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Adam Czerniakow was a Polish Jew who killed himself on July 23,
1942 on the face of it not an uncommon occurrence in those times.
But there is more to the story than the tragic death of one man
among so many millions. Czerniakow was for almost three years the
chairman of the Warsaw Judenrat a Jew, devoted to his people, who
served as the Nazi-sponsored mayor of the Warsaw Ghetto. His
personal dealings with the German authorities bring to this daily
record of events a depth of knowledge, accuracy of detail, and
panorama of view that was possible to no other participant in the
epic prelude to the final doom of the largest captive Jewish
community in Eastern Europe. This secret journal is not only the
testimony of an unbearable personal burden but the documentary of
the Ghetto s terminal agony. It is the most important diary to
emerge from the Holocaust. A tale of Kafaesque horror. Houston
Chronicle. An astonishing record of desperate adaptation and
resilient will. The New Leader. Without parallel. Isaiah Trunk,
author of Judenrat. Enormously evocative. Dorothy Rabinowitz, Wall
Street Journal. A nightmare Alice-in-Wonderland...intensely
dramatic in the aggregate for all the matter-of-factness of
individual entries...The Diary of Adam Czerniakow makes a deep,
deep impression. Peter Osnos, Washington Post.
This is the poignant memoir of a man who has spent most of his
lifetime immersed in the evidence of one of the great horrors in
human history. It is both a record of how it affected him and a
revelation of the surprising ways in which his monumental work was
received by his contemporaries. Even after thirty-five years, Raul
Hilberg 's The Destruction of the European Jews remains the most
distinguished and comprehensive analysis of the Nazi destruction
process. Yet at the time it was written, as Mr. Hilberg recounts in
The Politics of Memory, both the manuscript and its subject matter
were rejected by major publishers and university presses; and in
the wake of publication the author faced a hostile reception from
those who refused to believe that the Jews were less than heroic in
their journey to the gas chambers. How his study was used and
abused especially by Hannah Arendt, Lucy Dawidowicz, and Nora Levin
draws Mr. Hilberg 's attention, as does the more admiring reception
for Destruction in Europe than in America. The Politics of Memory
brings full circle a scholarly enterprise that in many ways has
been a terrible calling.
A multifaceted look at historian Raul Hilberg, tracing the
evolution of Holocaust research from a marginal subdiscipline into
a vital intellectual project. "I would recommend this book to both
Holocaust historians and general readers alike. The breadth and
depth of Hilberg's research and his particular insights have not
yet been surpassed by any other Holocaust scholar."-Jewish
Libraries News & Reviews Though best known as the author of the
landmark 1961 work The Destruction of the European Jews, the
historian Raul Hilberg produced a variety of archival research,
personal essays, and other works over a career that spanned half a
century. The Anatomy of the Holocaust collects some of Hilberg's
most essential and groundbreaking writings many of them published
in obscure journals or otherwise inaccessible to nonspecialists in
a single volume. Supplemented with commentary and notes from
Hilberg's longtime German editor and his biographer. From the
Introduction: This selection by the editors from the multitude of
his published texts focuses on Hilberg's intellectual interests as
a Holocaust researcher. Among other topics, they deal with the
bureaucracy of the Holocaust, the number of victims, the role of
the Judenrate(Jewish councils), and the function of the railway and
the police in the extermination process. The scholarly impulses
extending from Hilberg's work remain remarkable and virulent almost
a decade after his death.2 They deserve to be readily accessible in
one place to historians and the interested public in the new
compilation offered here. Many of the debates influenced by Hilberg
are not yet resolved. The texts presented can be quite revealing in
light of these controversies.
