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The Holocaust and the Liberal Imagination

Author : Tony Kushner
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0631194835

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The Holocaust and the Liberal Imagination attempts to explain and not to condemn the responses and reactions of the democratic world to the attempted destruction of European Jewry. It concentrates on the impact of the Holocaust on ordinary people in the democracies and examines the actions of the nation-state in the light of popular responses. Ultimately this study argues that the Holocaust is not simply German, Jewish or continental history but is an integral but neglected part of the experience of many countries away from the killing fields. It is the first social and cultural history of its subject.

The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust

Author : Carolyn J. Dean
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501732409

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When we are confronted with images of and memoirs from the Holocaust and subsequent cases of vast cruelty and suffering, is our impulse to empathize put at risk by the possibility of becoming numb to horror? Carolyn J. Dean's provocative new book addresses the ways we evade our failures of empathy in the face of massive suffering: Has exposure (or overexposure) to representations of pain damaged our ability to feel? Do the frequent claims that artistic representations of extreme cruelty are pornographic allow us to dodge the real issues that we must confront in attempting to come to terms with suffering? Does an excess of terror place constraints on compassion?Dean examines the very different representations of suffering found in visual media, history writing, cultural criticism, and journalism that grapple with the assumption that Americans and Western Europeans have been rendered numb and their appropriate human responses blunted by the events of the past century. The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust will be of interest to all readers concerned with contemporary "victim culture," Holocaust representation, and humanism.

The Holocaust

Author : Donald Bloxham,Tony Kushner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0719037794

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Despite the massive literature on the Holocaust, our understanding of it has traditionally been influenced by rather unsophisticated early perspectives and silence. This book summarizes and criticizes the existing scholarship on the subject and suggests new ways by which we can approach its study. It addresses the use of victim testimony and asks important questions: What function does recording the past serve for the victim? What do historians want from it? Are these two perspectives incompatible? It also examines the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and compares them to those responsible for other acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the early years of the twentieth century. In addition, it looks at the bystanders--examining the complexity and ambiguity at the heart of contemporary reaction.

Disciplining the Holocaust

Author : Karyn Ball
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791475416

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"Disciplining the Holocaust examines critics' efforts to defend a rigorous and morally appropriate image of the Holocaust. Rather than limiting herself to polemics about the "proper" approach to traumatic history, Karyn Ball explores recent trends in intellectual history that govern a contemporary ethics of scholarship about the Holocaust. She examines the scholarly reception of Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, the debates culminating in Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Lyotard's response to negations of testimony about the gas chambers, psychoanalytically informed frameworks for the critical study of traumatic history, and a conference on feminist approaches to the Holocaust and genocide. Ball's book bridges the gap between psychoanalysis and Foucault's understanding of disciplinary power in order to highlight the social implications of traumatic history."--BOOK JACKET.

The Church of England and the Holocaust

Author : Tom Lawson
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1843832194

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Explores the Church of England's understanding of the Third Reich and its impact on the reactions to and memory of the Holocaust in Britain. Argues that the Anglican Church did not engage with the Third Reich through the prism of the persecution of the Jews. English Christians commonly perceived Nazism as significant through its anti-Christianity, as an attack on Christian culture, and not through its antisemitism. In the 1930s the Church was opposed to war, but when Nazi antisemitism became much more pronounced after 1938, the Church incorporated this persecution into its image of Nazism as anti-Christian. While there was some concern for Jewish victims (especially on the part of George Bell and William Temple), particular concern was expressed for the German Christian victims of totalitarianism. This led the Anglican Church, after the war, to favor reconstruction of West Germany as a buffer against communism and anti-Christianity. The Church objected to war crimes trials as being opposed to "Christian forgiveness" vs. the "Jewish" value of vengeance, a view which sought to reduce the significance of Nazi antisemitism and the Holocaust.

Bystanders to the Holocaust

Author : David Cesarani,Paul A. Levine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317791744

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Bystanders to the Holocaust by David Cesarani,Paul A. Levine Pdf

Using accessible archival sources, a team of historians reveal how much the USA, Britain, Switzerland and Sweden knew about the Nazi attempt to murder all the Jews of Europe during World War II.

Holocaust Historiography in Context

Author : David Bankier,Dan Mikhman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9653083260

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The modes in which historical research is being shaped have become themselves topics of research. Holocaust historiography - the documentation, depiction and analysis of one of the most horrific events in human history - is today a wide ranging academic field in which Jewish and non-Jewish scholars throughout the world are active. But how did this historiography, especially its Jewish aspect, emerge and by what factors was it shaped? This volume examines the very beginnings of the effort to apply scholarly standards to the understanding of the Holocaust - when World War II was still raging and immediately after it had ended.

