ISBN:
9781138579606
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 353 Seiten
Year of publication:
2019
Series Statement:
Variorum collected studies series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Katz, Steven T., 1944 - Holocaust studies
DDC:
940.53/18072
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Study and teaching
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
;
Judenvernichtung
;
Judenverfolgung
;
Judenvernichtung
;
Geschichte 1933-1945
Abstract:
On the Holocaust and comparative history + update -- Mass death under communist rule and the limits of otherness + update -- Auschwitz and the Gulag : discontinuities and dissimilarities + update -- Children in Auschwitz and the Gulag + update -- On the definition of genocide and the issue of uniqueness + update -- Exploring the Holocaust and comparative history + update -- Extermination trumps production + update -- The murder of Jewish children during the Holocaust + update -- Thoughts on the intersection of rape and Rassenschande + update -- History and Halakha + update -- Exploring the concept of Kol Yisrael Arevim zeh la'zeh + update -- Thinking about Jewish resistance during the Holocaust + update -- Elie Wiesel : the man and his legacy + update -- The issue of confirmation and disconfirmation in Jewish thought + update -- Jewish theologians respond to the Holocaust + update.
Abstract:
"The great majority of Holocaust scholarship concentrates heavily, if not almost completely, on the Final Solution from the German side. The distinctive feature of this book, both individually and as a collection, is its concentration on the Holocaust from a Judeo-centric point of view. The present essays make a unique contribution by exploring issues such as: the effect of events specifically on Jewish women and children; the character of the Nazi policy of slave labor in as much as this essential program resulted in different treatment with regard to Jews as compared to other workers; how the destruction of European Jewry has been responded to by Jewish thinkers; and how Jewish values, such as the well-known principle that 'all Jews are responsible for each other,' were exemplified and lived out during the war. The collection also includes an essay on Elie Wiesel, and another that explores the much discussed, very controversial issue of Jewish resistance, as well as several essays on philosophical and comparative issues raised by the Shoah"--
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