Holocaust category: 1392 books
The Sense of Semblance
Philosophical Analyses of Holocaust Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
The Sense of Semblance is the first book to incorporate contemporary analytic philosophy in interpretations of art and architecture, literature, and film about the Holocaust. The book’s principal aim is to move beyond the familiar debates surrounding postmodernism by demonstrating the usefulness...
Children of the Holocaust
Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors by Helen Epstein (123,000 words; with a 30th anniversary preface by the author)
A blend of memoir, reportage and oral history, Children of the Holocaust was the first book to examine the inter-generational transmission...
Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death
A Holocaust Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2004
"This is a beautifully written, insightful chronicle of a young girl's Holocaust survival. Though very private and personal, it nevertheless captures the common torments of children living through this disastrous civilizational breakdown.
What makes this book unique is that the author...
The Holocaust
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
n June 1944, Freda Wineman and her family arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi concentration and death camp. After a cursory look from an SS doctor, Freda's life was spared and her mother was sent to the gas chambers. Freda only survived because the Allies won the war--the Nazis ultimately...
I Choose Life
Two Linked Stories of Holocaust Survival and Rebirth
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
I Choose Life is the true, first person account of two Jewish youths, Sol and Goldie, who survived Nazi concentration camps and transcended despair by choosing life. The book title derives from a harrowing encounter between Sol and the Commandant in Auschwitz. The Nazi cruelly forced Sol to choose...
by Imre Kertész
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Hungarian Imre Kertész was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for “writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.” His conversation with literary historian Thomas Cooper that is presented here speaks specifically to this...
From Poland to Brooklyn
The Lives of My Grandparents, <Br>Two Holocaust Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Written by the grandson of two Holocaust survivors, From Poland to Brooklyn provides a new and insightful analysis of the Holocaust. The book includes thought-provoking quotations from law professors, historians, civil libertarians, and Holocaust survivors.
My grandparents, Leon and Cecilie...
This is Home Now
Kentucky's Holocaust Survivors Speak
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
The term "Holocaust survivors" is often associated with Jewish communities in New York City or along Florida's Gold Coast. Traditionally, tales of America's Holocaust survivors, in both individual and cultural histories, have focused on places where people fleeing from Nazi atrocities congregated...
Ethics, Art, and Representations of the Holocaust
Essays in Honor of Berel Lang
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
The American-Jewish philosopher Berel Lang has left an indelible impression on an unusually broad range of fields that few scholars can rival. From his earliest innovations in philosophy and meta-philosophy, to his ground-breaking work on representation, historical writing, and art after Auschwitz,...
Holocaust Literature
A History and Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
What is Holocaust literature? When does it begin and how is it changing? Is there an essential core that consists of diaries, eyewitness accounts of the concentration camps, and tales of individual survival? Is it the same everywhere: West and East, in Australia as in the Americas, in poetry as in...
Germany's War and the Holocaust
Disputed Histories
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
"While attempts to come to terms with past catastrophe... can help prevent its recurrence, they may also provide arguments for... actions against the real or imagined perpetrators of previous disasters. The confrontation with... catastrophe can help us understand the roots and nature of this century's...
The Arabs and the Holocaust
The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
An unprecedented and judicious examination of what the Holocaust means—and doesn't mean—in the Arab world, one of the most explosive subjects of our time
There is no more inflammatory topic than the Arabs and the Holocaust—the phrase alone can occasion outrage. The terrain is dense with...
by D. D. Guttenplan
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2002
The account of a trial in which the very meaning of the Holocaust was put on the stand.
D. D. Guttenplan's The Holocaust on Trial is a bristling courtroom drama where the meaning of history is questioned. The plaintiff is British author David Irving, one of the world's preeminent military historians...
Holocaust Survivors in Canada
Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947-1955
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
In the decade after the Second World War, 35,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution and their dependants arrived in Canada. This was a watershed moment in Canadian Jewish history. The unprecedented scale of the relief effort required for the survivors, compounded by their unique social, psychological,...