The Holocaust: A Reader - Hardcover

 
9781405113991: The Holocaust: A Reader
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1405113995 ISBN 13: 9781405113991
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

This interdisciplinary collection of primary and secondary readings encourages scholars and students to engage critically with current debates about the origins, implementation and postwar interpretation of the Holocaust.


  • Interdisciplinary content encourages students to engage with philosophical, political, cultural and literary debate as well as historiographical issues.
  • Integrates oral histories and testimonies from both victims and perpetrators, including Jewish council leaders, victims of ghettos and camps, SS officials and German soldiers.
  • Subsections can be used as the basis for oral or written exercises.
  • Whole articles or substantial extracts are included wherever possible.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Simone Gigliotti is a lecturer in the History Program at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and a Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Previously, she taught at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, and was a visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC.


Berel Lang is Professor of Humanities at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. His many books include The Future of the Holocaust: Between History and Memory (1999) and Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide (1990). His forthcoming book is Post-Holocaust: Interpretation, Misinterpretation, and the Claims of History.

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The Holocaust: A Reader is an innovative interdisciplinary resource. Combining primary and secondary sources with editorial narrative, it enables scholars and students to engage critically with current debates about the origins, implementation, and postwar interpretation of the Holocaust.


The Reader is divided into six chronological sections and contains thematic subsections, each of which can be used by instructors as the basis for oral or written exercises. Oral histories and the testimonies of both victims and perpetrators – from Jewish council leaders, to ghetto and concentration camp victims, to SS officials and German soldiers – are integrated throughout, allowing scholars and students to see how underlying historical attitudes and policies evolved. Secondary sources are selected from the best recent literature on the Holocaust across a range of disciplines. Whole articles or substantial extracts are included wherever possible.

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The Holocaust: A Reader is an innovative interdisciplinary resource. Combining primary and secondary sources with editorial narrative, it enables scholars and students to engage critically with current debates about the origins, implementation, and postwar interpretation of the Holocaust.


The Reader is divided into six chronological sections and contains thematic subsections, each of which can be used by instructors as the basis for oral or written exercises. Oral histories and the testimonies of both victims and perpetrators – from Jewish council leaders, to ghetto and concentration camp victims, to SS officials and German soldiers – are integrated throughout, allowing scholars and students to see how underlying historical attitudes and policies evolved. Secondary sources are selected from the best recent literature on the Holocaust across a range of disciplines. Whole articles or substantial extracts are included wherever possible.

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Verlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1405113995
ISBN 13 
9781405113991
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
485
Herausgeber
Gigliotti Simone, Lang Berel
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