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Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film (Hardcover, New): Matthew Boswell Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film (Hardcover, New)
Matthew Boswell
R1,524 Discovery Miles 15 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Surveying irreverent and controversial representations of the Holocaust - from Sylvia Plath and the Sex Pistols to Quentin Tarantino and Holocaust comedy - Matthew Boswell considers how they might play an important role in shaping our understanding of the Nazi genocide and what it means to be human.

Defy the Darkness - A Tale of Courage in the Shadow of Mengele (Hardcover, New): Joe Rosenblum, David Kohn Defy the Darkness - A Tale of Courage in the Shadow of Mengele (Hardcover, New)
Joe Rosenblum, David Kohn
R1,443 Discovery Miles 14 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the story of a young man caught in the whirlwind of the Holocaust, who survives a chain of events so harrowing they almost defy belief. As a boy, Joe Rosenblum watches as the Nazi overlords tighten their grip on his small Polish town. Narrowly escaping mass executions that take his own brother, Rosenblum is first sheltered by a local Gentile family, then takes refuge with Russian partisans. Once captured by the Germans, he begins a journey through three concentration camps-Majdanek, Auschwitz, and Dachau. Living by his wits, a courier for the camp underground, Rosenblum is able to help other prisoners, and even to save children selected for the gas chambers. Eventually he finds himself working for the infamous Dr. Mengele. In a bizarre twist of fate, the Angel of Death is persuaded to perform life-saving surgery on Rosenblum-perhaps making him the only Jew to be saved by the deadly doctor's skills. A remarkable man who danced on the razor's edge of history, Rosenblum did not merely survive the Holocaust, but rose above it by radiating hope and humanity-by defying the darkness.

The Peenemunde Wind Tunnels - A Memoir (Hardcover, New): Peter P Wegener The Peenemunde Wind Tunnels - A Memoir (Hardcover, New)
Peter P Wegener
R1,746 Discovery Miles 17 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In 1943, on orders from the German Air Ministry, young physicist Peter P. Wegener left the Russian front and reported to the Baltic village of Peenemunde. His assignment was to work at the supersonic wind tunnels of the rocket laboratories of the German Army. Here Wernher von Braun led a team that developed the V-2, the world's first large rocket-powered guided missile, and laid much of the groundwork for postwar rocket development.;In this book, Wegener recounts his experiences during Hitler's time, World War II, and his years at Peenemunde. He tells how he was working one night in August 1943 when the allies bombed the laboratories, but left the wind tunnels undamaged. The tunnels were moved to Bavaria, and Wegener was ordered to follow in 1944. After the war, the tunnels were moved again - this time to the United States, accompanied by the author and other German scientists. Shortly before the end of the war, Wegener visited Germany's underground V-2 production plant to retrieve archival material on aerodynamics that had been stored in caves for safekeeping.;He described the appalling history of the concentration camps where SS guards watched over inmates who toiled underground in inhuman conditions and often did not survive. A photo essay enhances this memoir.

The Book of Dembitz (D?bica, Poland) - Translation of Sefer Dembitz (Hardcover): D Leibl The Book of Dembitz (Dębica, Poland) - Translation of Sefer Dembitz (Hardcover)
D Leibl; Cover design or artwork by Nili Goldman
R1,399 R1,190 Discovery Miles 11 900 Save R209 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The 51st Brigade - Personal Stories of the Jewish Partisan Group from the Slonim Ghetto (Hardcover): Sarah Shner-Nishmit The 51st Brigade - Personal Stories of the Jewish Partisan Group from the Slonim Ghetto (Hardcover)
Sarah Shner-Nishmit; Translated by Judith Levi
R1,352 R1,153 Discovery Miles 11 530 Save R199 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Tom Lawson, Andy Pearce The Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Tom Lawson, Andy Pearce
R4,272 Discovery Miles 42 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume on the history and memory of the Holocaust in Britain. It traces the complex relationship between Britain and the destruction of Europe's Jews, from societal and political responses to persecution in the 1930s, through formal reactions to war and genocide, to works of representation and remembrance in post-war Britain. Through this process the handbook not only updates existing historiography of Britain and the Holocaust; it also adds new dimensions to our understanding by exploring the constant interface and interplay of history and memory. The chapters bring together internationally renowned academics and talented younger scholars. Collectively, they examine a raft of themes and issues concerning the actions of contemporaries to the Holocaust, and the responses of those who came 'after'. At a time when the Holocaust-related activity in Britain proceeds apace, the contributors to this handbook highlight the importance of rooting what we know and understand about Britain and the Holocaust in historical actuality. This, the volume suggests, is the only way to respond meaningfully to the challenges posed by the Holocaust and ensure that the memory of it has purpose.

