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Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust

Dubossary Memorial Yizkor Book (Dubasari, Moldova) - Translation of Dubossary; Sefer Zikaron (Hardcover): Y Rubin Dubossary Memorial Yizkor Book (Dubasari, Moldova) - Translation of Dubossary; Sefer Zikaron (Hardcover)
Y Rubin; Edited by Sarah Faerman; Contributions by Sheldon Lipsky
R1,054 Discovery Miles 10 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Wysokie-Mazowieckie - Memorial Book (Hardcover): I Rubin Wysokie-Mazowieckie - Memorial Book (Hardcover)
I Rubin; Cover design or artwork by Rachel Kolokoff Hopper; Index compiled by Jonathan Wind
R895 Discovery Miles 8 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction (Hardcover): Erin McGlothlin The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction (Hardcover)
Erin McGlothlin
R2,605 Discovery Miles 26 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction examines texts that portray the inner experience of Holocaust perpetrators and thus transform them from archetypes of evil into complex psychological and moral subjects. Employing relevant methodological tools of narrative theory, Erin McGlothlin analyzes these unsettling depictions, which manifest a certain tension regarding the ethics of representation and identification. Such works, she asserts, endeavor to make transparent the mindset of their violent subjects, yet at the same time they also invariably contrive to obfuscate in part its disquieting character. The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction contains two parts. The first focuses on portraits of real-life perpetrators in nonfictional interviews and analyses from the 1960s and 1970s. These works provide a nuanced perspective on the mentality of the people who implemented the Holocaust via the interventional role of the interviewer or interpreter in the perpetrators' performances of self-disclosure. In part two, McGlothlin investigates more recent fictional texts that imagine the perspective of their invented perpetrator-narrators. Such works draw readers directly into the perpetrator's experience and at the same time impede their access to the perpetrator's consciousness by retarding their affective connection. Demonstrating that recent fiction featuring perpetrators as narrators employs strategies derived from earlier nonfictional portrayals, McGlothlin establishes not only a historical connection between these two groups of texts, whereby nonfictional engagement with real-life perpetrators gradually gives way to fictional exploration, but also a structural and aesthetic one. The book bespeaks new modes of engagement with ethically fraught questions raised by our increasing willingness to consider the events of the Holocaust from the perspective of the perpetrator. Students, scholars, and readers of Holocaust studies and literary criticism will appreciate this closer look at a historically taboo topic.

Contemporary Debates in Holocaust Education (Hardcover, New): M. Gray Contemporary Debates in Holocaust Education (Hardcover, New)
M. Gray
R1,719 Discovery Miles 17 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Holocaust education is a controversial and rapidly evolving field. This book, which critically analyses the very latest research, discusses a number of the most important debates which are emerging within it. Adopting a truly global perspective, it explores both teachers' and students' levels of Holocaust knowledge as well as their attitudes and approaches towards the subject.

Holocaust Literature of the Second Generation (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): M. Vaul-Grimwood Holocaust Literature of the Second Generation (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
M. Vaul-Grimwood
R1,452 Discovery Miles 14 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Exploring five key texts from the emerging canon of second generation writing, this exciting new study" "brings together theories of autobiography, trauma, and fantasy to understand the how traumatic family histories are represented. In doing so, it demonstrates the continuing impact of familial and community Holocaust trauma, and the need for a precise, clearly developed theoretical framework in which to situate these works. This book will appeal to final year undergraduates and postgraduate students, as well as scholars in literary and Holocaust-related fields, and an audience with personal and professional interests in the 'second generation'.

The Politics of Trauma and Memory Activism - Polish-Jewish Relations Today (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Janine Holc The Politics of Trauma and Memory Activism - Polish-Jewish Relations Today (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Janine Holc
R1,709 Discovery Miles 17 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book analyses four case studies of Holocaust memory activism in Poland, contextualized within recent debates about Polish-Jewish relations and approached through a theoretical framework informed by critical theory. Three cases are advocacy groups, each located in a different region of Poland-Lublin, Krakow, and Sejny-and each group is presented with attention to the local context and specific dynamics of its vision and strategy. The fourth case study is the state, which has emerged as a powerful memory actor. Using research based on extensive fieldwork, including interviews and direct observation, the author argues that memory activism must grapple with emotional attachments to identity if it is to move beyond a reconciliation paradigm. Drawing on works from semiotics and critical trauma studies, the volume analyzes the assumptions each memory actor makes about three dimensions of Holocaust memory: 1) the relationship of the individual to Polish national identity; 2) the possibility of a reconciled Polish-Jewish history; and 3) the assignment of traumatic suffering to a particular group or event.

