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Krosno by the Wislok River - Memorial Book of Jewish Community of Krosno, Poland (Hardcover): William Leibner Krosno by the Wislok River - Memorial Book of Jewish Community of Krosno, Poland (Hardcover)
William Leibner; Edited by Jane W Aronson, Toby Bird
R1,478 R1,263 Discovery Miles 12 630 Save R215 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Maus I & II Paperback Box Set (Book): Art Spiegelman Maus I & II Paperback Box Set (Book)
Art Spiegelman 1
R730 R662 Discovery Miles 6 620 Save R68 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A SPECIAL-EDITION BOXSET CREATED TO CELEBRATE THE PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING GRAPHIC NOVEL'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY 'The first masterpiece in comic book history' The New Yorker 'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust' Wall Street Journal A brutally moving work of art -- widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written -- MAUS recounts the chilling experiences of the author's father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats. Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma. This paperback box set includes MAUS in its original two-volume format, re-released with an exclusive sixteen-page booklet designed by the artist himself. ___________________________________________________________________________ 'A brutally moving work of art' Boston Globe 'No summary can do justice to Spiegelman's narrative skill' Adam Gopnik 'Like all great stories, it tells us more about ourselves than we could ever suspect' Philip Pullman 'A capital-G Genius' Michael Chabon

Learning from History - A Black Christian's Perspective on the Holocaust (Hardcover): Hubert Locke Learning from History - A Black Christian's Perspective on the Holocaust (Hardcover)
Hubert Locke
R2,206 Discovery Miles 22 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Because the Holocaust, at its core, was an extreme expression of a devastating racism, the author contends it has special significance for African Americans. Locke, a university professor, clergyman, and African American, reflects on the common experiences of African American and Jewish people as minorities and on the great tragedy that each community has experienced in its history--slavery and the Holocaust. Without attempting to equate the experiences of African Americans to the experiences of European Jews during the Holocaust, the author does show how aspects of the Holocaust, its impact on the Jewish community worldwide, and the long-lasting consequences relate to slavery, the civil rights movement, and the current status of African Americans.

Written from a Christian perspective, this book argues that the implications of the Holocaust touch all people, and that it is a major mistake to view the Holocaust as an exclusively Jewish event. Instead, the author asks whether it is possible for both African Americans and Jewish Americans to learn from the experience of the other regarding the common threat that minority people confront in Western societies. Locke focuses on the themes of parochialism and patriotism and reexamines the role of the Christian churches during the Holocaust in an effort to challenge some of the prevailing views in Holocaust studies.

The Hut Six Story - Breaking the Enigma Codes (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Gordon Welchman The Hut Six Story - Breaking the Enigma Codes (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Gordon Welchman
R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
In the Time of Madmen (Hardcover): Mark A. Prelas In the Time of Madmen (Hardcover)
Mark A. Prelas
R696 Discovery Miles 6 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Growth and Destruction of the Community of Uscilug (Ustilug, Ukraine) (Hardcover): Rachel Kolokoff Hopper The Growth and Destruction of the Community of Uscilug (Ustilug, Ukraine) (Hardcover)
Rachel Kolokoff Hopper; Index compiled by Jonathan Wind; Edited by Aryeh Avinadav
R1,087 Discovery Miles 10 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Heavenly Serbia - From Myth to Genocide (Hardcover): Branimir Anzulovic Heavenly Serbia - From Myth to Genocide (Hardcover)
Branimir Anzulovic
R3,411 Discovery Miles 34 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As violence and turmoil continue to define the former Yugoslavia, basic questions remain unanswered: What are the forces behind the Serbian expansionist drive that has brought death and destruction to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo? How did the Serbs rationalize, and rally support for, this genocidal activity?

Heavenly Serbia traces Serbia's nationalist and expansionist impulses to the legendary battle of Kosovo in 1389. Anzulovic shows how the myth of "Heavenly Serbia" developed to help the Serbs endure foreign domination, explaining their military defeat and the loss of their medieval state by emphasizing their own moral superiority over military victory. Heavenly Serbia shows how this myth resulted in an aggressive nationalist ideology which has triumphed in the late twentieth century and marginalized those Serbs who strive for the establishment of a civil society.