Palimpsestic Memory - The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film (Hardcover, New): Max Silverman Palimpsestic Memory - The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film (Hardcover, New)
Max Silverman
R3,016 Discovery Miles 30 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The interconnections between histories and memories of the Holocaust, colonialism and extreme violence in post-war French and Francophone fiction and film provide the central focus of this book. It proposes a new model of 'palimpsestic memory', which the author defines as the condensation of different spatio-temporal traces, to describe these interconnections and defines the poetics and the politics of this composite form. In doing so it is argued that a poetics dependent on tropes and techniques, such as metaphor, allegory and montage, establishes connections across space and time which oblige us to perceive cultural memory not in terms of its singular attachment to a particular event or bound to specific ethno-cultural or national communities but as a dynamic process of transfer between different moments of racialized violence and between different cultural communities. The structure of the book allows for both the theoretical elaboration of this paradigm for cultural memory and individual case-studies of novels and films.

Poland 1939 - The Outbreak of World War II (Paperback): Roger Moorhouse Poland 1939 - The Outbreak of World War II (Paperback)
Roger Moorhouse
R511 R452 Discovery Miles 4 520 Save R59 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Numbered Days - Diaries and the Holocaust (Hardcover): Alexandra Garbarini Numbered Days - Diaries and the Holocaust (Hardcover)
Alexandra Garbarini
R1,939 Discovery Miles 19 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

As the Nazis swept across Europe during World War II, Jewish victims wrote diaries in which they grappled with the terror unfolding around them. Some wrote simply to process the contradictory bits of news they received; some wrote so that their children, already safe in another country, might one day understand what had happened to their parents; and some wrote to furnish unknown readers in the outside world with evidence against the Nazi regime.
Were these diarists resisters, or did the process of writing make the ravages of the Holocaust even more difficult to bear? Drawing on an astonishing array of unpublished and published diaries from all over German-occupied Europe, historian Alexandra Garbarini explores the multiple roles that diary writing played in the lives of these ordinary women and men. A story of hope and hopelessness, "Numbered Days" offers a powerful examination of the complex interplay of writing and mourning. And in these heartbreaking diaries, we see the first glimpses of a question that would haunt the twentieth century: Can such unimaginable horror be represented at all?

Memorial Book of Bolekhov (Bolechow), Ukraine - Translation of Sefer ha-Zikaron le-Kedoshei Bolechow (Hardcover): Y Eshel Memorial Book of Bolekhov (Bolechow), Ukraine - Translation of Sefer ha-Zikaron le-Kedoshei Bolechow (Hardcover)
Y Eshel
R1,191 R1,016 Discovery Miles 10 160 Save R175 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Nazi Conspiracy And Aggression - Volume I (The Red Series) (Hardcover): United States Government Nazi Conspiracy And Aggression - Volume I (The Red Series) (Hardcover)
United States Government
R2,079 Discovery Miles 20 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Memory of Kindness - Growing Up in War Torn Europe (Hardcover): Gertrude Goetz Memory of Kindness - Growing Up in War Torn Europe (Hardcover)
Gertrude Goetz
R776 Discovery Miles 7 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature - The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism (Hardcover): Isabelle Hesse The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature - The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism (Hardcover)
Isabelle Hesse
R4,238 Discovery Miles 42 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Reading a wide range of novels from post-war Germany to Israeli, Palestinian and postcolonial writers, The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature is a comprehensive exploration of changing cultural perceptions of Jewishness in contemporary writing. Examining how representations of Jewishness in contemporary fiction have wrestled with such topics as the Holocaust, Israeli-Palestinian relations and Jewish diaspora experiences, Isabelle Hesse demonstrates the 'colonial' turn taken by these representations since the founding of the Jewish state. Following the dynamics of this turn, the book demonstrates new ways of questioning received ideas about victimhood and power in contemporary discussions of postcolonialism and world literature.

Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature (Hardcover): David Patterson, Alan L. Berger, Sarita Cargas Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature (Hardcover)
David Patterson, Alan L. Berger, Sarita Cargas
R2,541 Discovery Miles 25 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Whether it's a novel, memoir, diary, poem, or drama, a common thread runs through the literature of the Nazi Holocaust--a motif of personal testimony to the dearness of humanity. With that perspective the expert authors of Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature undertake profiling 128 of the most influential first generation authors who either survived, perished, or were closely connected to the Holocaust. Arranged alphabetically by author, all of the entries answer the same basic questions about the author and his or her work: What is the nature of the author's literary response to the Holocaust? What is his or her place in Holocaust literature? What does the author's work contribute to an understanding of the Holocaust? What is distinctive about the author's work? What are some key moments in the author's life? What issues does the author's work pose for the reader? To address these questions, the entries are generally organized into three primary divisions: (1) an opening section on why the author's work has a significant or distinctive place in Holocaust literature, (2) a second section containing information on the author's biography, and (3) a critical examination of the highlights of the author's work. In most cases, the third section is the longest, since the focus of the encyclopedia is the literature, not the author.

The Encyclopedia is intended for all students and teachers of the Holocaust, regardless of their levels of learning. Avenues for further research are incorporated at the conclusion of each entry and in a comprehensive bibliography of primary works of Holocaust literature and a second bibliography of critical studies of Holocaust literature.

Nazi Conspiracy And Aggression - Volume II (The Red Series) (Hardcover): United States Government Nazi Conspiracy And Aggression - Volume II (The Red Series) (Hardcover)
United States Government
R2,024 Discovery Miles 20 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Remembering the Holocaust - Generations, Witnessing and Place (Hardcover): Esther Jilovsky Remembering the Holocaust - Generations, Witnessing and Place (Hardcover)
Esther Jilovsky
R4,580 Discovery Miles 45 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An intriguing analysis of how place constructs memory and how memory constructs place, "Remembering the Holocaust" shows how visiting sites such as Auschwitz shapes the transfer of Holocaust memory from one generation to the next. Through the discussion of a range of memoirs and novels, including "Landscapes of Memory" by Ruth Kluger, "Too Many Men" by Lily Brett, " The War After" by Anne Karpf and "Everything is Illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer, "Remembering the Holocaust "reveals the pivotal yet complicated role of place in each generation's writing about the Holocaust.This book provides an insightful and nuanced investigation of the effect of the Holocaust upon families, from survivors of the genocide to members of the second and even third generations of families involved. By deploying an innovative combination of generational and literary study of Holocaust survivor families focussed on place, "Remembering the Holocaust" makes an important contribution to the field of Holocaust Studies that will be of interest to scholars and anyone interested in Holocaust remembrance.

