Advancing Holocaust Studies

Author : Carol Rittner,John K. Roth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000091953

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Advancing Holocaust Studies by Carol Rittner,John K. Roth Pdf

The growing field of Holocaust studies confronts a world wracked by antisemitism, immigration and refugee crises, human rights abuses, mass atrocity crimes, threats of nuclear war, the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic, and environmental degradation. What does it mean to advance Holocaust studies—what are learning and teaching about the Holocaust for—in such dire straits? Vast resources support study and memorialization of the Holocaust. What assumptions govern that investment? What are its major successes and failures, challenges and prospects? Across thirteen chapters, Advancing Holocaust Studies shows how leading scholars grapple with those tough questions.

Author : John K. Roth
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498283366

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Holocaust Politics by John K. Roth Pdf

More than half a century after Nazi Germany's genocidal assault on the Jewish people, the Holocaust grips our attention as never before, raising hotly-debated questions: How is the Holocaust best remembered? What are its lessons? Who gets to answer those questions? Who owns the Holocaust? Those issues provoke disagreements that can be cutthroat or constructive. Taking its point of departure from the controversy that swirled around John Roth's aborted appointment as director of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, a senior post at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, Holocaust Politics shows how contemporary attitudes and priorities compete to determine that all-important difference.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : LCCN:2013414231

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The Holocaust in Ukraine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard L. Rubenstein,John K. Roth
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611642148

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Approaches to Auschwitz, Revised Edition by Richard L. Rubenstein,John K. Roth Pdf

Distinctively coauthored by a Christian scholar and a Jewish scholar, this monumental, interdisciplinary study explores the various ways in which the Holocaust has been studied and assesses its continuing significance. The authors develop an analysis of the Holocaust's historical roots, its shattering impact on human civilization, and its decisive importance in determining the fate of the world. This revised edition takes into account developments in Holocaust studies since the first edition was published.

Author : Patricia Heberer
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780759119864

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Children during the Holocaust by Patricia Heberer Pdf

Children during the Holocaust, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, tells the story of the Holocaust through the eyes, and fates, of its youngest victims. The ten chapters follow the arc of the persecutory policies of the Nazis and their sympathizers and the impact these measures had on Jewish children and adolescents—from the years leading to the war, to the roundups, deportations, and emigrations, to hidden life and death in the ghettos and concentration camps, and to liberation and coping in the wake of war. This volume examines the reactions of children to discrimination, the loss of livelihood in Jewish homes, and the public humiliation at the hands of fellow citizens and explores the ways in which children's experiences paralleled and diverged from their adult counterparts. Additional chapters reflect upon the role of non-Jewish children as victims, perpetrators, and bystanders during World War II. Offering a collection of personal letters, diaries, court testimonies, government documents, military reports, speeches, newspapers, photographs, and artwork, Children during the Holocaust highlights the diversity of children's experiences during the nightmare years of the Holocaust.

Author : John K. Roth
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198725336

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The Failures of Ethics by John K. Roth Pdf

Defined by deliberation about the difference between right and wrong, encouragement not to be indifferent toward that difference, resistance against what is wrong, and action in support of what is right, ethics is civilization's keystone. The Failures of Ethics concentrates on the multiple shortfalls and shortcomings of thought, decision, and action that tempt and incite us human beings to inflict incalculable harm. Absent the overriding of moral sensibilities, if not the collapse or collaboration of ethical traditions, the Holocaust, genocide, and other mass atrocities could not have happened. Although these catastrophes do not pronounce the death of ethics, they show that ethics is vulnerable, subject to misuse and perversion, and that no simple reaffirmation of ethics, as if nothing disastrous had happened, will do. Moral and religious authority has been fragmented and weakened by the accumulated ruins of history and the depersonalized advances of civilization that have taken us from a bloody twentieth century into an immensely problematic twenty-first. What nevertheless remain essential are spirited commitment and political will that embody the courage not to let go of the ethical but to persist for it in spite of humankind's self-inflicted destructiveness. Salvaging the fragmented condition of ethics, this book shows how respect and honor for those who save lives and resist atrocity, deepened attention to the dead and to death itself, and appeals for human rights and renewed spiritual sensitivity confirm that ethics contains and remains an irreplaceable safeguard against its own failures.

Author : Wendy Lower,Lauren Faulkner Rossi
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810134508

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Lessons and Legacies XII by Wendy Lower,Lauren Faulkner Rossi Pdf

Lessons and Legacies XII explores new directions in research and teaching in the field of Holocaust studies. The essays in this volume present the most cutting-edge methods and topics shaping Holocaust studies today, from a variety of disciplines: forensics, environmental history, cultural studies, religious studies, labor history, film studies, history of medicine, sociology, pedagogy, and public history. This rich compendium reveals how far Holocaust studies have reached into cultural studies, perpetrator history, and comparative genocide history. Scholars, laypersons, teachers, and the myriad organizations devoted to Holocaust memorialization and education will find these essays useful and illuminating.