A multifaceted look at historian Raul Hilberg, tracing the
evolution of Holocaust research from a marginal subdiscipline into
a vital intellectual project. "I would recommend this book to both
Holocaust historians and general readers alike. The breadth and
depth of Hilberg's research and his particular insights have not
yet been surpassed by any other Holocaust scholar."-Jewish
Libraries News & Reviews Though best known as the author of the
landmark 1961 work The Destruction of the European Jews, the
historian Raul Hilberg produced a variety of archival research,
personal essays, and other works over a career that spanned half a
century. The Anatomy of the Holocaust collects some of Hilberg's
most essential and groundbreaking writings many of them published
in obscure journals or otherwise inaccessible to nonspecialists in
a single volume. Supplemented with commentary and notes from
Hilberg's longtime German editor and his biographer. From the
Introduction: This selection by the editors from the multitude of
his published texts focuses on Hilberg's intellectual interests as
a Holocaust researcher. Among other topics, they deal with the
bureaucracy of the Holocaust, the number of victims, the role of
the Judenrate(Jewish councils), and the function of the railway and
the police in the extermination process. The scholarly impulses
extending from Hilberg's work remain remarkable and virulent almost
a decade after his death.2 They deserve to be readily accessible in
one place to historians and the interested public in the new
compilation offered here. Many of the debates influenced by Hilberg
are not yet resolved. The texts presented can be quite revealing in
light of these controversies.
A rich and accessible introduction to the role of the German
railway system in the Holocaust, a topic that remains understudied
even today. Renowned Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg considered the
German railway system that delivered European Jews to ghettos and
death camps in Eastern Europe to be not only an essential component
of the "machinery of destruction" but also emblematic of the amoral
bureaucracy that helped to implement the Jewish genocide. German
Railroads, Jewish Souls centers around Hilberg's seminal essay of
the same name, a landmark study of German railways in the Nazi era
long unavailable in English. Supplemented with additional writings
from Hilberg, primary source materials, and historical commentary
from leading scholars Christopher Browning and Peter Hayes. "This
important book unites three prominent scholars tackling crucial
questions about German railways and the Holocaust. Two essays from
the late, renowned Raul Hilberg investigate their overlooked role
in the extermination of the European Jews. They provide
groundbreaking investigations into the German railway as the
prototype of a bureaucracy and challenge its supposed banality.
While Christopher Browning eloquently situates Hilberg's essays
within the historical literature, Peter Hayes makes a detailed
critique of the common but false belief that the deportation and
annihilation of the Jews were more of a priority for the Nazis than
the war effort. This question, arising from Hilberg's essays,
demonstrates the continued significance of his work today."-Wolf
Gruner, author, The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia: Czech
Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses Published in
Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
A rich and accessible introduction to the role of the German
railway system in the Holocaust, a topic that remains understudied
even today. Renowned Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg considered the
German railway system that delivered European Jews to ghettos and
death camps in Eastern Europe to be not only an essential component
of the "machinery of destruction" but also emblematic of the amoral
bureaucracy that helped to implement the Jewish genocide. German
Railroads, Jewish Souls centers around Hilberg's seminal essay of
the same name, a landmark study of German railways in the Nazi era
long unavailable in English. Supplemented with additional writings
from Hilberg, primary source materials, and historical commentary
from leading scholars Christopher Browning and Peter Hayes. "This
important book unites three prominent scholars tackling crucial
questions about German railways and the Holocaust. Two essays from
the late, renowned Raul Hilberg investigate their overlooked role
in the extermination of the European Jews. They provide
groundbreaking investigations into the German railway as the
prototype of a bureaucracy and challenge its supposed banality.
While Christopher Browning eloquently situates Hilberg's essays
within the historical literature, Peter Hayes makes a detailed
critique of the common but false belief that the deportation and
annihilation of the Jews were more of a priority for the Nazis than
the war effort. This question, arising from Hilberg's essays,
demonstrates the continued significance of his work today."-Wolf
Gruner, author, The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia: Czech
Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses Published in
Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The man the New York Times has called "the preeminent scholar of the Holocaust" tells the stories of those who caused, experienced, and witnessed the great human catastrophe.
The Destruction of the European Jews is widely considered the
landmark study of the Holocaust. First published in 1961, Raul
Hilberg's comprehensive account of how Germany annihilated the
Jewish community of Europe spurred discussion, galvanized further
research, and shaped the entire field of Holocaust studies. This
revised and expanded edition of Hilberg's classic work extends the
scope of his study and includes 80,000 words of new material,
particularly from recently opened archives in eastern Europe, added
over a lifetime of research. It is the work of a scholar who has
devoted more than fifty years to exploring and analyzing the
realities of the Holocaust. Spanning the twelve-year period of
anti-Jewish actions from 1933 to 1945, Hilberg's study encompasses
Germany and all the territories under German rule or influence. Its
principal focus is on the large number of perpetrators-civil
servants, military personnel, Nazi party functionaries, SS men, and
representatives of private enterprises-in the machinery of death.
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