A Partisan from Vilna (Hardcover, New): Rachel Margolis A Partisan from Vilna (Hardcover, New)
Rachel Margolis; Translated by F. Jackson Piotrow; Introduction by Antony Polonsky
R2,572 R2,354 Discovery Miles 23 540 Save R218 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"A Partisan from Vilna" is the memoir of Rachel Margolis, the sole survivor of her family, who escaped from the Vilna Ghetto with other members of the resistance movement, the FPO (United Partisan Organization), and joined the Soviet partisans in the forests of Lithuania to sabotage the Nazis. Beginning with an account of Rachel's life as a precocious, privileged girl in pre-war Vilna, it goes on to detail life in the Vilna Ghetto, including the development and struggles of the FPO against the Nazis. Finally, the book chronicles the escape of a group of FPO members into the forest of Belorussia, where Rachel became a partisan fighter. Rachel Margolis received a Ph.D. in biology in and taught until the late 1980's. She then co-founded Lithuania's only real Holocaust museum, the Green House in Vilnius. She is also responsible for the discovery and transcription of the Kazimierz Sakowicz diary, published here in the US under the title, "Ponary Diary: A Bystander's Account of Mass Murder" (Yale University Press, 2004). The book opens with an introductory essay by renowned Polish historian, Antony Polonsky.

Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction - Works and Contexts (Hardcover): Elisa-Maria Hiemer, Jiri Holy, Agata... Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction - Works and Contexts (Hardcover)
Elisa-Maria Hiemer, Jiri Holy, Agata Firlej, Hana Nichtburgerova
R4,412 Discovery Miles 44 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction aims to increase the visibility and show the versatility of works from East-Central European countries. It is the first encyclopedic work to bridge the gap between the literary production of countries that are considered to be main sites of the Holocaust and their recognition in international academic and public discourse. It contains over 100 entries offering not only facts about the content and motifs but also pointing out the characteristic fictional features of each work and its meaning for academic discourse and wider reception in the country of origin and abroad. The publication will appeal to the academic and broader public interested in the representation of the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, and World War II in literature and the arts. Besides prose, it also considers poetry and theatrical plays from 1943 through 2018. An introduction to the historical events and cultural developments in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Czech, and Slovak Republic, and their impact on the artistic output helps to contextualise the motif changes and fictional strategies that authors have been applying for decades. The publication is the result of long-term scholarly cooperation of specialists from four countries and several dozen academic centres.

Forging Shoah Memories - Italian Women Writers, Jewish Identity, and the Holocaust (Hardcover): S. Lucamente, Stefania Lucamante Forging Shoah Memories - Italian Women Writers, Jewish Identity, and the Holocaust (Hardcover)
S. Lucamente, Stefania Lucamante
R1,999 Discovery Miles 19 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Despite an outpouring in recent years of history and cultural criticism related to the Holocaust, Italian women's literary representations and testimonies have not received their proper due. This project fills this gap by analyzing Italian women's writing from a variety of genres, all set against a complex historical backdrop.

Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews, 1938-48 - Beyond Idealisation and Condemnation (Hardcover): J. Lanicek, Jan Lani?Ek Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews, 1938-48 - Beyond Idealisation and Condemnation (Hardcover)
J. Lanicek, Jan Lani?Ek
R1,976 Discovery Miles 19 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Covering the period between the Munich Agreement and the Communist Coup in February 1948, this volume provides the first full account of the Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile in London. In examining attitudes towards the Jews during World War 2 and its aftermath Jan Lani ek explores the notion that Czechoslovak treatment of the Jews was shaped by resurgent Czech and Slovak nationalism/s caused by the war and by the experience of the occupation by the German army. He challenges the official history of Czechoslovak policy towards the Jews between 1918 and 1948, which still presents Czechoslovakia as an exceptional case study of an East-Central European state that rejected antisemitism and treated the Jews decently. This groundbreaking work offers a novel, provocative analysis of the political activities and plans of the Czechoslovak exiles during and after the war years, and of the implementation of the plans in liberated Czechoslovakia after 1945.