"Modern Serbian nationalism...and its contradictory connections...have been sources of considerable scholarly interest...Branimir Anzulovic's compendium is a good example of the genre, made all the more useful by Anzulovic's excellent command of the literature."
--Ivo Banac, "History of Religions"

Author interview with CNN: http: //www.cnn.com/chat/transcripts/branimir_chat.html

The Journey of Markus Orbach (Hardcover): Mark Orbach The Journey of Markus Orbach (Hardcover)
Mark Orbach
R660 Discovery Miles 6 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
My Middle Name is Israel - A Wartime Memoir of Berlin, London and Shanghai (Hardcover): Hans Ludwig Riess My Middle Name is Israel - A Wartime Memoir of Berlin, London and Shanghai (Hardcover)
Hans Ludwig Riess
R700 Discovery Miles 7 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Steadfast Ink - The Journey Within (Hardcover): Joanie Holzer Schirm Steadfast Ink - The Journey Within (Hardcover)
Joanie Holzer Schirm
R840 R734 Discovery Miles 7 340 Save R106 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Miracle Child - The Journey of a Young Holocaust Survivor (Hardcover): Anita Epstein Miracle Child - The Journey of a Young Holocaust Survivor (Hardcover)
Anita Epstein; As told to Noel Epstein
R2,820 Discovery Miles 28 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This memoir is about a Jewish baby born in the Krakow ghetto in November 1942, three years after Hitler conquered Poland, and, remarkably, escaping death-one of a mere one half of one percent of Jewish children in Poland who survived during the Nazi era. Her life was saved because her parents hid her with a Catholic family. Just as remarkably, her mother, still alive after suffering terribly through four of Hitler's camps, traveled for weeks back to Poland and found her again. The book also depicts the author's postwar challenges in Germany and America.

Nazi Conspiracy And Aggression - Volume V (The Red Series) (Hardcover): United States Government Nazi Conspiracy And Aggression - Volume V (The Red Series) (Hardcover)
United States Government
R2,072 Discovery Miles 20 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Women in European Holocaust Films - Perpetrators, Victims and Resisters (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Ingrid Lewis Women in European Holocaust Films - Perpetrators, Victims and Resisters (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Ingrid Lewis
R3,153 Discovery Miles 31 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book considers how women's experiences have been treated in films dealing with Nazi persecution. Focusing on fiction films made in Europe between 1945 and the present, this study explores dominant discourses on and cinematic representation of women as perpetrators, victims and resisters. Ingrid Lewis contends that European Holocaust Cinema underwent a rich and complex trajectory of change with regard to the representation of women. This change both reflects and responds to key socio-cultural developments in the intervening decades as well as to new directions in cinema, historical research and politics of remembrance. The book will appeal to international scholars, students and educators within the fields of Holocaust Studies, Film Studies, European Cinema and Women's Studies.

Nazi Conspiracy And Aggression - Volume IV (The Red Series) (Hardcover): United States Government Nazi Conspiracy And Aggression - Volume IV (The Red Series) (Hardcover)
United States Government
R2,072 Discovery Miles 20 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Microhistories of the Holocaust (Paperback): Claire Zalc, Tal Bruttmann Microhistories of the Holocaust (Paperback)
Claire Zalc, Tal Bruttmann
R897 Discovery Miles 8 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How does scale affect our understanding of the Holocaust? In the vastness of its implementation and the sheer amount of death and suffering it produced, the genocide of Europe's Jews presents special challenges for historians, who have responded with work ranging in scope from the world-historical to the intimate. In particular, recent scholarship has demonstrated a willingness to study the Holocaust at scales as focused as a single neighborhood, family, or perpetrator. This volume brings together an international cast of scholars to reflect on the ongoing microhistorical turn in Holocaust studies, assessing its historiographical pitfalls as well as the distinctive opportunities it affords researchers.

Searching for Meaning in the Holocaust (Hardcover): Sidney M. Bolkosky Searching for Meaning in the Holocaust (Hardcover)
Sidney M. Bolkosky
R2,187 Discovery Miles 21 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Scholars, survivors, and other interested parties have offered, over the years, their own interpretations of the meaning of the Holocaust and the lessons we can learn from it. However, the quest to find a rational explanation for this seemingly irrational course of events has led to both controversy and continued efforts at assigning meaning to this most horrible of events. Examining oral histories provided by survivors, written accounts and explanations, scholarly analysis, and commonly held assumptions, Bolkosky challenges the usual collection of platitudes about the lessons or the meanings we can derive from the Holocaust. Indeed, he argues against the kind of reductionism that such a quest for meaning has led to, and he analyzes the nature of the perpetrators in order to support his position on the inconclusivity of the study of the Holocaust.

