asch and the Christian Question 000 4. From the Politics of Culture to the Culture of Mourning 000 Epilogue 000 Appendix 1. Selected News Review in Contemporary Jewish Record 000 Appendix 2. Translation of Rachel Auerbach's "Amol iz geven a meylekh" [Once There Was a King] 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Engel asks why and how Jewish history and the Holocaust came to be viewed as separate areas of academic study.Trade Review"The book must be deemed a well-argued and impressive appeal for Jewish scholars—whose work Engel clearly admires—to step out of the shadows of the current perpetrator-dominated Holocaust debate and to show how the catastrophe can be fitted into Jewish historical development, thereby creating a more complete picture of Jewish history as a whole. Above all, Engel's book shows that historiographical thinking is often as important and thought-provoking as original scholarship and it is vital in providing the insights and questions about the current state of new thinking on the discipline that can lead on to further detailed empirical research." -- Frank McDonough * European History Quarterly *"In this provocative book, David Engel tries to understand why most historians of the Jews have refused to let the Holocaust influence the way they see the Jewish past. Historians who study modern European Jewish history, Engel claims, "sequester the Holocaust," seeing it as a separate field unto itself or as a branch of European history but not as a phenomenon with roots in the history of Jewish-Gentile interactions in Europe." -- Marsha L Rozenblit * Journal of Modern History *"This Jewish professor predicts that overemphasis on the Holocaust martyrdom will eventually fade . . . [and suggests that] in Israel, 'the Holocaust' has become less an historical story, and more like a novelist's moral tale." -- Robert H. Whealey * Canadian Journal of History *"David Engel's excellent book challenges scholars to reconsider the relationship between the Holocaust and modern Jewish history, two fields deliberately sequestered from one another by modern Jewish historians . . . Engel's is an important and provocative work that explains why the Holocaust has been the preserve of historians of Europe rather than historians of the Jews. It further points to the intellectual consequences of this development. It ought to be read and considered by anyone working in these areas." -- Norman J. W. Goda * Journal of Central European History *"David Engel . . . provides us in Historians of the Jews and the Holocaust with a brilliant 'historiographic study of the tendency of historians of Holocaust...and historians of the Jews...to construct their fields as two separate realms, each wit its own rules and practices, whose border is not readily crossed." -- CJR * Jewish Book World *"Engel uncovers the intellectual and sociological roots of a longstanding partition between Jewish history and Holocaust Studies and argues persuasively for its removal. This is an extremely important work that ought to provoke all modern Jewish historians to reflect on the assumptions governing their own work and their approach to the matters they study." -- Allan Arkush * SUNY Binghamton *

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Book SynopsisMultidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time. Employing a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book makes a twofold argument about Holocaust memory in a global age by situating it in the unexpected context of decolonization. On the one hand, it demonstrates how the Holocaust has enabled the articulation of other histories of victimization at the same time that it has been declared unique among human-perpetrated horrors. On the other, it uncovers the more surprising and seldom acknowledged fact that public memory of the Holocaust emerged in part thanks to postwar events that seem at first to have little to do with it. In particular, Multidirectional Memory highlights how ongoing processes of decolonization and movements for civil rights in the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere unexpectedly galvanized memory of the Holocaust. Rothberg engages with both well-known and non-Trade Review"Rothberg's study is published in the prestigious 'Cultural Memory in the Present' series, and will undoubtedly have a lasting impact on memory studies and related fields . . . [I]t is to be hoped that Multidirectional Memory will inspire further recuperation of 'forgotten' works, and accompanying reassessments of the political entanglements of writers positions (and positionings)." -- Anne Whitehead * Interventions: Journal of Postcolonial Studies *"The book fleshes out a powerful genealogy for multidirectional memory as well as a more sustained account of how, more specifically, Holocaust memory and colonial memory come together in France around the legacy of the Algerian War." -- Laura Levitt * H-Net Reviews *"Ground-breaking book . . . Thanks to Rothberg, we are able to engage more thoughtfully with our knotted past— and with our tangled future, too." -- Jonathan Druker * Illinois State University *"Multidirectional Memory is a pathbreaking work of interdisciplinary scholarship that will reconfigure the fields of Holocaust Studies and post-colonial theory. Rothberg's powerful study of the relations between Holocaust memory and decolonization illuminates the 'multidirectional' orientation of collective memory through half a century of transnational cultural production in Europe, North America, the Caribbean and North Africa (with an emphasis on postwar France)." -- Debarati Sanyal, University of California * Berkeley *"This is the first book to take up the transnational and cross-disciplinary politics of memory in ways adequate to the difficulties and pitfalls of the topic. In its readings of theoretical and literary texts primarily from the 1950s and 1960s, it confronts the Holocaust with decolonization, successfully questioning the 'color line' separating these two discourses today. Deft in argument and subtle in its analyses, Rothberg's book provides an exciting new direction for memory studies in the humanities and in social thought. A compelling read!" -- Andreas Huyssen * Columbia University *

