The Holocaust in Historical Context: The Holocaust and Mass Death Before the Modern Age: 001 - Hardcover

The Holocaust in Historical Context, Volume I: The Holocaust and Mass Death Before the Modern Age.

Zustand: Gut. 702 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Condition: Minimally soiled dust jacket. Pencil note on endpaper. Otherwise in perfect condition. Enclosed is a newspaper clipping regarding the awarding of the Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize to Steven T. Katz as well as two newspaper articles from the Schwäbisches Tagesblatt addressing the awarding and an article titled "A Debate About Teaching the Holocaust" by Steven T. Katz from the New York Times, August 8, 1998. / Zustand: Minimal verschmutzter Schutzumschlag. Bleistiftnotiz auf Vorsatz. Asnsonsten im einwandfreien Zustand. Beiliegend ein Zeitungsausschnitt bezüglich der Verleihung des Dr. Leopold-Lucas-Preises an Steven T. Katz sowie zwei Zeitungsartikel aus der Schwäbisches Tagesblatt die Verleihung thematisierend und ein Artikel mit der Überschrift "A Debate About Teaching the Holocaust" von Steven T. Katz aus der New York Times vom 8. August 1998. - Content: With this volume, renowned scholar Steven T. Katz initiates the provocative argument that the Holocaust is a singular event in human history. Unlike any previous work on the subject, The Holocaust in Historical Context maintains that the Sho'ah is the only example of true genocide a systematic attempt to kill all the members of a group in history. In a richly documented, subtly argued, and amazingly wide-ranging comparative historical and phenomenological analysis, Katz explores the philosophical and historiographical implications of the uniqueness of the Holocaust. First establishing the nature and definition of genocide, Katz then examines other occasions of mass death to which the Holocaust is regularly compared from slavery in the classical world to the medieval and early modern persecution of heretics, and in the coming volumes, from the depopulation of the New World to the Armenian massacres during World War I, and from the Gulag to Cambodia. In this, the first of three volumes, Katz, after setting the groundwork for his analysis with four chapters dealing with essential methodological issues, begins his comparative case studies with slavery in the ancient Greek and Roman world and continues with such subjects as medieval antisemitism, the European witch craze, the medieval wars of religion, the medieval persecution of homosexuals, and the French campaign against Huguenots. Throughout this investigation of pre-modern Jewish and non-Jewish history, Katz looks at the ways in which the Holocaust has precedents and parallels and in what way it stands alone as a singular, highly distinctive historical event. Steven T. Katz is Professor of Jewish History and Thought in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. He has written extensively in the fields of Jewish studies and comparative mysticism and is the editor of the journal Modern Judaism. Previously published with Oxford are Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis, Mysticism and Religious Traditions, and Mysticism and Language.age. ISBN 9780195072204 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1328 Original hardcover with dust jacket. Artikel-Nr. 1176787

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