Dealing with the perpetrators of the Holocaust as manifestations of twentieth century civilized trends foreseen by the likes of Kafka, Ortega y Gassett, Arthur Koestler and Max Weber, Bolkosky suggests a new nature of evil and criminality along the lines developed by Hannah Arendt, Raul Hilberg, and Richard Rosenstein. Woven into the fabric of the text are insights from literary and historical writers, sociologists, and philosophers. This interdisciplinary attempt to shed new light on efforts to determine the meanings and lessons of the Holocaust provides readers with a challenging approach to considering the oral histories of survivors and the popular and professional assumptions surrounding this devastating moment in history.

The Diary That Changed the World - The Remarkable Story of Otto Frank and the Diary of Anne Frank (Paperback): Karen Bartlett The Diary That Changed the World - The Remarkable Story of Otto Frank and the Diary of Anne Frank (Paperback)
Karen Bartlett
R533 Discovery Miles 5 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

When Otto Frank unwrapped his daughter's diary with trembling hands and began to read the first pages, he discovered a side to Anne that was as much a revelation to him as it would be to the rest of the world. Little did Otto know he was about to create an icon recognised the world over for her bravery, sometimes brutal teenage honesty and determination to see beauty even where its light was most hidden. Nor did he realise that publication would spark a bitter battle that would embroil him in years of legal contest and eventually drive him to a nervous breakdown and a new life in Switzerland. Today, more than seventy-five years after Anne's death, the diary is at the centre of a multi-million-pound industry, with competing foundations, cultural critics and former friends and relatives fighting for the right to control it. In this insightful and wide-ranging account, Karen Bartlett tells the full story of The Diary of Anne Frank, the highly controversial part it played in twentieth-century history, and its fundamental role in shaping our understanding of the Holocaust. At the same time, she sheds new light on the life and character of Otto Frank, the complex, driven and deeply human figure who lived in the shadows of the terrible events that robbed him of his family, while he painstakingly crafted and controlled his daughter's story.

Memorial Book of Nowy Zmigrod - Galicia, Poland (Hardcover): William Leibner Memorial Book of Nowy Zmigrod - Galicia, Poland (Hardcover)
William Leibner; Edited by Waldman Jane Aronson
R1,302 R1,109 Discovery Miles 11 090 Save R193 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Journal (Paperback): Helene Berr Journal (Paperback)
Helene Berr; Translated by David Bellos 1
R334 Discovery Miles 3 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays the violin and she seeks refuge from the everyday in what she calls the "selfish magic" of English literature and poetry. But this is Paris under the occupation and her family is Jewish. Eventually, there comes the time when all Jews are required to wear a yellow star. She tries to remain calm and rational, keeping to what routine she can: studying, reading, enjoying the beauty of Paris. Yet always there is fear for the future, and eventually, in March 1944, Helene and her family are arrested, taken to Drancy Transit Camp and soon sent to Auschwitz. She went - as is later discovered - on the death march to Bergen-Belsen and there she died in 1945, only five days before the liberation of the camp. The last words in the journal she had left behind in Paris were "Horror! Horror! Horror!", a hideous and poignant echo of her English studies. Helene Berr's story is almost too painful to read, foreshadowing horror as it does amidst an enviable appetite for life, for beauty, for literature, for all that lasts.

The Plunder of Jewish Property during the Holocaust - Confronting European History (Hardcover): A. Beker The Plunder of Jewish Property during the Holocaust - Confronting European History (Hardcover)
A. Beker
R2,905 Discovery Miles 29 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

More than fifty years after the Holocaust, European and other countries are confronting newly-emerging memories and guilt-filled ghosts from the past. The campaign for the restitution of Jewish property stolen during the Holocaust touched a raw nerve within European society and, together with the end of the Cold War and generational change, created a need to re-evaluate conventional historical truths. A group of experts joined together to review in this book how the issue was dealt with in different countries and how national myths must be re-examined.