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Book SynopsisThe diaries of Willy Cohn chronicle the progressive constriction and eventual destruction of Jewish life in Breslau, Germany, under the Nazis.Trade Review"It is rare that such perceptive and comprehensive accounts of this time period survive, and Conrads and Cronenberg help fulfill Cohn's desire to inform future generations about his experiences . . . This condensed diaries and helpful background information should also certainly encourage a wider readership and general audience."—Teresa Walch, H-Net'No Justice for Germany should stand alongside Victor Klemperer's I Will Bear Witness as a crucial diary from the Nazi years. Compassionate, snarky, intelligent, and complicated, it will prove to be a book of tremendous significance to researchers and students alike."—Robin Judd, Journal of Modern History"Among an extraordinarily rich and diverse set of sources, the diary of Willy Cohn stands out. It constitutes important reading for scholars and students with an interest in the interrelated histories of German Jewry, the Third Reich, and the Holocaust . . . Thanks to Norbert Conrads, readers of English can now access Cohn's astute and sensitive reflections on the destruction of the Breslau Jewish community."—Alexandra Garbarini, Holocaust and Genocide Studies"Willy Cohn—historian, educator, and Social Democrat—recorded events under the Third Reich from his home town of Brelau, a prominent Jewish center of Germany, until he and his wife and two youngest children were deported to Lithuania where they perished . . . His dry account of everyday life—marriage, work, colleagues, relatives, and neighbors—provides chilling insight into the growing horror around him . . . Willy Cohn's diary, though lacking some of the wonder and youthfulness of Anne Frank's, is equally tragic, and valuable as an eyewitness to history."—Hallie Cantor, Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter"This is by far the most probing, insightful, and gripping diary of a Jewish intellectual who lived in Germany during the 1930s. Indispensable for anyone interested in how Jews active in community affairs fared under Nazism."—Abraham Ascher, author of A Community under Siege: The Jews of Breslau under Nazism

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Book SynopsisRecalling his experience of the ghetto at six years old, Michal Glowinski, attentive to the distance between a child's experience and an adult's reflection, revisits the images and episodes of his childhood. He explores the horror of those years, the fragility of existence, and the fragmented nature of memory itself.

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Book SynopsisArgues that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourish well into the twenty-first century. This bold new work examines those structures, tropes, patterns, ironies, disjunctions, and overall tensions that produce a literature that laments unrecoverable loss for a generation removed spatially and temporally from the extended trauma of the Holocaust.

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking study of responses to the Holocaust in wartime and postwar Polish literature explores seven writers' compulsive need to share their traumatic experience of witness with the world. It is a particularly timely book in view of the continuing debates about the attitudes of Poles toward the Jews during the war.Table of Contents 1. The Holocaust in Polish Consciousness: Early Literary Representations 2. The Moral Failure of the Enlightened Witness of the Holocaust: Kornel Filipowicz, Józef Mackiewicz, and Tadeusz Borowski 3. Re-thinking Christian theology in the Time of the Holocaust: Zofia Kossak–Szczucka 4. The Humanistic Crisis of a Godless World: Leopold Buczkowski 5. Catholic Existentialism in Face of the Occupation and the Holocaust: Jerzy Andrzejewski 6. The Holocaust and a Vision of Polish-Jewish Kinship: Stefan Otwinowski Epilogue Notes Index

