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The Holocaust is often invoked as a benchmark for talking about
human rights abuses from slavery and apartheid to colonialism,
ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Western educators and politicians
draw seemingly obvious lessons of tolerance and anti-racism from
the Nazi past, and their work rests on the implicit assumption that
Holocaust education and commemoration will expose the dangers of
prejudice and promote peaceful coexistence. Holocaust Memory and
Racism in the Postwar World, edited by Shirli Gilbert and Avril
Alba, challenges the notion that there is an unproblematic
connection between Holocaust memory and the discourse of
anti-racism. Through diverse case studies, this volume historicizes
how the Holocaust has shaped engagement with racism from the 1940s
until the present, demonstrating that contemporary assumptions are
neither obvious nor inevitable. Holocaust Memory and Racism in the
Postwar World is divided into four sections. The first section
focuses on encounters between Nazism and racism during and
immediately after World War II, demonstrating not only that racist
discourses and politics persisted in the postwar period, but also,
perhaps more importantly, that few people identified links with
Nazi racism. The second section explores Jewish motivations for
participating in anti-racist activism, and the varying memories of
the Holocaust that informed their work. The third section
historicizes the manifold ways in which the Holocaust has been
conceptualized in literary settings, exploring efforts to connect
the Holocaust and racism in geographically, culturally, and
temporally diverse settings. The final section brings the volume
into the present, focusing on contemporary political causes for
which the Holocaust provides a benchmark for racial equality and
justice. Together, the contributions delineate the complex history
of Holocaust memory, recognize its contingency, and provide a
foundation from which to evaluate its moral legitimacy and
political and social effectiveness. Holocaust Memory and Racism in
the Postwar World is intended for students and scholars of
Holocaust and genocide studies, professionals working in museums
and heritage organizations, and anyone interested in building on
their knowledge of the Holocaust and the discourse of racism.
The Holocaust is often invoked as a benchmark for talking about
human rights abuses from slavery and apartheid to colonialism,
ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Western educators and politicians
draw seemingly obvious lessons of tolerance and anti-racism from
the Nazi past, and their work rests on the implicit assumption that
Holocaust education and commemoration will expose the dangers of
prejudice and promote peaceful coexistence. Holocaust Memory and
Racism in the Postwar World, edited by Shirli Gilbert and Avril
Alba, challenges the notion that there is an unproblematic
connection between Holocaust memory and the discourse of
anti-racism. Through diverse case studies, this volume historicizes
how the Holocaust has shaped engagement with racism from the 1940s
until the present, demonstrating that contemporary assumptions are
neither obvious nor inevitable. Holocaust Memory and Racism in the
Postwar World is divided into four sections. The first section
focuses on encounters between Nazism and racism during and
immediately after World War II, demonstrating not only that racist
discourses and politics persisted in the postwar period, but also,
perhaps more importantly, that few people identified links with
Nazi racism. The second section explores Jewish motivations for
participating in anti-racist activism, and the varying memories of
the Holocaust that informed their work. The third section
historicizes the manifold ways in which the Holocaust has been
conceptualized in literary settings, exploring efforts to connect
the Holocaust and racism in geographically, culturally, and
temporally diverse settings. The final section brings the volume
into the present, focusing on contemporary political causes for
which the Holocaust provides a benchmark for racial equality and
justice. Together, the contributions delineate the complex history
of Holocaust memory, recognize its contingency, and provide a
foundation from which to evaluate its moral legitimacy and
political and social effectiveness. Holocaust Memory and Racism in
the Postwar World is intended for students and scholars of
Holocaust and genocide studies, professionals working in museums
and heritage organizations, and anyone interested in building on
their knowledge of the Holocaust and the discourse of racism.
In the Shadow of Hitler chronicles the experiences of Alabama Jews
as they worked to overcome their own divisions in order to aid
European Jews before, during, and after the Second World War. In
this extensive study of how southern Jews in the United States
responded to the Nazi persecution of European Jews, Dan J. Puckett
recounts the divisions between Alabama Jews in the early 1930s. As
awareness of the horrors of the Holocaust spread, Jews across
Alabama from different backgrounds and from Reform, Conservative,
and Orthodox traditions worked to bridge their internal divisions
in order to mount efforts to save Jewish lives in Europe. Only by
leveraging their collective strength were Alabama's Jews able to
sway the opinions of newspaper editors, Christian groups, and the
general public as well as lobby local, state, and national
political leaders. Puckett's comprehensive analysis is enlivened
and illustrated by true stories that will fascinate all readers of
southern history. One such story concerns the Altneuschule Torah of
Prague and describes how the Nazis, during their brutal occupation
of Czechoslovakia, confiscated 1,564 Torahs and sacred Judaic
objects from communities throughout Bohemia and Moravia as exhibits
in a planned museum to the extinct Jewish race. Recovered after the
war by the Czech Memorial Scrolls Trust, the Altneuschule Torah was
acquired in 1982 by the Orthodox congregation Ahavas Chesed of
Mobile. Ahavas Chesed re-consecrated the scroll as an Alabama
memorial to Czech Jews who perished in Nazi death camps. In the
Shadow of Hitler illustrates how Alabama's Jews, in seeking to
influence the national and international well-being of Jews, were
changed, emerging from the war period with close cultural and
religious cooperation that continues today.
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