Microhistories of the Holocaust (Hardcover): Claire Zalc, Tal Bruttmann Microhistories of the Holocaust (Hardcover)
Claire Zalc, Tal Bruttmann
R3,030 Discovery Miles 30 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How does scale affect our understanding of the Holocaust? In the vastness of its implementation and the sheer amount of death and suffering it produced, the genocide of Europe's Jews presents special challenges for historians, who have responded with work ranging in scope from the world-historical to the intimate. In particular, recent scholarship has demonstrated a willingness to study the Holocaust at scales as focused as a single neighborhood, family, or perpetrator. This volume brings together an international cast of scholars to reflect on the ongoing microhistorical turn in Holocaust studies, assessing its historiographical pitfalls as well as the distinctive opportunities it affords researchers.

Embracing the Other - Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism (Hardcover): Pearl Oliner, Samuel... Embracing the Other - Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism (Hardcover)
Pearl Oliner, Samuel P. Oliner, Lawrence Baron, Lawrence Blum
R3,150 Discovery Miles 31 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Intelligently addresses several of the most important unresolved issues and controversies about altruism."
--"The Journal of Politics"

All but buried for most of the twentieth century, the concept of altruism has re-emerged in this last quarter as a focus of intense scholarly inquiry and general public interest. In the wake of increased consciousness of the human potential for destructiveness, both scholars and the general public are seeking interventions which will not only inhibit the process, but may in fact chart a new creative path toward a global community. Largely initiated by a group of pioneering social psychologists, early questions on altruism centered on its motivation and development primarily in the context of contrived laboratory experiments. Although publications on the topic have been considerable over the last several years, and now represent the work of representatives from many disciplines of inquiry, this volume is distinguished from others in several ways.

"Embracing the Other" emerged primarily as a response to recent research on an extraordinary manifestation of real-life altruism, namely to recent studies of non-Jewish rescuers of Jews during World War II. It is the work of a multi-disciplinary and international group of scholars, including philosophers, social psychologists, historians, sociologists, and educators, challenging several prevailing conceptual definitions and motivational sources of altruism. The book combines both new empirical and historical research as well as theoretical and philosophical approaches and includes a lengthy section addressing the practical implications of current thinking on altruism for society at large. The resultis a multi-textured work, addressing critical issues in varied disciplines, while centered on shared themes.

Strange Fire - Reading the Bible after the Holocaust (Hardcover): Tod Linafelt Strange Fire - Reading the Bible after the Holocaust (Hardcover)
Tod Linafelt
R3,119 Discovery Miles 31 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

There can be little doubt that the Holocaust was an event of major consequence for the twentieth century. While there have been innumerable volumes published on the implications of the Holocaust for history, philosophy, and ethics, there has been a surprising lack of attention paid to the theoretical and practical effects of the Shoah on biblical interpretation.

Strange Fire addresses the implications of the Holocaust for interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, bringing together a diverse and distinguished range of contributors, including Richard Rubenstein, Elie Wiesel, and Walter Brueggemann, to discuss theoretical and methodological considerations emerging from the Shoah and to demonstrate the importance of these considerations in the reading of specific biblical texts. The volume addresses such issues as Jewish and Christian biblical theology after the Holocaust, the ethics of Christian appropriation of Jewish scripture, and the rethinking of biblical models of suffering and sacrifice from a post-Holocaust perspective.

The first book of its kind, Strange Fire will establish a benchmark for all future work on the topic.

The Holocaust and Historical Methodology (Hardcover): Dan Stone The Holocaust and Historical Methodology (Hardcover)
Dan Stone
R3,028 Discovery Miles 30 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as important for understanding the Holocaust-and, by extension, any past event-as is archival research. It aims to go beyond the dominant paradigm of political history and describe the emergence of methods now being used to reconstruct the past in the context of Holocaust historiography.

Hitler - Films from Germany - History, Cinema and Politics since 1945 (Hardcover): K. Machtans, M. Ruehl Hitler - Films from Germany - History, Cinema and Politics since 1945 (Hardcover)
K. Machtans, M. Ruehl
R1,532 Discovery Miles 15 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The first book-length study to critically examine the recent wave of Hitler biopics in German cinema and television. A group of international experts discuss films like "Downfall" in the context of earlier portrayals of Hitler and draw out their implications for the changing place of the Third Reich in the national historical imagination.

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