Sources Of Holocaust Insight

Author : John K. Roth
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781532674204

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Sources of Holocaust Insight by John K. Roth Pdf

Sources of Holocaust Insight maps the odyssey of an American Christian philosopher who has studied, written, and taught about the Holocaust for more than fifty years. What findings result from John Roth's journey; what moods pervade it? How have events and experiences, scholars and students, texts and testimonies--especially the questions they raise--affected Roth's Holocaust studies and guided his efforts to heed the biblical proverb: "Whatever else you get, get insight"? More sources than Roth can acknowledge have informed his encounters with the Holocaust. But particular persons--among them Elie Wiesel, Raul Hilberg, Primo Levi, and Albert Camus--loom especially large. Revisiting Roth's sources of Holocaust insight, this book does so not only to pay tribute to them but also to show how the ethical, philosophical, and religious reverberations of the Holocaust confer and encourage responsibility for human well-being in the twenty-first century. Seeing differently, seeing better--sound learning and teaching about the Holocaust aim for what may be the most important Holocaust insight of all: Take nothing good for granted.

Author : Steve Hochstadt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350328075

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Sources of the Holocaust by Steve Hochstadt Pdf

The Holocaust was the defining trauma of the 20th century. How do we begin to understand the Nazi drive to murder millions of people, or the determination of concentration camp prisoners to survive? This new and improved edition of Sources of the Holocaust brings together over 90 original Holocaust documents and testimonies to put the reader into direct contact with the genocide's human participants. From the origins of Christian antisemitism and the creation of monstrous 'Others' to the immediate aftermath of these crimes against humanity and the rise of right-wing ideologies in the 21st century, this book is structured both chronologically and thematically in order to clearly explain the ideas that made the Holocaust possible, how people mounted resistance at the time, and the Holocaust's legacy today. On top of this unparalleled access to the voices of the Holocaust, Steve Hochstadt's authoritative and scholarly commentaries on each source ensures readers gain a comprehensive understanding of this terrible episode in human history. Shocking and compelling, this carefully curated collection of primary sources is the definitive account of Holocaust experiences and vital reading for all scholars of modern European history.

Author : Facing History and Ourselves
Publisher : Facing History & Ourselves National Foundation, Incorporated
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1940457181

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Holocaust and Human Behavior by Facing History and Ourselves Pdf

Holocaust and Human Behavior uses readings, primary source material, and short documentary films to examine the challenging history of the Holocaust and prompt reflection on our world today

Author : Steve Hochstadt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350328075

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Sources of the Holocaust by Steve Hochstadt Pdf

The Holocaust was the defining trauma of the 20th century. How do we begin to understand the Nazi drive to murder millions of people, or the determination of concentration camp prisoners to survive? This new and improved edition of Sources of the Holocaust brings together over 90 original Holocaust documents and testimonies to put the reader into direct contact with the genocide's human participants. From the origins of Christian antisemitism and the creation of monstrous 'Others' to the immediate aftermath of these crimes against humanity and the rise of right-wing ideologies in the 21st century, this book is structured both chronologically and thematically in order to clearly explain the ideas that made the Holocaust possible, how people mounted resistance at the time, and the Holocaust's legacy today. On top of this unparalleled access to the voices of the Holocaust, Steve Hochstadt's authoritative and scholarly commentaries on each source ensures readers gain a comprehensive understanding of this terrible episode in human history. Shocking and compelling, this carefully curated collection of primary sources is the definitive account of Holocaust experiences and vital reading for all scholars of modern European history.

Author : Lucy S. Dawidowicz
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 0874412366

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A Holocaust Reader by Lucy S. Dawidowicz Pdf

A collection of official and private documents traces the growth of and reveals the Jewish response to German anti-Semitism during World War II.

Author : Yehuda Bauer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300093004

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Rethinking the Holocaust by Yehuda Bauer Pdf

Drawing on research from various historians, the author offers opinions on how to define and explain the Holocaust, comparison to other genocides, and the connection between the Holocaust and the establishment of Israel.

Author : Jennifer Lemberg,Alexander Pope
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807764367

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Becoming a Holocaust Educator by Jennifer Lemberg,Alexander Pope Pdf

"Experienced educators share how they conceive of Holocaust education as based in writing and inquiry This book offers reflections on how professional development helps guide teacher growth and success, and examinations of the ways professional organizations and networks can support teachers trying to teach challenging content"--

Author : J. Geddes,J. Roth,Jules Simon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230620940

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The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust by J. Geddes,J. Roth,Jules Simon Pdf

The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust advances the idea that the Holocaust undermined confidence in basic beliefs about human rights and shows steps of salvage and retrieval that need to be taken if ethics is to be a significant presence in a world still besieged by genocide and atrocity.

