American Responses to the Holocaust: Transatlantic Perspectives

by Hans Krabbendam (Editor), Derek Rubin (Editor)

Overview

This collection puts the topic of Jewish Studies and Holocaust studies in a new American studies perspective. This perspective compares the similarities and differences in responses and their transatlantic interaction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631719664
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	06/30/2017
Edition description:	New
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hans Krabbendam is Director of the Catholic Documentation Center in Nijmegen. He served as Assistant Director of the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg, the Netherlands.

Derek Rubin taught at the English Department and for the American Studies program at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Table of Contents

Holocaust historiography – Philanthropy – European reception – Diplomacy – Austrian drama – Italian debates on Holocaust films – American response to reports about the Nazi extermination campaign – Echoes of the Shoah – Resettlement of Budapest’s Jews – American Jewish Organizations in France.