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Book SynopsisChallenges a number of key themes in Holocaust studies with new research. Taken together, these essays incorporate gender analysis, spatial thinking, and victim agency into Holocaust studies. In so doing, they move beyond existing notions of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders to portray the Holocaust as a complex and multilayered event.Trade Review“Tim Cole and Simone Gigliotti bring together a fascinating range of approaches from social history to cultural and migration and media studies, historical geography, literary studies, and linguistics. Their volume shows how methodological challenges of Holocaust scholarship can be addressed by taking on two scales of analysis—the microhistory of the individual and the mezzo-history of social groups.” —Natalia Aleksiun, author of Conscious History: Polish-Jewish Historians before the HolocaustTable of Contents Introduction: The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century: Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age, Tim Cole and Simone Gigliotti Part I. Tropes Reconsidered 1. Re-imagining the ‘gray zone’: Female Prisoner Functionaries in the Groß-Rosen Subcamps, 1944-45, Andrea Rudorff 2. The Muselmann Liberated: Impossible Holocaust Metaphors in Survivor Memoirs and Photography, Sharon B. Oster 3. Absent Presence, Pathological Afterimages, and the Aesthetics of Excrement, Holli Levitsky 4. When one door closes, another opens: The Demjanjuk Trials in Israel (1986-1993) and in Germany (2009-2011), Yehudit Dori-Deston Part II. Survival Strategies and Obstructions 5. The Geographies of Living Underground: Escape Routes and Hiding Spaces of Fugitive Jews in the Bavarian Countryside, 1939-1945, Susanna Schrafstetter 6. Bella Hazan Ya`ari: A Member of the Jewish Resistance in Pursuit of Self and a Future, Dalia Ofer 7. Migration Narratives of Holocaust Survivors in Chile, Colombia and Mexico, Lorena Avila, Nancy Nicholls, and Yael Siman Part III. Digital Methods, Digital Memory 8. A Different Approach to Microhistory: The Arrests of the Jews of the Vaucluse as Seen through Quantitative Prosopography, Adrien Dallaire 9. Mind the Gap: Reading Across the Holocaust Testimonial Archive, Anne Kelly Knowles, Paul B. Jaskot, Tim Cole, and Alberto Giordano 10. When the Index is Wrong: Exploring Black Holes in Victim Memory, Hannah Pollin-Galay 11. People, Places, Things: Considering the Role of Visitor Photography at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum”Meghan Lundrigan Author biographies

