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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
