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Book SynopsisProvides a cutting-edge, nuanced, and multi-disciplinary picture of the Holocaust from local, transnational, continental, and global perspectives Holocaust Studies is a dynamic field that encompasses discussions on human behavior, extremity, and moral action. A diverse range of disciplines history, philosophy, literature, social psychology, anthropology, geography, amongst others continue to make important contributions to its scholarship. A Companion to the Holocaustprovides exciting commentaries on current and emerging debates and identifies new connections for research. The text incorporates new language, geographies, and approaches to address the precursors of the Holocaust and examine its global consequences. A team of international contributors provides insightful and sophisticated analyses of current trends in Holocaust research that go far beyond common conceptions of the Holocaust's causes, unfolding and impact. Scholars draw on their original research to interpret curr
Table of ContentsNotes on Editors and Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Simone Gigliotti and Hilary Earl
Theme 1 New Orientations and Topical Integrations 19
1 “Final Solution,” Holocaust, Shoah, or Genocide? From Separate to Integrated Histories 21
Devin O. Pendas
2 Raphael Lemkin and Genocide before the Holocaust: Ethnic and Religious Minorities under Attack 45
Cathie Carmichael
3 Ideologies of Race: The Construction and Suppression of Otherness in Nazi Germany 59
Dan Stone
4 Queering Holocaust Studies: New Frameworks for Understanding Nazi Homophobia and the Politics of Sexuality under National Socialism 75
William J. Spurlin
5 The Holocaust as Genocide: Milestones in the Historiographical Discourse 95
Daniel Blatman
Theme 2 Plunder, Extermination, and Prosecution 115
6 Old Nazis, Ordinary Men, and New Killers: Synthetic and Divergent Histories of Perpetrators 117
Edward B. Westermann
7 The Nazi War Economy, the Forced Labor System, and the Murde of Jewish and Non‐Jewish Workers 135
Mark Spoerer
8 All the Other Neighbors: Communal Genocide in Eastern Europe 153
Waitman Wade Beorn
9 War Crimes Trials, the Holocaust, and Historiography, 1943–2011 173
Kim Christian Priemel
10 Crimes against Culture: From Plunder to Postwar Restitution Politics 191
Bianca Gaudenzi
Theme 3 Reframing Jewish Histories 209
11 Characteristics of Holocaust Historiography and Their Contexts since 1990: Emphases, Perceptions, Developments, Debates 211
Dan Michman
12 A Sustained Civilian Struggle: Rethinking Jewish Responses to the Nazi Regime 233
David Engel
13 Ghettos and Ghettoization – History and Historiography 247
Guy Miron
14 Survivors of the Holocaust within the Nazi Universe of Camps 263
Martin C. Dean
15 Social Networks of Support: Trajectories of Escape, Rescue and Survival 279
Natalia Aleksiun
16 A Young Person’s War: The Disrupted Lives of Children and Youth 295
Joanna B. Michlic
17 Anything But Silent: Jewish Responses to the Holocaust in the Aftermath of World War II 311
Elisabeth Gallas and Laura Jockusch
Theme 4 Local, Mobile, and Transnational Holocausts 331
18 Geographies of the Holocaust 333
Tim Cole
19 The Global “Final Solution” and Nazi Imperialism 349
Gerhard L. Weinberg
20 Refugees’ Routes: Emigration, Resettlement, and Transmigration 363
Susanne Heim
21 The Geopolitics of Neutrality: Diplomacy, Refuge, and Rescue during the Holocaust 381
David A. Messenger
22 Spain and the Holocaust: Contested Past, Contested Present 397
Alejandro Baer and Pedro Correa
23 Contesting the “Zionist” Narrative: Arab Responses to the Holocaust 413
Esther Webman
24 Redrawing Holocaust Geographies: A Cartography of Vichy and Nazi Reach into North Africa 431
Aomar Boum
Theme 5 Witnessing in Dialogue: Testifiers, Readers, and Viewers 449
25 The Holocaust Witness: Wartime and Postwar Voices 451
Alan Rosen
26 Sexual Violence: Recovering a Suppressed History 469
Monika J. Flaschka
27 Ethical Grey Zones: On Coercion and Complicity in the Concentration Camp and Beyond 487
Jonathan Druker
28 Holocaust Photography and the Challenge of the Visual 503
Carol Zemel
29 Holocaust Memory in a Post‐Survivor World: Bearing Lasting Witness 519
Nicholas Chare
30 Postmemory: Digital Testimony and the Future of Witnessing 537
Noah Shenker
Theme 6 Human Rights and Visual Culture: Pivots and Disruptions 553
31 The Problem of Human Rights after the Holocaust 555
Valerie Hébert
32 Indigenous Genocide and Perceptions of the Holocaust in Canada 577
David B. MacDonald
33 Lessons from History? The Future of Holocaust Education 599
Avril Alba
34 The Changing Landscape of Holocaust Memorialization in Poland 619
Amanda F. Grzyb
35 #Holocaust #Auschwitz: Performing Holocaust Memory on Social Media 639
Meghan Lundrigan
36 Contemporary Holocaust Film Beyond Mimetic Imperatives 657
Daniel H. Magilow
Index 673
