Holocaust Politics
Title | Holocaust Politics PDF eBook |
Author | John K. Roth |
Publisher | Westminster John Knox Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780664221737 |
A professor of philosphy whose short-lived appointment to Director of Advanced Studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum sparked controversy critiques holocaust politics, divisions between holocaust scholars, and disputes over commemorative projects.
Post-Holocaust Politics
Title | Post-Holocaust Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Arieh J. Kochavi |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2003-01-14 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0807875090 |
Between 1945 and 1948, more than a quarter of a million Jews fled countries in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and began filling hastily erected displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria. As one of the victorious Allies, Britain had to help find a solution for the vast majority of these refugees who refused repatriation. Drawing on extensive research in British, American, and Israeli archives, Arieh Kochavi presents a comprehensive analysis of British policy toward Jewish displaced persons and reveals the crucial role the United States played in undermining that policy. Kochavi argues that political concerns--not human considerations--determined British policy regarding the refugees. Anxious to secure its interests in the Middle East, Britain feared its relations with Arab nations would suffer if it appeared to be too lax in thwarting Zionist efforts to bring Jewish Holocaust survivors to Palestine. In the United States, however, the American Jewish community was able to influence presidential policy by making its vote hinge on a solution to the displaced persons problem. Setting his analysis against the backdrop of the escalating Cold War, Kochavi reveals how, ironically, the Kremlin as well as the White House came to support the Zionists' goals, albeit for entirely different reasons.
The Politics of Genocide
Title | The Politics of Genocide PDF eBook |
Author | Randolph L. Braham |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
ISBN | 9780814326916 |
The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary, Condensed Edition is an abbreviated version of the classic work first published in 1981 and revised and expanded in 1994. It includes a new historical overview, and retains and sharpens its focus on the persecution of the Jews. Through a meticulous use of Hungarian and many other sources, the book explains in a rational and empirical context the historical, political, communal, and socioeconomic factors that contributed to the unfolding of this tragedy at a time when the leaders of the world, including the national and Jewish leaders of Hungary, were already familiar with the secrets of Auschwitz. The Politics of Genocide is the most eloquent and comprehensive study ever produced of the Holocaust in Hungary. In this condensed edition, Randolph L. Braham includes the most important revisions of the 1994 second edition as well as new material published since then. Scholars of Holocaust, Slavic, and East-Central European studies will find this volume indispensable.
Polish Film and the Holocaust
Title | Polish Film and the Holocaust PDF eBook |
Author | Marek Haltof |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0857453572 |
During World War II Poland lost more than six million people, including about three million Polish Jews who perished in the ghettos and extermination camps built by Nazi Germany in occupied Polish territories. This book is the first to address the representation of the Holocaust in Polish film and does so through a detailed treatment of several films, which the author frames in relation to the political, ideological, and cultural contexts of the times in which they were created. Following the chronological development of Polish Holocaust films, the book begins with two early classics: Wanda Jakubowska’s The Last Stage (1948) and Aleksander Ford’s Border Street (1949), and next explores the Polish School period, represented by Andrzej Wajda’s A Generation (1955) and Andrzej Munk’s The Passenger (1963). Between 1965 and 1980 there was an “organized silence” regarding sensitive Polish-Jewish relations resulting in only a few relevant films until the return of democracy in 1989 when an increasing number were made, among them Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Decalogue 8 (1988), Andrzej Wajda’s Korczak (1990), Jan Jakub Kolski’s Keep Away from the Window (2000), and Roman Polański’s The Pianist (2002). An important contribution to film studies, this book has wider relevance in addressing the issue of Poland’s national memory.
Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood
Title | Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood PDF eBook |
Author | Idith Zertal |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2005-07-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781139446624 |
The ghost of the Holocaust is ever present in Israel, in the lives and nightmares of the survivors and in the absence of the victims. In this compelling and disturbing analysis, Idith Zertal, a leading member of the new generation of revisionist historians in Israel, considers the ways Israel has used the memory of the Holocaust to define and legitimize its existence and politics. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the author exposes the pivotal role of the Holocaust in Israel's public sphere, in its project of nation building, its politics of power and its perception of the conflict with the Palestinians. She argues that the centrality of the Holocaust has led to a culture of death and victimhood that permeates Israel's society and self-image. For the updated paperback edition of the book, Tony Judt, the world-renowned historian and political commentator, has contributed a foreword in which he writes of Zertal's courage, the originality of her work, and the 'unforgiving honesty with which she looks at the moral condition of her own country'.
Americans and the Holocaust
Title | Americans and the Holocaust PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Greene |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2021-11-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1978821689 |
This edited collection of more than one hundred primary sources from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s--including newspaper and magazine articles, popular culture materials, and government records--reveals how Americans debated their responsibility to respond to Nazism. It includes valuable resources for students and historians seeking to shed light on this dark era in world history.
The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age
Title | The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Levy |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781592132768 |
Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider examine the forms that collective memory take in the age of globalisation. They explore how the Holocaust has been remembered in Germany, Israel and the US over the past 50 years and demonstrate how this event has become detached from its precise context.