Jewish Histories of the Holocaust : : New Transnational Approaches /

Jewish Histories of the Holocaust : : New Transnational Approaches / / ed. by Norman J.W. Goda.

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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. I...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Bartov, Omer,
Bender, Sara,
Blatman, Daniel,
Bowman, Steven,
Friling, Tuvia,
Garbarini, Alexandra,
Goda, Norman J.W.,
Horowitz, Sara R.,
Horwitz, Gordon J.,
Kassow, Samuel,
Kochavi, Arieh J.,
Meng, Michael,
Michman, Dan,
Moore, Bob,
Poznanski, Renée,
Snyder, Timothy,
HerausgeberIn:
Goda, Norman J.W.,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Making Sense of History ; 19
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Physical Description:1 online resource (316 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Part I THEORETICAL OVERVIEWS
  • CHAPTER 1 The Jewish Dimension of the Holocaust in Dire Straits? Current Challenges of Interpretation and Scope
  • CHAPTER 2 The Holocaust as a Regional History: Explaining the Bloodlands
  • Part II NEW APPROACHES TO JEWISH LEADERSHIP
  • CHAPTER 3 An Overwhelming Presence: Reflections on Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski and His Place in Our Understanding of the Łódź Ghetto
  • CHAPTER 4 Similarity and Differences: A Comparative Study between the Ghettos in Białystok and Kielce
  • Part III DOCUMENTATION, TESTIMONY, AND EXPERIENCE
  • CHAPTER 5 Diaries, Testimonies, and Jewish Histories of the Holocaust
  • CHAPTER 6 The Voice of Your Brother’s Blood: Reconstructing Genocide on the Local Level
  • CHAPTER 7 “If He Knows to Make a Child…” Memories of Birth and Baby-Killing in Deferred Jewish Testimony Narratives
  • CHAPTER 8 “Why Didn’t They Mow Us Down Right Away?” The Death-March Experience in Survivors’ Testimonies and Memoirs
  • Part IV RETHINKING SELF-HELP AND RESISTANCE
  • CHAPTER 9 Documenting Catastrophe: The Ringelblum Archive and the Warsaw Ghetto
  • CHAPTER 10 Integrating Self-Help into the History of Jewish Survival in Western Europe
  • CHAPTER 11 Jewish Communists in France During World War II: Resistance and Identity
  • Chapter 12 Freedom and Death: The Jews and the Greek Andartiko
  • Part V AFTERMATH Politics, Aesthetics, and Memory
  • CHAPTER 13 Contested Memory: A Story of a Kapo in Auschwitz— History, Memory, and Politics
  • CHAPTER 14 Pressure Groups versus the American and British Administrations during and after World War II
  • CHAPTER 15 Traveling to Germany and Poland: Toward a Textual Montage of Jewish Emotions after the Holocaust
  • Contributors
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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