Beginnings, Mass Murder, and Aftermath of the Holocaust: Where History and Psychology Intersect

by Norman Solkoff

Overview

Beginnings, Mass Murder, and Aftermath of the Holocaust attempts to sensitize individuals to the tragic results of a racist world outlook, as well as make clear to them how complicated are the series of steps that take the individual from the expression of racist sentiments and mild expressions of anti-Semitism to outright genocide. The text shows the complex ways in which politics, economics, culture, and social forces interacted with individual motivations to produce the Holocaust. A useful supplementary text for students in European History courses, students in Clinical and Social Psychology courses, and for students in Judaic Studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761820284
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	05/23/2001
Edition description:	ANN
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Norman Solkoff is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of SUNY Buffalo.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 Introduction Chapter 5 Antisemitism Chapter 6 Authoritarianism and Conformity Chapter 7 Aggression and Violence Chapter 8 Practicing for Genocide: Euthanasia in Nazi Germany Chapter 9 Hitler Chapter 10 Leading Nazis Chapter 11 Surviving the Ghettos and Camps Chapter 12 Complicity or Resistance Chapter 13 Rescuers and Bystanders Chapter 14 Holocaust Survivors in the Postwar World Chapter 15 Explaining the Past and Predicting the Future Chapter 16 Remembering the Holocaust Chapter 17 References Chapter 18 Index

Editorial Reviews

This book offers an interesting angle within the psychohistorical tradition...

American Journal Of Orthopsychiatry

...Solkoff has written an innovative and interesting book. He brings a structured, integrative organization to the explanation of prejudice, coping, grief, courage, the capacity for unimaginable evil, and other phenomena of interest to psychologicallyminded students of the Holocaust.

Holocaust and Genocide Studies - Allan Fenigstein

This is a work based on considerable scholarship by one who has reflected on these issues for many years.

German Studies Review - Donald G. Tannenbaum

This is a work based on considerable scholarship by one who has reflected on these issues for many years.--Donald G. Tannenbaum, Gettysburg College "German Studies Review "

This book offers an interesting angle within the psychohistorical tradition...--American Journal Of Orthopsychiatry

...Solkoff has written an innovative and interesting book. He brings a structured, integrative organization to the explanation of prejudice, coping, grief, courage, the capacity for unimaginable evil, and other phenomena of interest to psychologically minded students of the Holocaust.--Allan Fenigstein, Kenyon College "Holocaust and Genocide Studies "

From the Publisher

This is a work based on considerable scholarship by one who has reflected on these issues for many years.
— Donald G. Tannenbaum, Gettysburg College

German Studies Review

...Solkoff has written an innovative and interesting book. He brings a structured, integrative organization to the explanation of prejudice, coping, grief, courage, the capacity for unimaginable evil, and other phenomena of interest to psychologically minded students of the Holocaust.
— Allan Fenigstein, Kenyon College

Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Drawing on 15 years of team teaching an interdisciplinary course on the subject at SUNY Buffalo, clinical psychologist Solkoff presents a psychohistorical approach to understanding the Holocaust. Throughout the text, Solkoff analyzes how politics, economics, culture, social forces, and, in particular, psychological factors interacted with individual motivations to produce the Holocaust. Twelve chapters explore such topics as anti-Semitism, authoritarianism, violence, euthanasia in Nazi Germany, Hitler, surviving the ghettos and camps, rescuers and bystanders, and Holocaust survivors in the postwar world. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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