{"product_id":"gray-zones-ambiguity-and-compromise-in-the-holocaust-and-its-aftermath-9781845450717","title":"Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tFew essays about the Holocaust are better known or more important than Primo Levi’s reflections on what he called “the gray zone,” a reality in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. In this volume accomplished Holocaust scholars, among them Raul Hilberg, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Christopher Browning, Peter Hayes, and Lynn Rapaport, explore the terrain that Levi identified. Together they bring a necessary interdisciplinary focus to bear on timely and often controversial topics in cutting-edge Holocaust studies that range from historical analysis to popular culture. While each essay utilizes a particular methodology and argues for its own thesis, the volume as a whole advances the claim that the more we learn about the Holocaust, the more complex that event turns out to be. Only if ambiguities and compromises in the Holocaust and its aftermath are identified, explored, and at times allowed to remain--lest resolution deceive us--will our awareness of the Holocaust and its implications be as full as possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"...a useful addition to Holocaust historiography and literature. It is accessible for students and teachers as well as the general reader. It provides a taste of what the world of Holocaust scholarship is actively engaged in--the constant exploration and understanding of the history of the murder of the Jews of Europe and the ongoing effect of these events on the world today. Hopefully, this book will stimulate others to read further and deeper.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e   · H-German\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePrologue: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Gray Zones of the Holocaust\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJonathan Petropoulos and John K. Roth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Ambiguity and Compromise in Writing and Depicting Holocaust History\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Ambiguities of Evil and Justice: Degussa, Robert Pross, and the Jewish Slave Laborers at Gleiwitz\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePeter Hayes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e “Alleviation” and “Compliance”: The Survival Strategies of the Jewish Leadership in the Wierzbnik Ghetto and the Starachowice Factory Slave Labor Camps\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChristopher R. Browning\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Between Sanity and Insanity: Spheres of Everyday Life in the Auschwitz-Birkenau \u003cem\u003eSonderkommando\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGideon Greif\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eSonderkommando\u003c\/em\u003e: Testimony from \u003cem\u003eEvidence\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMichael Berenbaum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003eA Commentary on “Gray Zones” in Raul Hilberg’s Work\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGerhard L. Weinberg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tChapter 6. Incompleteness in Holocaust Historiography\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRaul Hilberg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Identity, Gender, and Sexuality During and After the Third Reich\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Choiceless Choices: Surviving on False Papers on the “Aryan” Side\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRobert Melson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e “Who Am I?” The Struggle for Religious Identity of Jewish Children Hidden by Christians During the Shoah\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eEva Fleischner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBryan Mark Rigg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e A Gray Zone Among the Field Gray Men: Confusion in the Discrimination Against Homosexuals in the \u003cem\u003eWehrmacht\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGeoffrey J. Giles\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Pleasure and Evil: Christianity and the Sexualization of Holocaust Memory\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDagmar Herzog\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Gender of Good and Evil: Women and Holocaust Memory\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSara R. Horowitz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: Gray Spaces: Geographical and Imaginative Landscapes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e Hitler’s “Garden of Eden” in Ukraine: Nazi Colonialism, \u003cem\u003eVolksdeutsche\u003c\/em\u003e, and the Holocaust, 1941–1944\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWendy Lower\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/strong\u003e Life and Death in the “Gray Zone” of Jewish Ghettos in Nazi-Occupied Europe: The Unknown, the Ambiguous, and the Disappeared\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMartin Dean\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 15.\u003c\/strong\u003e “Almost-Camps” in Paris: The Difficult Description of Three Annexes of Drancy—Austerlitz, Lévitan, and Bassano, July 1943 to August 1944\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJean-Marc Dreyfus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 16.\u003c\/strong\u003e Alternate Holocausts and the Mistrust of Memory\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGavriel D. Rosenfeld\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 17.\u003c\/strong\u003e Laughter and Heartache: The Functions of Humor in Holocaust Tragedy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLynn Rapaport\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 18.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Holocaust in Popular Culture: Master-Narrative and Counter-Narratives in the Gray Zone\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRonald Smelser\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 19.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Grey Zone\u003c\/em\u003e: The Cinema of Choiceless Choices\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLawrence Baron\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart IV: Justice, Religion, and Ethics During and After the Holocaust\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 20.\u003c\/strong\u003e Gray into Black: The Case of Mordecai Chaim Rumkowski\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRichard L. Rubenstein\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 21.\u003c\/strong\u003e Catalyzing Fascism: Academic Science in National Socialist Germany and Afterward\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJeffrey Lewis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 22.\u003c\/strong\u003e Postwar Justice and the Treatment of Nazi Assets\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJonathan Petropoulos\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 23.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Gray Zones of Holocaust Restitution: American Justice and Holocaust Morality\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMichael J. Bazyler\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 24.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Creation of Ethical “Gray Zones” in the German Protestant Church: Reflections on the Historical Quest for Ethical Clarity\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eVictoria J. Barnett\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 25.\u003c\/strong\u003e Gray-Zoned Ethics: Morality’s Double Binds During and After the Holocaust\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJohn K. Roth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eEpilogue: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Intense Wish to Understand\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJonathan Petropoulos and John K. Roth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tSelect Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tAbout the Editors and Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042963325271,"sku":"9781845450717","price":96.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845450717.jpg?v=1750956421","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gray-zones-ambiguity-and-compromise-in-the-holocaust-and-its-aftermath-9781845450717","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}