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Book SynopsisFew scholarly fields have developed in recent decades as rapidly and vigorously as Holocaust Studies. At the start of the twenty-first century, the persecution and murder perpetrated by the Nazi regime have become the subjects of an enormous literature in multiple academic disciplines and a touchstone of public and intellectual discourse in such diverse fields as politics, ethics and religion. Forward-looking and multi-disciplinary, this handbook draws on the work of an international team of forty-seven outstanding scholars. The handbook is thematically divided into five broad sections. Part One, Enablers, concentrates on the broad and necessary contextual conditions for the Holocaust. Part Two, Protagonists, concentrates on the principal persons and groups involved in the Holocaust and attempts to disaggregate the conventional interpretive categories of perpetrator, victim, and bystander. It examines the agency of the Nazi leaders and killers and of those involved in resisting and sur
Trade ReviewWhat the book brings instead are useful, intelligent, judicious, and lucidly written summaries of the current scholarly consensus on key issues within the field. The ideal user-I deliberately say user and not reader-is a scholar of some related field, who, for purposes of research or teaching, needs to get a grasp on a particular aspect of the Holocaust without having to master a large body of secondary literature. * Andrew N. Koss Religious Studies Review *
To capture the current state of the field, the editors invited contributions from Holocaust scholars of the second and third generations a decision that pays off handsomely ... It should be purchased by every university library in institutions where courses on the Holocaust are taught. * Donald G. Schilling, Holocaust and Genocide Studies *
Table of ContentsI: ENABLERS; II: PROTAGONISTS; III: SETTINGS; IV: REPRESENTATIONS; V: AFTEREFFECTS