Return To The Reich - A Holocaust Refugee's Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis (Paperback): Eric Lichtblau Return To The Reich - A Holocaust Refugee's Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis (Paperback)
Eric Lichtblau
R423 R396 Discovery Miles 3 960 Save R27 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis' rise to power. When he was sixteen, his family made the decision to flee to the United States - they were among the last German Jews to escape, in 1938. In America, Freddy tried enlisting the day after Pearl Harbor, only to be rejected as an "enemy alien" because he was German. He was soon recruited to the OSS, the country's first spy outfit before the CIA. Freddy, joined by Dutch Jewish refugee Hans Wynberg and Nazi defector Franz Weber, parachuted into Austria as the leader of Operation Greenup, meant to deter Hitler's last stand. He posed as a Nazi officer and a French POW for months, dispatching reports to the OSS via Hans, holed up with a radio in a nearby attic. The reports contained a gold mine of information, provided key intelligence about the Battle of the Bulge, and allowed the Allies to bomb twenty Nazi trains. On the verge of the Allied victory, Freddy was captured by the Gestapo and tortured and waterboarded for days. Remarkably, he persuaded the region's Nazi commander to surrender, completing one of the most successful OSS missions of the war. Based on years of research and interviews with Mayer himself, whom the author was able to meet only months before his death at the age of ninety-four, Return to the Reich is an eye-opening, unforgettable narrative of World War II heroism.

Memory Work - The Second Generation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Nina Fischer Memory Work - The Second Generation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Nina Fischer
R2,501 R1,968 Discovery Miles 19 680 Save R533 (21%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Memory Work studies how Jewish children of Holocaust survivors from the English-speaking diaspora explore the past in literary texts. By identifying areas where memory manifests - Objects, Names, Bodies, Food, Passover, 9/11 it shows how the Second Generation engage with the pre-Holocaust family and their parents' survival.

Julius Streicher - Nazi Editor of the Notorious Anti-semitic Newspaper Der Sturmer (Paperback, 1st Cooper Square Press ed):... Julius Streicher - Nazi Editor of the Notorious Anti-semitic Newspaper Der Sturmer (Paperback, 1st Cooper Square Press ed)
Randall Bytwerk
R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Nazis put a remarkable amount of effort into anti-Semitic propaganda, intending to bring ordinary Germans around to the destructive ideology of the Nazi party. Julius Streicher (1885-1946) spearheaded many of these efforts, publishing anti-Semitic articles and cartoons in his weekly newspaper, Der Sturmer, the most widely read paper in the Third Reich. Streicher won the close personal friendship of Hitler and Himmler, and drew deserved attacks from the world press. Bytwerk's biography examines Streicher's use of propaganda techniques, and the hate literature towards Jews that continued to appear after his death, bearing his influence.

Mordechai Gebirtig - His Poetic and Musical Legacy (Hardcover, New): Gertrude Schneider Mordechai Gebirtig - His Poetic and Musical Legacy (Hardcover, New)
Gertrude Schneider
R3,872 Discovery Miles 38 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Mordechai Gebirtig was one of the most influential and popular writers of Yiddish songs and poems. Born in 1877, he became a prolific poet and song writer, using everything he saw, heard and knew about people. His legacy, therefore, is not only one of melodies and lyrics, but also a treatise on Jewish life in Poland under the benign neglect of the Austrians, the ever growing hostility of the Poles, and finally, the terror of the Germans, who destroyed the people, their culture, and, to a great measure, their memory. Schneider's book for the first time brings his work to an English-speaking audience, offering a collection of all of his major works, complete with the scores, transliterated Yiddish text, and English translation. Her book offers a rare insight into the world of Eastern European Jews, their culture, and their music.

Gebirtig's most famous song Es Brent--It's Burning--was written in response to a 1936 pogrom. It became a stirring hymn for the survivors of the Holocaust, who felt that the words suited their own situation very well. Gebirtig himself was shot in the Cracow Ghetto in June 1942. Neither he nor any of his close family survived the war. However, as this volume shows, his songs and poems remain an enduring voice for a Jewish community nearly lost to the Nazis. They constitute a precious legacy for anyone interested in the world of Eastern Europe Jews, their culture, and their music.

The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture (Hardcover): R. Crownshaw The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture (Hardcover)
R. Crownshaw
R1,534 Discovery Miles 15 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This bold intervention into the debate over the memory and post-memory of the Holocaust both scrutinises recent academic theories of post-Holocaust trauma and provides a new reading of literary and architectural memory texts related to the Holocaust.

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