An Archive of the Catastrophe - The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah (Hardcover): Jennifer Cazenave An Archive of the Catastrophe - The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah (Hardcover)
Jennifer Cazenave
R2,112 Discovery Miles 21 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A World Without Jews - The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide (Paperback): Alon Confino A World Without Jews - The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide (Paperback)
Alon Confino
R732 Discovery Miles 7 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A groundbreaking reexamination of the Holocaust and of how Germans understood their genocidal project Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by historians in their large-scale assessments of how and why the Holocaust occurred. In this gripping new analysis, Alon Confino draws on an array of archives across three continents to propose a penetrating new assessment of one of the central moral problems of the twentieth century. To a surprising extent, Confino demonstrates, the mass murder of Jews during the war years was powerfully anticipated in the culture of the prewar years. The author shifts his focus away from the debates over what the Germans did or did not know about the Holocaust and explores instead how Germans came to conceive of the idea of a Germany without Jews. He traces the stories the Nazis told themselves-where they came from and where they were heading-and how those stories led to the conclusion that Jews must be eradicated in order for the new Nazi civilization to arise. The creation of this new empire required that Jews and Judaism be erased from Christian history, and this was the inspiration-and justification-for Kristallnacht. As Germans imagined a future world without Jews, persecution and extermination became imaginable, and even justifiable.

Land of Many Bridges - My Father's Story (Hardcover): Bela Ruth Samuel Tenenholtz Land of Many Bridges - My Father's Story (Hardcover)
Bela Ruth Samuel Tenenholtz
R707 Discovery Miles 7 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Filming the End of the Holocaust - Allied Documentaries, Nuremberg and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps (Hardcover):... Filming the End of the Holocaust - Allied Documentaries, Nuremberg and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps (Hardcover)
John J. Michalczyk
R4,262 Discovery Miles 42 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Filming the End of the Holocaust considers how the US Government commissioned the US Signal Corps and other filmmakers to document the horrors of the concentration camps during the April-May 1945 liberation. The evidence of the Nazis' genocidal actions amassed in these films, some of them made by Hollywood luminaries such as John Ford and Billy Wilder, would go on to have a major impact at the Nuremberg Trials; they helped to indict Nazi officials as the judges witnessed scenes of torture, human experimentation and extermination of Jews and non-Jews in the gas chambers and crematoria. These films, some produced by the Soviets, were integral to the war crime trials that followed the Holocaust and the Second World War, and this book provides a thorough, close analysis of the footage in these films and their historical significance. Using research carried out at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the US National Archives and the film collection at the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University, this book explores the rationale for filming the atrocities and their use in the subsequent trials of Nazi officials in greater detail than anything previously published. Including an extensive bibliography and filmography, Filming the End of the Holocaust is an important text for scholars and students of the Holocaust and its aftermath.

Matters of Testimony - Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz (Hardcover): Nicholas Chare, Dominic Williams Matters of Testimony - Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz (Hardcover)
Nicholas Chare, Dominic Williams
R2,676 Discovery Miles 26 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1944, members of the Sonderkommando-the "special squads," composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process-buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts of Nazi genocide. This careful and penetrating study examines anew these "Scrolls of Auschwitz," which were gradually recovered, in damaged and fragmentary form, in the years following the camp's liberation. It painstakingly reconstructs their historical context and textual content, revealing complex literary works that resist narrow moral judgment and engage difficult questions about the limits of testimony.

The Tattooist Of Auschwitz (Paperback, Young Adult Edition): Heather Morris The Tattooist Of Auschwitz (Paperback, Young Adult Edition)
Heather Morris 1
R299 R234 Discovery Miles 2 340 Save R65 (22%) Ships in 5 - 17 working days

For readers of Schindler's List, The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas comes a heart-breaking story of the very best of humanity in the very worst of circumstances.

In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival - scratching numbers into his fellow victims' arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust. Waiting in line to be tattooed, terrified and shaking, was a young girl. For Lale - a dandy, a jack-the-lad, a bit of a chancer - it was love at first sight. And he was determined not only to survive himself, but to ensure this woman, Gita, did, too.

So begins one of the most life-affirming, courageous, unforgettable and human stories of the Holocaust: the true love story of the tattooist of Auschwitz.

The Germans and the Holocaust - Popular Responses to the Persecution and Murder of the Jews (Hardcover): Susanna Schrafstetter,... The Germans and the Holocaust - Popular Responses to the Persecution and Murder of the Jews (Hardcover)
Susanna Schrafstetter, Alan E. Steinweis
R2,665 Discovery Miles 26 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For decades, historians have debated how and to what extent the Holocaust penetrated the German national consciousness between 1933 and 1945. How much did "ordinary" Germans know about the subjugation and mass murder of the Jews, when did they know it, and how did they respond collectively and as individuals? This compact volume brings together six historical investigations into the subject from leading scholars employing newly accessible and previously underexploited evidence. Ranging from the roots of popular anti-Semitism to the complex motivations of Germans who hid Jews, these studies illuminate some of the most difficult questions in Holocaust historiography, supplemented with an array of fascinating primary source materials.