Author : John K. Roth
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Raul Hilberg
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015053118843

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Sources of Holocaust Research by Raul Hilberg Pdf

Hilberg distills a lifetime of scholarly investigation into an indispensable primer on the use of sources in the writing of Holocaust history.

Author : Claire Zalc,Tal Bruttmann
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785333675

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Microhistories of the Holocaust by Claire Zalc,Tal Bruttmann Pdf

How does scale affect our understanding of the Holocaust? In the vastness of its implementation and the sheer amount of death and suffering it produced, the genocide of Europe’s Jews presents special challenges for historians, who have responded with work ranging in scope from the world-historical to the intimate. In particular, recent scholarship has demonstrated a willingness to study the Holocaust at scales as focused as a single neighborhood, family, or perpetrator. This volume brings together an international cast of scholars to reflect on the ongoing microhistorical turn in Holocaust studies, assessing its historiographical pitfalls as well as the distinctive opportunities it affords researchers.

Author : Peter Hayes,John K. Roth
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191650789

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The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies by Peter Hayes,John K. Roth Pdf

Few scholarly fields have developed in recent decades as rapidly and vigorously as Holocaust Studies. At the start of the twenty-first century, the persecution and murder perpetrated by the Nazi regime have become the subjects of an enormous literature in multiple academic disciplines and a touchstone of public and intellectual discourse in such diverse fields as politics, ethics and religion. Forward-looking and multi-disciplinary, this handbook draws on the work of an international team of forty-seven outstanding scholars. The handbook is thematically divided into five broad sections. Part One, Enablers, concentrates on the broad and necessary contextual conditions for the Holocaust. Part Two, Protagonists, concentrates on the principal persons and groups involved in the Holocaust and attempts to disaggregate the conventional interpretive categories of perpetrator, victim, and bystander. It examines the agency of the Nazi leaders and killers and of those involved in resisting and surviving the assault. Part Three, Settings, concentrates on the particular places, sites, and physical circumstances where the actions of the Holocaust's protagonists and the forms of persecution were literally grounded. Part Four, Representations, engages complex questions about how the Holocaust can and should be grasped and what meaning or lack of meaning might be attributed to events through historical analysis, interpretation of texts, artistic creation and criticism, and philosophical and religious reflection. Part Five, Aftereffects, explores the Holocaust's impact on politics and ethics, education and religion, national identities and international relations, the prospects for genocide prevention, and the defense of human rights.

Author : Carol Rittner,John K. Roth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Henri Lustiger Thaler
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814343029

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Witnessing Unbound by Henri Lustiger Thaler Pdf

Primary witnessing, in its original forms—from survivor and bystander testimonies, to memoirs and diaries—inform our cultural understanding of the multiple experiences of the Holocaust. Henri Lustiger Thaler and Habbo Knoch look at many of these expressions of primary witnessing in Witnessing Unbound: Holocaust Representation and the Origins of Memory, which is particularly relevant today with the hastening decline of the Holocaust survivor demographic and the cultural spaces for representation it leaves in its wake, in addition to the inevitable and cyclical search for generational relevancy, siphoned through acts of memory. The essays in Witnessing Unbound are written by some of the leading figures on the theme of witnessing as well as scholars exploring new primary sources of knowledge about the Holocaust and genocide. These include a focus on the victims: the perished and survivors whose discursive worlds are captured in testimonies, diaries, and memoirs; the witnessing of peasant bystanders to the terror; historical religious writing by rabbis during and after the war as a proto memoir for destroyed communities, and the archive as a solitary witness, a constructed memory in the aftermath of a genocide. The experiences showcased and analyzed within this memorializing focus introduce previously unknown voices, and end with reflections on the Belzec Memorial and Museum. One survivor moves hearts with the simple insight, “I died in Auschwitz, but no one knows [sees] it.” In counterpoint is a court case with SS General Karl Wolff, who has conveniently forgotten his crimes during the Holocaust. Original experience and its reimagination within contemporary frameworks make sense of an event that continues to adapt and change metaphorically and globally. As one of the contributors writes: “In my mind, the ‘era of the witness’ begins when the historical narrative consists of first-person accounts.” Witnessing Unbound augers in the near completion of that defining era, by introducing a collection of diverse reflections and mediations on witnessing and memory. A must-read for the further understanding of the Holocaust, its cruel reality, and its afterdeath.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210024824862

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Guidelines for Teaching about the Holocaust by Anonim Pdf