New Perspectives on Kristallnacht 17/e

Steven J. Ross is a professor of history at USC. Ross received his BA from Columbia University, a bachelor of philosophy from Oxford University, and a PhD from Princeton University. Ross has written extensively in the areas of working-class history, social history, film history, and political history. Ross's most recent book, Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America (Bloomsbury Press), was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History for 2018 and has been featured on the Los Angeles Times best-seller list. Ross directs the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life. He is also the cofounder and former codirector of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities at USC.

FOREWORD EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: Ulrich Baumann and Francois Guesnet Kristallnacht-Pogrom-State Terror: A Terminological Reflection CHAPTER 2: "Worse Than Vandals." The Mass Destruction of Jewish Homes and Jewish Responses during the 1938 Pogrom, by Wolf Gruner CHAPTER 3: A Question of Gender! Spaces of Violence and Reactions to Kristallnacht in Jewish-Gentile Families, by Maximilian Strnad CHAPTER 4: Social Relations and Bystander Responses to Violence: Kristallnacht November 1938, by Mary Fulbrook CHAPTER 5: A Scream, Then Silence. Kristallnacht and the American Journalists in Nazi Germany: The "Night of Broken Glass" as an Unwanted Transnational Media Event, by Norman Domeier CHAPTER 6: Journalism as a Weapon: Jewish Journalists from Warsaw and the Production of Knowledge during Hitler's Rise to Power in 1933 and the November Pogroms in 1938, by Anne-Christin Klotz CHAPTER 7: What Did Soviet Jews Make of Kristallnacht? The Nazi Threat in the Soviet Press, by Jeffrey Koerber CHAPTER 8: The Absence of "Kristallnacht" and Its Aftermath in BBC German-language Broadcasts during 1938-1939, by Stephanie Seul CHAPTER 9: Orthodox Jewish Reflective Responses to Kristallnacht, by Gershon Greenberg CHAPTER 10: 1938: American Jews Respond to a Very Bad Year, by Hasia Diner CHAPTER 11: The Ambiguous Legacy of Kristallnacht: Nazis, Jewish Resistors, and Anti-Semitism in Los Angeles, by Steven J. Ross CHAPTER 12: Jewish Anti-Fascism? "Kristallnacht" Remembrance in the GDR between Propaganda and Jewish Self-Assertion, by Alexander Walther CHAPTER 13: "Kristallnacht in Tel Aviv": Nazi Associations in the Contemporary Israeli Socio-Political Debate, by Liat Steir-Livny CHAPTER 14: The Kristallnacht Paradigm in Narratives by Survivors of the Rwandan and Rohingya Genocides, by Nathalie Segeral CHAPTER 15: The Long Shadow of the "Kristallnacht" on the "Gujarat Pogrom" in India? A Comparative Analysis, by Baijayanti Roy ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS ABOUT THE USC CASDEN INSTITUTE