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Trade Review"Lipstadt's Holocaust: An American Understanding fulfills its editors' request for a volume that 'decipher[s]' a key word in Jewish Studies and underscores 'the points of intersection between academic disciplines and wider spheres of culture.' And to my mind, it also succeeds as a mini-intellectual and social biography of a scholar and Jewish advocate who has become one of the most remarkable Jewish women of our time." * Antisemitism Studies *"Drawing on primary and secondary sources as well as interviews, Lipstadt’s book details the manner in which the Shoah moved from a little-understood, horrific casualty of WW II to its present impact on American culture, politics, and the US Jewish community ... Lipstadt’s exceptional book deserves to be in libraries as well as in colleges and universities that offer courses on the Holocaust and its aftermath ... Summing up: Essential. All levels/libraries." * Choice *"Deborah Lipstadt always writes smoothly and reasons vigorously. This book is lucid, accessible, and courageous - I couldn't put it down." -- Peter Hayes * Professor of History and German, Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor, Nort *"[Holocaust] is very much an account of an American discourse on the Holocaust, and one in which Jewish voices take centre stage. For those on Jewish studies programmes in US universities, it will serve as a helpful introduction to the main trends since 1945." * Times Higher Education *"Offer[s] yet another revealing avenue into American understandings of the Holocaust." * Journal of American History *"Zuckerberg's comments give Holocaust deniers an opening" by Deborah Lipstadt * CNN.com *Table of ContentsForeword by Andrew Bush, Deborah Dash Moore, and MacDonald MooreAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Terms of Debate Finding a Name to Define a Horror Laying the Foundation: The Visionary Role of Philip Friedman Creating a Field of Study: Raul Hilberg Survivors in America: An Uncomfortable Encounter “Holocaust” in American Popular Culture, 1947–19622 State of the Question The Eichmann Trial and the Arendt Debate “Holocaust”: Shedding Light on America’s Shortcomings A Post-Holocaust Protest Generation Creates Its Memories The Baby Boom Protesters From the Mideast to Moscow: Holocaust Redux? Survivors: From DPs to Witnesses Severed Alliances The Holocaust and the Small Screen America and the Holocaust: Playing the Blame Game The White House: Whose Holocaust? The Kremlin versus Wiesel: Identifying the Victims 3 In a New Key Skewing the Numbers: Counting the Victims An Obsession with the Holocaust? A Jewish Critique The Bitburg Affair: The “Watergate of Symbolism” Memory Booms as the World Forgets Assaults on the Holocaust: Normalization, Denial, and Trivialization The Uniqueness Battle Impassioned Attacks Competitive Genocides? The Holocaust versus All Others Scaring the People: On How Not to ProceedNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an exciting, provocative, path-breaking book. It is complex, textured in historical detail, and full of literally hundreds of various scenarios and possibilities of 'what if.' Gurock has done a masterful job." -- Marc Dollinger * co-editor of American Jewish History: A Primary Source Reader *"Gurock’s book is a tour de force, on the cutting edge of an emerging genre. He has mastered American political history, European military and political history, and every aspect of American Jewry over a period of about three decades, and crafted an intelligent, entertaining, imaginative, and even suspenseful narrative. I cannot think of anyone who could have duplicated this superb book." -- Marc Lee Raphael * author of The Synagogue in America: A Short History *"With imagination and erudition, courage and wit—including a suddenly stalwart Neville Chamberlain defying Hitler at Munich and a Joseph P. Kennedy (Jr.) becoming Israel's most important friend—Jeffrey Gurock ponders how a fragile and skittish American Jewry might have evolved without Pearl Harbor and Auschwitz. His surprisingly dystopian vision, filled with familiar characters in unfamiliar and intriguing roles, is sure to challenge—and, quite possibly, to infuriate." -- David Margolick * author of Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink *"Hot on the trail of surprise turns and eerie parallels in this 'what if' romp through the most momentous years of 20th century history, the reader ultimately confronts the dilemmas of Jewish life today." -- Jack Wertheimer * Jewish Theological Seminary *"If [Philip] Roth and [Quentin] Tarantino could rewrite the past, why not allow the historian - in this case Yeshiva University scholar Jeffrey Gurock - to play with facts and offer, with many of the trappings of scholarship, an imagined history?" * Times Higher Education *"The Holocaust Averted shows how stimulating a counterfactual drawn from social history can be … Gurock's book takes a seemingly felicitous event as a divergence point, and draws dark conclusions." * Aeon *"Gurock's emphasis on the contrast between the postwar American Jewry of his alternative Jewry and what Jews actually experienced after 1945 perhaps offers a clue as to why he wrote this engrossing volume. The book implicitly challenges those naysayers who have emphasized the deficiencies of post-war American Jewry. When placed alongside his somber alternate history of American Jews, what is noteworthy from his perspective is their actual accomplishments. For Gurock the glass of postwar American Jewry and of American Judaism is half full, not half empty." * American Jewish History *"As magical, restorative, and nearly unconceivable it is for us, his audience, to read European Jewry back into existence, Gurock directs the readers attention elsewhere in this ambitious reimagining of twentieth-century history ... This book delivers frisson upon frisson as the world we know brushes up past its fraternal twin." * The American Jewish Archives Journal *"Gurock has made a compelling contribution to the study of counterfactual history, relevant to both scholars and general reader alike." * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrologue Ghosts in the Restored Jewish Quarter in Krakow, Poland: An Entrance into Alternate Jewish HistoryChapter 1 A World at War, 1938Chapter 2 American Jewry in the Late 1930s: A Respite for an Insecure CommunityChapter 3 Conflicting Challenges for an America at Peace, 1938–1944Chapter 4 Without the “Boss”: American Jewry’s Concerns, 1940–1944Chapter 5 The Eastern European Threat and an End to U.S. Isolationism, 1944–1945Chapter 6 Divided Allegiances: American Jews and Israel, 1944–1950Chapter 7 Suburban Jewish Cul de Sacs, 1950–1960Chapter 8 The 1960s and the Trials of Acceptance for American JewsChapter 9 Unending Dilemmas: Israelis, Arabs, the World Powers, and American JewsConclusion Alternate History and the Realities of American Jewish LifeNotes

