For many years, histories of the Holocaust focused on its perpetrators, and only recently have more scholars begun to consider in detail the experiences of victims and survivors, as well as the documents they left behind. This volume contains new research from internationally established scholars. It provides an introduction to and overview of Jewish narratives of the Holocaust. The essays include new considerations of sources ranging from diaries and oral testimony to the hidden Oyneg Shabbes archive of the Warsaw Ghetto; arguments regarding Jewish narratives and how they fit into the larger fields of Holocaust and Genocide studies; and new assessments of Jewish responses to mass murder ranging from ghetto leadership to resistance and memory.
On the theoretical problems of writing history, the touchstone remains Saul Friedländer, ed., Probing the Limits of ... Trauma (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994), History and Memory after Auschwitz (Ithaca: Cornell University ...
Holocaust history written and researched by the Yiddish scholars who lived it.
Liberles, Salo Wittmayer Baron, 10–11; Biale, Power and Powerlessness, 5–6 (cf. idem, “Modern Jewish Ideologies,” 12); Rackman, “Violence,” 119. 166. Baron, “Newer Emphases,” 240. 167. Cf. Liberles, Salo Wittmayer Baron, 11. 168.
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The Holocaust: A New History is an accessible yet authoritative account of this terrible crime. A chronological, intensely readable narrative, this is a compelling exposition of humanity's darkest moment.
This important collection will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of the Holocaust.
In this invaluable book, Michael R. Marrus presents a judicious and lucid survey of their views, together with his own conclusions.
This volume contains new research from internationally established scholars. It provides an introduction to and overview of Jewish narratives of the Holocaust.
Essays discuss the study of Holocaust history, Nazi Germany, concentration camps, Jewish resistance, rescuers of Jews, and survivors.
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