Author : Peter Hayes,Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : LCCN:2013487389

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Holocaust Studies by Peter Hayes,Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Pdf

Author : Suzanne Brown-Fleming
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442251755

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Nazi Persecution and Postwar Repercussions by Suzanne Brown-Fleming Pdf

Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The International Tracing Service, one of the largest Holocaust-related archival repositories in the world, holds millions of documents that enrich our understanding of the many forms of persecution during the Nazi era and its continued repercussions ever since. Drawing on a selection of recently available documents from the archive, this essential resource provides new insights into human decision-making in genocidal settings, the factors that drive it, and its far-reaching consequences. The sources that the author has collected and contextualized here reflect the full range of behaviors and roles that victims, their oppressors, beneficiaries, and postwar aid organizations played beginning in 1933, through World War II, the Holocaust, and up to the present.

Author : Carol Rittner,John K. Roth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780313019043

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From the Unthinkable to the Unavoidable by Carol Rittner,John K. Roth Pdf

In the last half century, ways of thinking about the Holocaust have changed somewhat dramatically. In this volume, noted scholars reflect on how their own thinking about the Holocaust has changed over the years. In their personal stories they confront the questions that the Holocaust has raised for them and explore how these questions have been evolving. Contributors include John T. Pawlikowski, Richard L. Rubenstein, Michael Berenbaum, and Eva Fleischner.

Author : Geoffrey P. Megargee
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1701 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253003508

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945: Volume I by Geoffrey P. Megargee Pdf

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: “This valuable resource covers an aspect of the Holocaust rarely addressed and never in such detail.” —Library Journal This is the first volume in a monumental seven-volume encyclopedia, reflecting years of work by the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which will describe the universe of camps and ghettos—many thousands more than previously known—that the Nazis and their allies operated, from Norway to North Africa and from France to Russia. For the first time, a single reference work will provide detailed information on each individual site. This first volume covers three groups of camps: the early camps that the Nazis established in the first year of Hitler’s rule, the major SS concentration camps with their constellations of subcamps, and the special camps for Polish and German children and adolescents. Overview essays provide context for each category, while each camp entry provides basic information about the site’s purpose; prisoners; guards; working and living conditions; and key events in the camp’s history. Material from personal testimonies helps convey the character of the site, while source citations provide a path to additional information.

Author : Natalia Aleksiun
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789624304

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Conscious History by Natalia Aleksiun Pdf

Thoroughly researched, this study highlights the historical scholarship that is one of the lasting legacies of interwar Polish Jewry and analyses its political and social context. As Jewish citizens struggled to assert their place in a newly independent Poland, a dedicated group of Jewish scholars fascinated by history devoted themselves to creating a sense of Polish Jewish belonging while also fighting for their rights as an ethnic minority. The political climate made it hard for these men and women to pursue an academic career; instead they had to continue their efforts to create and disseminate Polish Jewish history by teaching outside the university and publishing in scholarly and popular journals. By introducing the Jewish public to a pantheon of historical heroes to celebrate and anniversaries to commemorate, they sought to forge a community aware of its past, its cultural heritage, and its achievements---though no less important were their efforts to counter the increased hostility towards Jews in the public discourse of the day. In highlighting the role of public intellectuals and the social role of scholars and historical scholarship, this study adds a new dimension to the understanding of the Polish Jewish world in the interwar period.

Author : Alon Confino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139502184

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Foundational Pasts by Alon Confino Pdf

Alon Confino seeks to rethink dominant interpretations of the Holocaust by examining it as a problem in cultural history. As the main research interests of Holocaust scholars are frequently covered terrain – the anti-Semitic ideological campaign, the machinery of killing, the brutal massacres during the war – Confino's research goes in a new direction. He analyzes the culture and sensibilities that made it possible for the Nazis and other Germans to imagine the making of a world without Jews. Confino seeks these insights from the ways historians interpreted another short, violent and foundational event in modern European history – the French Revolution. The comparison of the ways we understand the Holocaust with scholars' interpretations of the French Revolution allows Confino to question some of the basic assumptions of present-day historians concerning historical narration, explanation and understanding.

Author : Claudio Fogu,Wulf Kansteiner,Todd Presner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674970519

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Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture by Claudio Fogu,Wulf Kansteiner,Todd Presner Pdf

Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture is a reappraisal of the controversies that have shaped Holocaust studies since the 1980s. Historians, artists, and writers question if and why the Holocaust should remain the ultimate test case for ethics and a unique reference point for how we understand genocide and crimes against humanity.

Author : Charlotte Schallié,Helga Thorson,Andrea van Noord
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0889777640

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After the Holocaust by Charlotte Schallié,Helga Thorson,Andrea van Noord Pdf

After the Holocaust brings together scholarship, activism, poetry, and personal narratives from some of the last living survivors of the Holocaust to tackle the changing face of Holocaust and human rights education in the 21st century. The collected voices draw on decades of research on the Holocaust and discuss how it can help us understand and educate about a range of human rights issues throughout history, and, in turn, that local histories of other human rights atrocities can shed light on the way the Holocaust is represented and taught. Advancing the dialogue between civic advocacy, public remembrance, and research, the contributors of this edited collection discuss Holocaust education's broad relevance in a human rights framework. After the Holocaust also focuses on the Canadian context of antisemitism, the legacy of human rights abuses of Indigenous Peoples in Canada, and the internment of Japanese Canadians in World War II, and examines the ways that the Holocaust provided a template for thinking through human rights legislation and memorialization on a global scale after the Holocaust. "The first- and second-generation survivor accounts are treasures--invaluable reflections that anchor this collection." --David MacDonald, author of The Sleeping Giant Awakens: Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation