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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.
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.
Peter Hayes and John K. Roth: Introduction
I: Enablers
1: Richard S. Levy: Antisemitism
2: Patricia Heberer: Science
3: Eric D. Weitz: Nationalism
4: A. Dirk Moses: Colonialism
5: Philip Morgan: Fascism
6: Doris Bergen: World Wars
II: Protagonists
7: Alan E. Steinweis: Hitler and Himmler
8: Christopher Browning: Problem-Solvers
9: Edward Westermann: Killers
10: Paul Levine: On-Lookers
11: Debórah Dwork: Rescuers
12: Dan Michman: Jews
13: Lenore J. Weitzman: Women
14: Nicholas Stargardt: Children
15: Kevin P. Spicer: Catholics
16: Robert P. Ericksen: Protestants
17: Shlomo Aronson: The Allies
18: John Connelly: Gypsies/Homosexuals/Slavs
III: Settings
19: Wolf Gruner: Greater Germany
20: Wendy Lower: Living Space
21: Radu Ioanid: Occupied and Satellite States
22: Martin C. Dean: Ghettos
23: Mark Spoerer: Labor Sites
24: Karin Orth: Camps
IV: Representations
25: Peter Fritzsche: German Documents/Diaries
26: Amos Goldberg: Jews' Diaries/Chronicles
27: Henry Greenspan: Survivors' Accounts
28: Sara R. Horowitz: Literature
29: Lawrence Baron: Film
30: Dora Apel: Art
31: Bret Werb: Music
32: James E. Young: Memorials and Museums
V: Aftereffects
33: Arieh J. Kochavi: Liberation and Dispersal
34: Rebecca Wittmann: Punishment
35: Peter Hayes: Plunder and Restitution
36: Deborah E. Lipstadt: Denial
37: Boaz Cohen: Israel
38: Jeffrey Shandler: Jewish Culture
39: Michael Berenbaum: Judaism
40: Stephen R. Haynes: Christianity
41: Jeffrey Herf: Germany
42: Jan-Werner Müller: Europe
43: James E. Waller: The Social Sciences
44: Berel Lang: The Humanities
45: Simone Schweber: Education
46: David H. Jones: Human Rights Law
47: John K. Roth: Ethics
Peter Hayes and John K. Roth: Afterword
Peter Hayes is Theodore Z. Weiss Professor of Holocaust Studies,
Northwestern University.
John K. Roth is Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy,
Claremont McKenna College.
What the book brings instead are useful, intelligent, judicious,
and lucidly written summaries of the current scholarly consensus on
key issues within the field. The ideal user-I deliberately say user
and not reader-is a scholar of some related field, who, for
purposes of research or teaching, needs to get a grasp on a
particular aspect of the Holocaust without having to master a large
body of secondary literature.
*Andrew N. Koss Religious Studies Review*
To capture the current state of the field, the editors invited
contributions from Holocaust scholars of the second and third
generations a decision that pays off handsomely ... It should be
purchased by every university library in institutions where courses
on the Holocaust are taught.
*Donald G. Schilling, Holocaust and Genocide Studies*
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