Holocaust Consciousness in Contemporary Britain

Author : Andy Pearce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135046507

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The Holocaust is a pervasive presence in British culture and society. Schools have been legally required to deliver Holocaust education, the government helps to fund student visits to Auschwitz, the Imperial War Museum's permanent Holocaust Exhibition has attracted millions of visitors, and Britain has an annually commemorated Holocaust Memorial Day. What has prompted this development, how has it unfolded, and why has it happened now? How does it relate to Britain's post-war history, its contemporary concerns, and the wider "globalisation" of Holocaust memory? What are the multiple shapes that British Holocaust consciousness assumes and the consequences of their rapid emergence? Why have the so-called "lessons" of the Holocaust enjoyed such popularity in Britain? Through analysis of changing engagements with the Holocaust in political, cultural and memorial landscapes over the past generation, this book addresses these questions, demonstrating the complexities of Holocaust consciousness and reflecting on the contrasting ways that history is used in Britain today.

The Historiography of the Holocaust

Author : D. Stone
Publisher : Springer
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230524507

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This collection of essays by leading scholars in their fields provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Holocaust historiography available. Covering both long-established historical disputes as well as research questions and methodologies that have developed in the last decade's massive growth in Holocaust Studies, this collection will be of enormous benefit to students and scholars alike.

Annihilation

Author : Mark Levene
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199683048

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Annihilation by Mark Levene Pdf

Exploring the genocidal events of the period from 1912 to 1938 this title focuses particularly on the Balkans, the Great War and the emergence of the Stalin and Hitler States, and seeks to integrate them into a single, coherent history.

Reporting the Holocaust in the British, Swedish and Finnish Press, 1945-50

Author : A. Holmila
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230305861

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Reporting the Holocaust in the British, Swedish and Finnish Press, 1945-50 by A. Holmila Pdf

Examining how the press in Britain, Sweden and Finland responded to the Holocaust immediately after the Second World War, Holmila offers new insights into the challenge posed by the Holocaust for liberal democracies by looking at the reporting of the liberation of the camps, the Nuremberg trial and the Jewish immigration to Palestine.

Holocaust Education 25 Years On

Author : Andy Pearce,Arthur Chapman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429823725

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Holocaust Education 25 Years On by Andy Pearce,Arthur Chapman Pdf

The year 2016 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of statutory teaching and learning about the Holocaust in English state-maintained schools, which was introduced with the first English National Curriculum in 1991. The year 2016 also saw the publication of the largest empirical research study on Holocaust education outcomes – the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education’s What Do Students Know and Understand About the Holocaust? This book presents a systematic reflection on the outcomes of this quarter-century of Holocaust education in England and the Centre’s wider work to reflect on the forms and the limitations of children’s knowledge about the Holocaust and of English Holocaust education resources. These papers are then contextualised in two ways: through papers that situate English Holocaust education historiographically and in England’s wider Holocaust culture; and through papers from America, Switzerland, and Germany that place the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education’s findings in a wider and comparative perspective. Overall, the book presents unique empirical insights into teaching and learning processes and outcomes in Holocaust education and enables these to be theorised and explored systematically. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History.

From Monuments to Traces

Author : Rudy Koshar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520217683

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Koshar argues that in Germany, memory landscapes have taken shape according to four separate paradigms - the national monument, the ruin, the reconstruction, and the trace - which he analyzes in relation to the changing political agendas that have guided them over time."--BOOK JACKET.

Countering Contemporary Antisemitism in Britain

Author : Sarah K. Cardaun
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004300897

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Countering Contemporary Antisemitism in Britain by Sarah K. Cardaun Pdf

In Countering Contemporary Antisemitism in Britain, Sarah Cardaun presents a critical analysis of responses towards anti-Jewish prejudice in the UK and examines how government and civil society have attempted to combat both old and new forms of this age-old hatred in Britain.

Bystanders to the Holocaust

Author : David Cesarani,Paul A. Levine
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Holocaust, Jewish
ISBN : 0714682438

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Bystanders to the Holocaust by David Cesarani,Paul A. Levine Pdf

"This book is the first to use the new archival sources to examine the record of the 'free world' during the Nazi persecution and mass murder of the Jews, and ask why so little was done to help the Jews. Acclaimed historians and new researchers from round the world reveal how much Britain, the SUA, Switzerland, and Sweden knew about the fate of the Jews and explains why only a few, exceptional individuals understood the catastrophe that was unfolding." -- BOOK JACKET.