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A Companion to the Holocaust / Edition 1
- ISBN-10:
- 1118970527
- ISBN-13:
- 9781118970522
- Pub. Date:
- 06/02/2020
- Publisher:
- Wiley
A Companion to the Holocaust / Edition 1
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Holocaust Studies is a dynamic field that encompasses discussions on human behavior, extremity, and moral action. A diverse range of disciplines – history, philosophy, literature, social psychology, anthropology, geography, amongst others – continue to make important contributions to its scholarship.
A Companion to the Holocaust provides exciting commentaries on current and emerging debates and identifies new connections for research. The text incorporates new language, geographies, and approaches to address the precursors of the Holocaust and examine its global consequences. A team of international contributors provides insightful and sophisticated analyses of current trends in Holocaust research that go far beyond common conceptions of the Holocaust’s causes, unfolding and impact.
Scholars draw on their original research to interpret current, agenda-setting historical and historiographical debates on the Holocaust. Six broad sections cover wide-ranging topics such as new debates about Nazi perpetrators, arguments about the causes and places of persecution of Jews in Germany and Europe, and Jewish and non-Jewish responses to it, the use of forced labor in the German war economy, representations of the Holocaust witness, and many others. A masterful framing chapter sets the direction and tone of each section’s themes. Comprising over thirty essays, this important addition to Holocaust studies:
- Offers a remarkable compendium of systematic, comparative, and precise analyses
- Covers areas and topics not included in any other companion of its type
- Examines the ongoing cultural, social, and political legacies of the Holocaust
- Includes discussions on non-European and non-Western geographies, inter-ethnic tensions, and violence
A Companion to the Holocaust is an essential resource for students and scholars of European, German, genocide, colonial and Jewish history, as well as those in the general humanities.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781118970522 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 06/02/2020 |
Series: | Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History |
Pages: | 704 |
Product dimensions: | 6.90(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.80(d) |
About the Author
Hilary Earl is a Professor of European History at Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario, Canada. She is the author of the award-winning book, The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History.
Table of Contents
Notes on Editors and Contributors ixIntroduction 1Simone Gigliotti and Hilary Earl
Theme 1 New Orientations and Topical Integrations 19
1 “Final Solution,” Holocaust, Shoah, or Genocide? From Separate to Integrated Histories 21Devin O. Pendas
2 Raphael Lemkin and Genocide before the Holocaust: Ethnic and Religious Minorities under Attack 45Cathie Carmichael
3 Ideologies of Race: The Construction and Suppression of Otherness in Nazi Germany 59Dan Stone
4 Queering Holocaust Studies: New Frameworks for Understanding Nazi Homophobia and the Politics of Sexuality under National Socialism 75William J. Spurlin
5 The Holocaust as Genocide: Milestones in the Historiographical Discourse 95Daniel Blatman
Theme 2 Plunder, Extermination, and Prosecution 115
6 Old Nazis, Ordinary Men, and New Killers: Synthetic and Divergent Histories of Perpetrators 117Edward B. Westermann
7 The Nazi War Economy, the Forced Labor System, and the Murde of Jewish and Non‐Jewish Workers 135Mark Spoerer
8 All the Other Neighbors: Communal Genocide in Eastern Europe 153Waitman Wade Beorn
9 War Crimes Trials, the Holocaust, and Historiography, 1943–2011 173Kim Christian Priemel
10 Crimes against Culture: From Plunder to Postwar Restitution Politics 191Bianca Gaudenzi
Theme 3 Reframing Jewish Histories 209
11 Characteristics of Holocaust Historiography and Their Contexts since 1990: Emphases, Perceptions, Developments, Debates 211Dan Michman
12 A Sustained Civilian Struggle: Rethinking Jewish Responses to the Nazi Regime 233David Engel
13 Ghettos and Ghettoization – History and Historiography 247Guy Miron
14 Survivors of the Holocaust within the Nazi Universe of Camps 263Martin C. Dean
15 Social Networks of Support: Trajectories of Escape, Rescue and Survival 279Natalia Aleksiun
16 A Young Person’s War: The Disrupted Lives of Children and Youth 295Joanna B. Michlic
17 Anything But Silent: Jewish Responses to the Holocaust in the Aftermath of World War II 311Elisabeth Gallas and Laura Jockusch
Theme 4 Local, Mobile, and Transnational Holocausts 331
18 Geographies of the Holocaust 333Tim Cole
19 The Global “Final Solution” and Nazi Imperialism 349Gerhard L. Weinberg
20 Refugees’ Routes: Emigration, Resettlement, and Transmigration 363Susanne Heim
21 The Geopolitics of Neutrality: Diplomacy, Refuge, and Rescue during the Holocaust 381David A. Messenger
22 Spain and the Holocaust: Contested Past, Contested Present 397Alejandro Baer and Pedro Correa
23 Contesting the “Zionist” Narrative: Arab Responses to the Holocaust 413Esther Webman
24 Redrawing Holocaust Geographies: A Cartography of Vichy and Nazi Reach into North Africa 431Aomar Boum
Theme 5 Witnessing in Dialogue: Testifiers, Readers, and Viewers 449
25 The Holocaust Witness: Wartime and Postwar Voices 451Alan Rosen
26 Sexual Violence: Recovering a Suppressed History 469Monika J. Flaschka
27 Ethical Grey Zones: On Coercion and Complicity in the Concentration Camp and Beyond 487Jonathan Druker
28 Holocaust Photography and the Challenge of the Visual 503Carol Zemel
29 Holocaust Memory in a Post‐Survivor World: Bearing Lasting Witness 519Nicholas Chare
30 Postmemory: Digital Testimony and the Future of Witnessing 537Noah Shenker
Theme 6 Human Rights and Visual Culture: Pivots and Disruptions 553
31 The Problem of Human Rights after the Holocaust 555Valerie Hébert
32 Indigenous Genocide and Perceptions of the Holocaust in Canada 577David B. MacDonald
33 Lessons from History? The Future of Holocaust Education 599Avril Alba
34 The Changing Landscape of Holocaust Memorialization in Poland 619Amanda F. Grzyb
35 #Holocaust #Auschwitz: Performing Holocaust Memory on Social Media 639Meghan Lundrigan
36 Contemporary Holocaust Film Beyond Mimetic Imperatives 657Daniel H. Magilow
Index 673