Format:
1 Online-Ressource (368 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2020 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9780755624225
Content:
Introduction - the historical, educational and moral significance of the holocaust -- Part 1 The background and context: Jewish history from 2000 BC to c.1700 AD; the European Jew and the modern world from 1700; Nazism and modern Germany; "genocide" in the modern age -- Part 2 The Holocaust - a history: Nazi Germany, 1933-8 - anti-Jewish policy and legislation; Nazi Europe, 1938-41 - from Kristallnacht to ghettoization in the East; The Holocaust, 1941-5 - from dehumanization to annihilation. Part 3 Themes, issues and protagonists: perpetrators, victims and bystanders; the Jewish question - public opinion in Nazi Germany; the aftermath and impact of the Holocaust.
Content:
"The Holocaust of the Nazi era is one of the most momentous events in human history. Yet, despite whole libraries devoted to it, it remains on many levels a baffling and unfathomable mystery. By shunning simplistic "explanations" and offering questions rather than answers, Ronnie Landau has set out, in a clear, thought-provoking and enlightened fashion, to mediate between this vast, often unapproachable subject and the reader who wrestles with its meaning. Locating the Holocaust within a number of different contexts - Jewish history, German history, genocide in the modern age and the larger story of human bigotry and the triumph of ideology over conscience - the author has penetrated to the very heart of its moral, historical and educational significance. Deeply concerned lest the Holocaust, as a "unique" phenomenon, be cordoned off from the rest of human history and ghettoized within the highly charged realm of "Jewish experience", he is at pains to show that transmitting understanding of the Holocaust is, like all good education "about the making and not the breaking of connections"."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Also issued in print.
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780857728586
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780769714
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781850435174
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9780755624225
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