Kategoria BISAC: History >> Modern - 20th Century - Holocaust

This is the first book in English on Theresienstadt (Terezin) concentration camp in former Czechoslovakia and the only one of its kind which focuses on the women who were forced to live in it. Interwoven with the description of everyday life in the camp are memoirs and poems selected from the work of over twenty women. Carefully translated into English, these testimonies form an extraordinary and moving collection.

Surviving the Holocaust is a compelling sociological account of two brothers who survived the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland.　 One brother, the author's father, endured several concentration camps, including the infamous camp at Auschwitz, as well as a horrific winter death march; while the other brother, the author's uncle, survived outside the camps by passing as a Catholic among anti-Semitic Poles, including a group of anti-Nazi Polish Partisans, eventually becoming an officer in the Soviet army.　

As an exemplary "theorized life history," Surviving...

This volume explores literary and material representations of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Gathering leading scholars from within the field of Jewish Studies, it investigates how the debates surrounding literary and material images within Judaism and in Jewish life are part of an on-going strategy of image management - the urge to shape, direct, authorize and contain Jewish literary and material images and encounters with those images - a strategy both consciously and unconsciously undertaken within multifarious arenas of Jewish life from early...

Taking a cognitive approach, this book asks what poetry, and in particular Holocaust poetry, does to the reader - and to what extent the translation of this poetry can have the same effects. It is informed by current theoretical discussion and features many practical examples.

Holocaust poetry differs from other genres of writing about the Holocaust in that it is not so much concerned to document facts as to document feelings and the sense of an experience. It shares the potential of all poetry to have profound effects on the thoughts and feelings of the reader.

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This is the first academic book on Dutch colonial aspirations and initiatives during WWII. Between the summers of 1941 and 1944, some 5,500 Dutch men and women left their occupied homeland to find employment in the so-called German Occupied Eastern Territories: Belarus, the Baltic countries and parts of Ukraine. This was the area designated for colonization by Germanic people. It was also the stage of the "Holocaust by Bullets," a centrally coordinated policy of exploitation and oppression and a ruthless anti-partisan war. This book seeks to answer why the Dutch decided to go there, how...

Das Handbuch des Antisemitismus versammelt das vorhandene Wissen zum Phanomen der Judenfeindschaft ohne zeitliche und raumliche Begrenzung, Antisemitismus als altestes religioses, kulturelles, soziales und politisches Vorurteil wird in allen Aspekten dargestellt und erlautert: als Einstellung, als Politikmuster, als Instrumentalisierung von Emotionen, als Aggression vom Pogrom bis zum Genozid. Terminologische Probleme und Theorien der Antisemitismusforschung werden ebenso dargestellt wie Ereignisse und Sachkomplexe, Organisationen und Publikationen. Auch die Wirkungsgeschichte des...

Based on more than thirty years archival research, this history of the Jewish and German-Jewish community of Hamburg is a unique and vivid piece of work by one of the leading historians of the twentieth century. The history of the Holocaust here is fully integrated into the full history of the Jewish community in Hamburg from the late eighteenth century onwards. J.A.S. Grenville draws on a vast quantity of diaries, letters and records to provide a macro level history of Hamburg interspersed with many personal stories that bring it vividly to life. In the concluding chapter the discussion...

This work includes international secondary literature on anti-Semitism published throughout the world, from the earliest times to the present. It lists books, dissertations, and articles from periodicals and collections from a diverse range of disciplines. Written accounts are included among the recorded titles, as are manifestations of anti-Semitism in the visual arts (e.g. painting, caricatures or film), action taken against Jews and Judaism by discriminating judiciaries, pogroms, massacres and the systematic extermination during the Nazi period. The bibliography also covers works...

Containing an almost entirely new selection of texts, this second edition of The Holocaust: Origins, Implementation, Aftermath presents a critical and important study of the Holocaust. Many of the pieces challenge conventional analyses and preconceived notions about the Holocaust, whether regarding genocidal precedents and the centrality of antisemitism, the relationship between ideological motivation and economic calculations, or the timing of the decision on the Final Solution.

Starting with the background of the Holocaust and focusing on colonial violence, antisemitism...

Das Handbuch des Antisemitismus versammelt das vorhandene Wissen zum Phanomen der Judenfeindschaft ohne zeitliche und raumliche Begrenzung, Antisemitismus als altestes religioses, kulturelles, soziales und politisches Vorurteil wird in allen Aspekten dargestellt und erlautert: als Einstellung, als Politikmuster, als Instrumentalisierung von Emotionen, als Aggression vom Pogrom bis zum Genozid. Terminologische Probleme und Theorien der Antisemitismusforschung werden ebenso dargestellt wie Ereignisse und Sachkomplexe, Organisationen und Publikationen. Auch die Wirkungsgeschichte des...

Im 5. Band des Handbuchs des Antisemitismus behandeln mehr als 140 Autoren in 330 Artikeln Parteien und Vereine, staatliche Behorden und kirchliche Vereinigungen, Nichtregierungsorganisationen und informelle Gruppierungen, Institute, wissenschaftliche oder soziale Gesellschaften, in deren Programm oder Praxis Judenfeindschaft eine Rolle spielt. Ebenso sind Vereinigungen und Zusammenschlusse, die sich die Bekampfung des Antisemitismus zum Ziel gesetzt haben, in diesem Band zu finden. Judenfeindliche Gruppierungen waren (und sind teilweise noch) der Alldeutsche Verband, Antisemitenbund...

Seit dem Kaiserreich war der volkische Nationalismus in der Rechten verankert und gewann wahrend der Weimarer Republik sichtlich an politischer Relevanz. Das Handbuch beschreibt und analysiert den Ubergang vom Aufkommen rechtspopulistischer Wissenschaftsfelder seit der Jahrhundertwende bis hin zur Radikalisierung, Nazifizierung und Mobilisierung von Wissenschaftlern fur die Kriegs-, Umsiedlungs- und Vernichtungsabsichten in den Jahren bis 1944/45. Volkische Forschungsparadigmen wirkten in der Bundesrepublik auch danach noch weiter und konnen bis in die 1980er verfolgt werden. Die...

This volume, The Build-up of...

This seventh volume in the magisterial 10-volume series from the Militargeschichtliches Forschungsamt Research Institute for Military History] shows both Germany and her Japanese ally on the defensive, from 1943 into early 1945. It looks in depth at the strategic air war over the Reich and the mounting toll taken in the Battles of the Ruhr, Hamburg, and...