Topographies of Suffering - Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice (Hardcover): Jessica Rapson Topographies of Suffering - Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice (Hardcover)
Jessica Rapson
R2,680 Discovery Miles 26 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Commentary on memorials to the Holocaust has been plagued with a sense of "monument fatigue", a feeling that landscape settings and national spaces provide little opportunity for meaningful engagement between present visitors and past victims. This book examines the Holocaust via three sites of murder by the Nazis: the former concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany; the mass grave at Babi Yar, Ukraine; and the razed village of Lidice, Czech Republic. Bringing together recent scholarship from cultural memory and cultural geography, the author focuses on the way these violent histories are remembered, allowing these sites to emerge as dynamic transcultural landscapes of encounter in which difficult pasts can be represented and comprehended in the present. This leads to an examination of the role of the environment, or, more particularly, the ways in which the natural environment, co-opted in the process of killing, becomes a medium for remembrance.

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
R364 R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Save R26 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 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.

A Train Near Magdeburg - A Teacher's Journey into the Holocaust, and the reuniting of the survivors and liberators, 70... A Train Near Magdeburg - A Teacher's Journey into the Holocaust, and the reuniting of the survivors and liberators, 70 years on (Hardcover)
Matthew Rozell
R1,010 Discovery Miles 10 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Book of Klobucko; In Memory of a Martyred Community - Translation of Sefer Klobutsk; Mazkeret Kavod le-Kkehila ha-Kkedosha... The Book of Klobucko; In Memory of a Martyred Community - Translation of Sefer Klobutsk; Mazkeret Kavod le-Kkehila ha-Kkedosha she-Ushmeda (Hardcover)
A Wolff Jasny; Edited by Allan D Mantel
R1,110 Discovery Miles 11 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Judging 'Privileged' Jews - Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone' (Paperback): Adam Brown Judging 'Privileged' Jews - Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone' (Paperback)
Adam Brown
R617 R484 Discovery Miles 4 840 Save R133 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Nazis' persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their persecutors. Many in the camps and ghettos came to hold so-called "privileged" positions, and their behavior has often been judged as self-serving and harmful to fellow inmates. Such controversial figures constitute an intrinsically important, frequently misunderstood, and often taboo aspect of the Holocaust. Drawing on Primo Levi's concept of the "grey zone," this study analyzes the passing of moral judgment on "privileged" Jews as represented by writers, such as Raul Hilberg, and in films, including Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. Negotiating the problems and potentialities of "representing the unrepresentable," this book engages with issues that are fundamental to present-day attempts to understand the Holocaust and deeply relevant to reflections on human nature.

The Nazi Genocide of the Roma - Reassessment and Commemoration (Paperback): Anton Weiss-Wendt The Nazi Genocide of the Roma - Reassessment and Commemoration (Paperback)
Anton Weiss-Wendt
R817 Discovery Miles 8 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Using the framework of genocide, this volume analyzes the patterns of persecution of the Roma in Nazi-dominated Europe. Detailed case studies of France, Austria, Romania, Croatia, Ukraine, and Russia generate a critical mass of evidence that indicates criminal intent on the part of the Nazi regime to destroy the Roma as a distinct group. Other chapters examine the failure of the West German State to deliver justice, the Romani collective memory of the genocide, and the current political and historical debates. As this revealing volume shows, however inconsistent or geographically limited, over time, the mass murder acquired a systematic character and came to include ever larger segments of the Romani population regardless of the social status of individual members of the community.

Catastrophes - A History and Theory of an Operative Concept (Hardcover): Nitzan Lebovic, Andreas Killen Catastrophes - A History and Theory of an Operative Concept (Hardcover)
Nitzan Lebovic, Andreas Killen
R3,407 Discovery Miles 34 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Catastrophic scenarios dominate our contemporary mindset. Catastrophic events and predictions have spurred new interest in re-examining the history of earlier disasters and the social and conceptual resources they have mobilized. The essays gathered in this volume reconsider the history and theory of different catastrophes and their aftermath. The emphasis is on the need to distance this process of reconsideration from previous teleological representations of catastrophes as an endpoint, and to begin considering their "operative" aspects, which unmask the nature of social and political structures. Among the essays in this volume are analyses, by leading scholars in their respective fields, concerning the role of catastrophes in theology, in the history of industrial accidents, in theory of history, in the history of law, in "catastrophe films", in the history of cybernetics, in post-Holocaust discussions of reparations, and in climate change.

