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Yehuda Bauer, one of the world's premier historians of the
Holocaust, here presents an insightful overview and reconsideration
of its history and meaning. Drawing on research he and other
historians have done in recent years, he offers fresh opinions on
such basic issues as how to define and explain the Holocaust;
whether it can be compared with other genocides; how Jews reacted
to the murder campaign against them; and what the relationship is
between the Holocaust and the establishment of Israel. The
Holocaust says something terribly important about humanity, says
Bauer. He analyzes explanations of the Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman,
Jeffrey Herf, Goetz Aly, Daniel Goldhagen, John Weiss, and Saul
Friedlander and then offers his own interpretation of how the
Holocaust could occur. Providing fascinating narratives as
examples, he deals with reactions of Jewish men and women during
the Holocaust and tells of several attempts at rescue operations.
He also explores Jewish theology of the Holocaust, arguing that our
view of the Holocaust should not be clouded by mysticism: it was an
action by humans against other humans and is therefore an
explicable event that we can prevent from recurring.
Focus on the efforts made to aid European victims of World War II
by the New York-based American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
The theme of this book is the gradual emergence of the Jewish
people from total political powerlessness - a development
stretching over nearly 100 years and culminating in the
consolidation in the State of Israel. Ironically, Professor Bauer
demonstrates, events during this period stemmed in part from a
belief in the power of the international Jewish community that
never existed - but that motivated both the Germans and, after the
war, the British. This is a brief but absorbing study by one of the
world's great experts on the Holocaust, who has drawn on a huge
body of material to depict one of the unforgettable events in
recent history from an arresting and unfamiliar point of view.
The situation of the Roma in Europe, especially in the former
communist states, is one of the more important human rights issues
on the agenda of the international community, especially in the
Euro-Atlantic bodies of integration. Within European states that
have Roma populations there is a growing awareness that the matter
must be confronted, and that there is a need for a concentrated
effort to solve social problems and ease tensions between the Roma
and the European nations among which they dwell. This volume is the
result of an international conference held at Tel Aviv University
in December 2002. The conference, one of the largest held among the
academic community in the last decade, served as a unique forum for
a multidisciplinary discussion on the past and present of the Roma
in which both Roma and non-Roma scholars from various countries
engaged.
The world has recently learned of Oskar Schindler's efforts to save
the lives of Jewish workers in his factory in Poland by bribing
Nazi officials. Not as well known, however, are many other equally
dramatic attempts to negotiate with the Nazis for the release of
Jews in exchange for money, goods, or political benefits. In this
riveting book, a leading Holocaust scholar examines these attempts,
describing the cast of characters, the motives of the participants,
the frustrations and few successes, and the moral issues raised by
the negotiations. Drawing on a wealth of previously unexamined
sources, Yehuda Bauer deals with the fact that before the war
Hitler himself was willing to permit the total emigration of Jews
from Germany in order to be rid of them. In the end, however, there
were not enough funds for the Jews to buy their way out, there was
no welcome for them abroad, and there was too little time before
war began. Bauer then concentrates on the negotiations that took
place between 1942 and 1945 as Himmler tried to keep open options
for a separate peace with the Western powers. In fascinating detail
Bauer portrays the dramatic intrigues that took place: a group of
Jewish leaders bribed a Nazi official to stop the deportation of
Slovakian Jews; a Czech Jew known as Dogwood tried to create an
alliance between American leaders and conservative German
anti-Nazis; Adolf Eichmann's famous "trucks for blood" proposal to
exchange one million Jews for trucks to use against the Soviets
failed because of Western reluctance; and much more. Tormenting
questions arise throughout Bauer's discussion. If the Nazis were
actually willing to surrender more Jews, should the Allies have
acted on the offer? Did the efforts to exchange lives for money
constitute collaboration with the enemy or heroism? In answering
these questions, Bauer's book-engrossing, profound, and deeply
moving-adds a new dimension to Holocaust studies.
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