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Book SynopsisImagines what might have happened to the Jewish community in the United States if the Holocaust had never occurred. Jeffrey Gurock forces readers to contemplate how the road to acceptance and empowerment for today's American Jews could have been harder than it actually was.Trade Review"This is an exciting, provocative, path-breaking book. It is complex, textured in historical detail, and full of literally hundreds of various scenarios and possibilities of 'what if.' Gurock has done a masterful job." -- Marc Dollinger * co-editor of American Jewish History: A Primary Source Reader *"Gurock’s book is a tour de force, on the cutting edge of an emerging genre. He has mastered American political history, European military and political history, and every aspect of American Jewry over a period of about three decades, and crafted an intelligent, entertaining, imaginative, and even suspenseful narrative. I cannot think of anyone who could have duplicated this superb book." -- Marc Lee Raphael * author of The Synagogue in America: A Short History *"With imagination and erudition, courage and wit—including a suddenly stalwart Neville Chamberlain defying Hitler at Munich and a Joseph P. Kennedy (Jr.) becoming Israel's most important friend—Jeffrey Gurock ponders how a fragile and skittish American Jewry might have evolved without Pearl Harbor and Auschwitz. His surprisingly dystopian vision, filled with familiar characters in unfamiliar and intriguing roles, is sure to challenge—and, quite possibly, to infuriate." -- David Margolick * author of Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink *"Hot on the trail of surprise turns and eerie parallels in this 'what if' romp through the most momentous years of 20th century history, the reader ultimately confronts the dilemmas of Jewish life today." -- Jack Wertheimer * Jewish Theological Seminary *"If [Philip] Roth and [Quentin] Tarantino could rewrite the past, why not allow the historian - in this case Yeshiva University scholar Jeffrey Gurock - to play with facts and offer, with many of the trappings of scholarship, an imagined history?" * Times Higher Education *"The Holocaust Averted shows how stimulating a counterfactual drawn from social history can be … Gurock's book takes a seemingly felicitous event as a divergence point, and draws dark conclusions." * Aeon *"Gurock's emphasis on the contrast between the postwar American Jewry of his alternative Jewry and what Jews actually experienced after 1945 perhaps offers a clue as to why he wrote this engrossing volume. The book implicitly challenges those naysayers who have emphasized the deficiencies of post-war American Jewry. When placed alongside his somber alternate history of American Jews, what is noteworthy from his perspective is their actual accomplishments. For Gurock the glass of postwar American Jewry and of American Judaism is half full, not half empty." * American Jewish History *"As magical, restorative, and nearly unconceivable it is for us, his audience, to read European Jewry back into existence, Gurock directs the readers attention elsewhere in this ambitious reimagining of twentieth-century history ... This book delivers frisson upon frisson as the world we know brushes up past its fraternal twin." * The American Jewish Archives Journal *"Gurock has made a compelling contribution to the study of counterfactual history, relevant to both scholars and general reader alike." * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrologue Ghosts in the Restored Jewish Quarter in Krakow, Poland: An Entrance into Alternate Jewish HistoryChapter 1 A World at War, 1938Chapter 2 American Jewry in the Late 1930s: A Respite for an Insecure CommunityChapter 3 Conflicting Challenges for an America at Peace, 1938–1944Chapter 4 Without the “Boss”: American Jewry’s Concerns, 1940–1944Chapter 5 The Eastern European Threat and an End to U.S. Isolationism, 1944–1945Chapter 6 Divided Allegiances: American Jews and Israel, 1944–1950Chapter 7 Suburban Jewish Cul de Sacs, 1950–1960Chapter 8 The 1960s and the Trials of Acceptance for American JewsChapter 9 Unending Dilemmas: Israelis, Arabs, the World Powers, and American JewsConclusion Alternate History and the Realities of American Jewish LifeNotes