Staging Holocaust Resistance (Hardcover): Gene A. Plunka Staging Holocaust Resistance (Hardcover)
Gene A. Plunka
R1,296 R1,034 Discovery Miles 10 340 Save R262 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Gene A. Plunka argues that drama is the ideal art form to revitalize the collective memory of Holocaust resistance. Drama of and about the Holocaust can be staged worldwide, thereby introducing the Shoah to diverse audiences. Moreover, theatre affects audiences emotionally, subliminally, or intellectually (sometimes simultaneously) in a direct way that many other art forms cannot match. This comparative drama study examines a variety of international plays - some quite well-known, others more obscure - that focus on collective or individual defiance of the Nazis.

The Holocaust, Fascism and Memory - Essays in the History of Ideas (Hardcover): D. Stone The Holocaust, Fascism and Memory - Essays in the History of Ideas (Hardcover)
D. Stone
R2,303 R1,831 Discovery Miles 18 310 Save R472 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From interpretations of the Holocaust to fascist thought and anti-fascists' responses, and the problems of memorializing this difficult past, this essay collection tackles topics which are rarely studied in conjunction. As well as historical analyses of fascist and anti-fascist thinking, Stone analyses the challenges involved in writing history in general and Holocaust historiography in particular. Following an introductory essay on 'history and its discontents', the wide-ranging chapters deal with individual thinkers of very different sorts, such as Hannah Arendt, Rolf Gardiner, Jules Monnerot and Saul Friedlander, movements such as interwar rural revivalism, the contested translation of Mein Kampf, emigre anti-fascists' writings, and the relationship between memory and history, especially with respect to atrocities like genocide. This unique collection of essays on a wide variety of topics contributes to understanding the roots and consequences of mid-twentieth-century Europe's great catastrophe.

Comic Books, Graphic Novels and the Holocaust - Beyond Maus (Hardcover): Ewa Stanczyk Comic Books, Graphic Novels and the Holocaust - Beyond Maus (Hardcover)
Ewa Stanczyk
R3,874 Discovery Miles 38 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book analyses the portrayals of the Holocaust in newspaper cartoons, educational pamphlets, short stories and graphic novels. Focusing on recognised and lesser-known illustrators from Europe and beyond, the volume looks at autobiographical and fictional accounts and seeks to paint a broader picture of Holocaust comic strips from the 1940s to the present. The book shows that the genre is a capacious one, not only dealing with the killing of millions of Jews but also with Jewish lives in war-torn Europe, the personal and transgenerational memory of the Second World War and the wider national and transnational legacies of the Shoah. The chapters in this collection point to the aesthetic diversity of the genre which uses figurative and allegorical representation, as well as applying different stylistics, from realism to fantasy. Finally, the contributions to this volume show new developments in comic books and graphic novels on the Holocaust, including the rise of alternative publications, aimed at the adult reader, and the emergence of state-funded educational comics written with young readers in mind. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies.

Rokitno-Wolyn and Surroundings - Memorial Book and Testimony Translation of Rokitno (Volin) ve-ha-seviva; Sefer Edut ve-Zikaron... Rokitno-Wolyn and Surroundings - Memorial Book and Testimony Translation of Rokitno (Volin) ve-ha-seviva; Sefer Edut ve-Zikaron (Hardcover)
Eliezer Leoni
R1,464 Discovery Miles 14 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Ethics During and After the Holocaust - In the Shadow of Birkenau (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): J. Roth Ethics During and After the Holocaust - In the Shadow of Birkenau (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
J. Roth
R1,469 Discovery Miles 14 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Questions shape the Holocaust's legacy. 'What happened to ethics during the Holocaust? What should ethics be, and what can it do after the Holocaust?' loom large among them. Absent the overriding or moral sensibilities, if not the collapse or collaboration of ethical traditions, the Holocaust could not have happened. Its devastation may have deepened conviction that there is a crucial difference between right and wrong; its destruction may have renewed awareness about the importance of ethical standards and conduct. But Birkenau, the main killing center at Auschwitz, also continues to cast a disturbing shadow over basic beliefs concerning right and wrong, human rights, and the hope that human beings will learn from the past. This book explores those realities and the issues they contain. It does so not to discourage but to encourage, not to deepen darkness and despair but to face those realities honestly and in a way that can make post-Holocaust ethics more credible and realistic. The book's thesis is that nothing human, natural or divine guarantees respect for the ethical values and commitments that are most needed in contemporary human existence, but nothing is more important than our commitment to defend them, for they remain as fundamental as they are fragile, as precious as they are endangered.

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