Samuel Totten Steven Leonard Jacobs Paul R. Bartrop
This collection of fourteen essays by renowned scholars in the field of Holocaust studies seeks to reflect on the experience of teaching and researching this complicated and emotional topic. Contained within are the pioneering stories of those presently engaged in the work of Holocaust education. Separately, they represent a variety of disciplines and orientations. Collectively, they give evidence of the strong commitment to continue this important work, and the moral and ethical demands such teaching, writing, and research place upon all who engage in it. Different perspectives from...
This collection of fourteen essays by renowned scholars in the field of Holocaust studies seeks to reflect on the experience of teaching and resear...
In Search of Yesterday is a distillation of the author's writings about the Holocaust / Shoah over the span of the last several years in three distinct areas: family stories, the quest for meaning in seemingly inexplicable events, and rethinking and reinterpreting biblical texts in light of the Holocaust / Shoah.
In Search of Yesterday is a distillation of the author's writings about the Holocaust / Shoah over the span of the last several years in three distinc...
This is a story of the Jewish experience through history, which introduces and explains the many dimensions of Jewish life as cycles through which Jewish history, thought, writing, and practices have evolved and continue to mature. Steven Jacobs writes a clear and straightforward introduction which explains the basics of Jewish history; the tradition of texts; key philosophical and theological issues and thinkers; the Judaic calendar; and contemporary global concerns and what the future may portend for Judaism
This is a story of the Jewish experience through history, which introduces and explains the many dimensions of Jewish life as cycles through which Jew...
The Temple Scroll, the last of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in 1967, contains two phenomena that are at variance with the Jewish tradition. Professor Jacobs presents a thorough study of ligature writing or 'joined letters' and the insertion of both words and phrases
The Temple Scroll, the last of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in 1967, contains two phenomena that are at variance with the Jewish tradition. Professor Ja...
From the early efforts that emerged in the struggle against Nazism, and over the past half century, the field of genocide studies has grown in reach to include five genocide centers across the globe and well over one hundred Holocaust centers. This work enables a new generation of scholars, researchers, and policymakers to assess the major foci of the field, develop ways and means to intervene and prevent future genocides, and review the successes and failures of the past.
The contributors to Pioneers of Genocide Studies approach the questions of greatest relevance in a...
From the early efforts that emerged in the struggle against Nazism, and over the past half century, the field of genocide studies has grown in reac...
Providing an annotated commentary on two unpublished manuscripts written by international law and genocide scholar Raphael Lemkin, Steven L. Jacobs offers a critical introduction to the father of genocide studies. Lemkin coined the term 'genocide' and was the motivating force behind the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide. The materials collected here give readers further insight into this singularly courageous man and the issue which consumed him in the aftermath of the Second World War.
Providing an annotated commentary on two unpublished manuscripts written by international law and genocide scholar Raphael Lemkin, Steven L. Jacobs of...