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Book SynopsisThe Holocaust has bequeathed to contemporary society a cultural lexicon of intensely powerful symbols, a vocabulary of remembrance that we draw on to comprehend the otherwise incomprehensible horror of the Shoah. Illustrated with more than forty black-and-white images, Holocaust Icons probes the history and memory of four of these symbolic relics left in the Holocaust's wake.Trade Review"Stier's work is stimulating in its erudition, especially its critical eclecticism." * Jewish Book Council *"This thoughtful, meticulous, and original study constitutes an account of the shaping of historical memory and an illustrative model of the methodology for such processes." * CHOICE *"Stier has certainly crafted an important and incisive work … Indeed, he succeeds remarkably in his overarching goal of prompting the reader to reflect very deeply." * Shofar *"Stier offers an interdisciplinary approach to the question of how and in what ways memory becomes history, focusing on the Shoah. Great for students, scholars, and lay audiences." -- Laura Levitt * Temple University *"Oren Stier has thought deeply, sensitively, and intelligently about the Holocaust and its memorialization. His profound exploration is shaped by literature and history, art and theology, mythology and cultural history. His writing is unfailingly interesting." -- Michael Berenbaum * professor of Jewish studies, American Jewish University in Los Angeles *"Stier’s book... provides a significant new resource for navigating a difficult but vital topic" -- David Tollerton * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsList of FiguresPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Holocaust Symbols: The Shapes of Memory1 Different Trains: Holocaust Artifacts and the Ideologies of Remembrance2 Thresholds of Initiation: “Arbeit Macht Frei”3 From Innocence to Experience: An Icon Comes of AgeAnne Frank as a Literary IconAnne Frank as Visual Icon4 The Holocaust as an Iconic Number: Six MillionConclusion Looking Again at Holocaust IconsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis 2017 Wiener Library Ernst Fraenkel Prize (WLEFP) Finalist The majority of European Jewish children alive in 1939 were murdered during the Holocaust. Of 1.5 million children, only an estimated 150,000 survived. In the aftermath of the Shoah, efforts by American Jews brought several thousand of these child survivors to the United States. In Child Survivors of the Holocaust, historian Beth B. Cohen weaves together survivor testimonies and archival documents to bring their story to light. She reveals that even as child survivors were resettled and “saved,” they struggled to adapt to new lives as members of adoptive families, previously unknown American Jewish kin networks, or their own survivor relatives. Nonetheless, the youngsters moved ahead. As Cohen demonstrates, the experiences both during and after the war shadowed their lives and relationships through adulthood, yet an identity as “survivors” eluded them for decades. Now, Trade Review"A little-known, sometimes disturbing, but fascinating history about children, families and the Holocaust." -- Diane L. Wolf * professor of sociology, University of California-Davis *"Cohen's unique and original study is an important, empathetic story of child survivors, a group who profoundly influences the direction of Holocaust memory and education today." -- Avinoam Patt * author of Finding Home and Homeland: Jewish Youth and Zionism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust *“Extremely well written and thoughtful, dealing respectfully and empathetically with the important and often neglected issue of child survivors…Cohen enables a range of voices to be heard." -- Fraenkel Prize Committee * Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide *"New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, May 25, 2018" by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"The work deepen[s] existing survivor scholarship, will be useful for cross-national comparisons, and will add to Jewish history and American immigration history." * Choice *"Cohen has made an important and original contribution to the historiography of children and war and Jewish children in the Holocaust and suggests a number of new areas that deserve further study." * The American Historical Review *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Abbreviations Prologue Introduction Chapter 1 Liberation: “My Hell began after the War” Chapter 2 “Our Greatest Treasures”: America Responds Chapter 3 In America: “War Orphans Find Home” Chapter 4 No Happy Endings: Postwar Reconstituted Families Chapter 5 Growing Up in America: Lingering Memories and the US Context Chapter 6 Where was God? Faith and Doubt among Child Survivors Chapter 7 “Finding a Voice for our Silence”: Claiming Identity as Child Survivors Conclusion “Memory is the Arena of Healing”: The Road to Repair Acknowledgements Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBridges to Memory claims ethnic American women’s writing as a space of trauma, memory, and postmemory. Shaped by the inheritance of past traumas of slavery and immigration, these powerful texts, discussed here with sensitivity and care, point us back to the legacies of violence and forward to a future that can practice recognition and imagine repair."" — Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University, author of The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture after the Holocaust""Maria Rice Bellamy’s Bridges to Memory chronicles how contemporary ethnic American women writers have creatively confronted the ‘seething presence’ of trauma and of trauma survivors, especially the ‘female forebears’ including mothers and grandmothers–but also motherlands and mother tongues. An arresting feature of this discussion is that the narratives of postmemory–of ‘traumatic inheritance’—include African American, Cuban American, Korean American, and Haitian American narratives by women writers all variously seeking to ‘create a new world song.’ Much as Professor Bellamy puts these authors in conversation and community with each other, she herself is communing with them and with writers and scholars including especially Toni Morrison and Marianne Hirsch. The great result is that Bridges to Memory is one of the extraordinary literary studies that advances our thoughts –and creative energies—in many fields of inquiry and imagination."" — Robert B. Stepto, Yale University, author of A Home Elsewhere: Reading African American Classics in the Age of Obama

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Book SynopsisThis set of interdisciplinary and interfaith essays undertakes a gendered analysis of women as victims, rescuers, perpetrators and survivers, as well as their representation by post-war artists.

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Book SynopsisAn intimate history of the Holocaust that casts new light on our understanding of victimhood and survival.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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