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The Holocaust: Origins, Implementation, Aftermath book cover

2nd Edition

The Holocaust Origins, Implementation, Aftermath

Edited By Omer Bartov Copyright 2015
444 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

444 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Containing an almost entirely new selection of texts, this second edition of The Holocaust: Origins, Implementation, Aftermath presents a critical and important study of the Holocaust. Many of the pieces challenge conventional analyses and preconceived notions about the Holocaust, whether regarding genocidal precedents and the centrality of antisemitism, the relationship between ideological... Read more

List of maps

List of figures

Series editor’s preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

OMER BARTOV

Part I

Origins: racism and antisemitism

  1. "One of these races has got to go…" Colonialism and Genocide

    2. Cathie Carmichael (Genocide before the Holocaust, Yale UP, 2009, 56-70)

  2. Judeophobia and the Nazi Identity

    3. Philippe Burrin (Nazi Anti-Semitism, The New Press, 2005, 39-63)

  3. Defining "(Un)Wanted Population Addition": Anthropology, Racist Ideology, and Mass Murder in the Occupied East

    4. Isabel Heinemann (Racial Science in Hitler’s New Europe, 1938-1945, ed. Anton Weiss-Wendt, et al., University of Nebraska Press, 2013, 35-59)

    Part II

    Implementation: normalizing genocide

  4. Camps and Ghettos – Forced Labor in the Reich Gau Wartheland, 1939-1944

    5. Wolf Gruner (Jewish Forced Labor Under the Nazis, Cambridge UP, 2006, 177-195)

  5. The Holocaust and the concentration camps

    6. Dieter Pohl (Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany, ed. Jane Caplan et al., Routledge, 2010, 149-166)

  6. Decision-making in the "Final Solution"

    7. Peter Longerich (Holocaust, Oxford UP, 2010, 422-435)

  7. "Once again I’ve got to play general to the Jews": from the war diary of Blutordensträger Felix Landau

    8. Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen and Volker Riess (Simon&Schuster, as in 1st ed., 187-203)

  8. Keeping calm and weathering the storm: Jewish women’s responses to daily life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939

    9. Marion Kaplan (Women in the Holocaust, ed. D. Ofer, et al., Yale UP, 1998, 39-54)

  9. "Give Me Your Children"

    10. Gordon J. Horwitz (Ghettostadt, Harvard UP, 2008, 192-231)

  10. Ghetto diary

    11. Janusz Korczak (Yale UP, 2003, 100-115)

  11. "And it was something we didn’t talk about": Rape of Jewish Women during the Holocaust

    12. Helene J. Sinnreich (Holocaust Studies 14/2, 2008, 1-22)

  12. Between sanity and insanity: spheres of everyday life in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando

    13.

    Gideon Greif (Gray Zones, ed. J. Petropoulos, et al., Berghahn Books, 2005, 37-60)

    Part III

    Aftermath: testimony, justice, and continuity

  13. Wartime Lies and Other Testimonies: Jewish-Christian Relations in Buczacz, 1939-1944

    14. Omer Bartov (East European Politics and Societies 25/3 2011, 486-511)

  14. Khurbn Forshung – Jewish Historical Commissions in Europe, 1943–1949

    15. Laura Jockusch (Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook 6, 2007, 441-473)

  15. Semantics of Extermination: The Use of the New Term of Genocide in the Nuremberg Trials and the Genesis of a Master Narrative

    16. Alexa Stiller (Reassessing the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, ed. Kim C. Priemel et al., Berghahn Books, 2012, 104-133)

  16. Theorizing Destruction: Reflections on the State of Comparative Genocide Theory

Maureen S. Hiebert (Genocide Studies and Prevention 3/3 2008, 309-339)

Appendices

  1. Geographical maps

  2. Chronology of events

Index

Biography

Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of History and German Studies at Brown University and has written on the Holocaust, Nazi Germany and modern genocide. His books include Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (2007), Germany's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories (2003) and Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide and Modern Identity (2000).

"In this sophisticated anthology, Omer Bartov has assembled an outstanding sampling of research literature illustrating some of the most fruitful new directions in studying the Holocaust that have emerged during the last decade. These academic writings are supplemented with important primary sources illustrating many of the problems of interpretation with which contemporary scholars are grappling. The Holocaust offers students a fine introduction to a complex subject."

David Engel, New York University, USA

"…outstanding. Professor Bartov has selected instructive, clearly written articles of the highest quality by leading scholars in Third Reich and Holocaust Studies that deftly combine historiography, narrative and argument. This volume will engage university students and generate important discussions."

Paul E. Kerry, Brigham Young University, USA

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