An intimate history of the Holocaust, drawn from the final days of a Jewish family in Munich Postcards to Hitler tells the story of a Jewish family in Munich living as close neighbors to the demagogue who becomes the Nazi Fuehrer--Adolf Hitler. In a story passionately told by one of their descendants, the narrative begins as Benno Neuburger, a ......
A Family of Israeli Holocaust Testimonies from the Cracow Ghetto Resista
Testimonial Montage: A Family of Israeli Holocaust Testimonies from the Cracow Ghetto Resistance explores interconnected testimonies of four Holocaust survivors who were members of the Akiva youth group in Cracow, Poland, who participated in the ghetto resistance. Drawing on literary and photographic discourse, Jelen extracts the contours of ......
Representations of Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, and the Holocaust in C
A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Haunted Laughter addresses whether it is appropriate to use comedy as a literary form to depict Adolf Hitler, The Third Reich, and the Holocaust. Guided by existing theories of comedy and memory and through a comprehensive examination of comedic film and television productions, from the United ......
Investigating Babyn Yar: Shadows from the Valley of Death pieces together the story of the destruction of Kyiv's Jews using history's shattered fragments. Martin Dean traces their journey out of the city, using discarded clothing and distinctive terrain as a trail of breadcrumbs to identify the killing site in the ravine. Shadowy figures in ......
This collection of mostly unpublished first-person accounts documents the flight and exile of German Jews from Nazi Germany to the USA. The thematic and biographical introductions by the editors, clear geographic framework, and well-defined time frame make this volume helpful ...
Bonhoeffer's New Beginning investigates Dietrich Bonhoeffer's life-affirming answer to how we begin again after devastation. Combining scholarly rigor and existential honesty, DeCort argues that Bonhoeffer offers an ethical and moral vision of radical hope vis-a-vis the perceived absence of God in the face of devastation.
In Preaching to Nazi Germany, William Skiles argues that clergy expressed various messages that aimed to limit Nazi interference in church affairs and at times even to undermine the Nazi state and its leaders and policies.
Trauma, Atrocity, and Representation in Literature and Culture
In this book, scholars with expertise in various national literatures and cultures explore how the Holocaust has been represented in novels, memoirs, film, television, and architecture. This book provides a unique vantage point for the scholar and student to compare how national context impacts representations of the Holocaust.
This book describes the pogroms of Polish Jews by their Polish neighbors in some dozen small towns and villages in Eastern Poland in the years 1941-42. The book draws on eyewitness testimony by surviving victims, bystanders, and perpetrators themselves to describe the horrific events that occurred throughout the region.
This book collects narratives of Bulgarian Jews who survived the Holocaust. Through eye-witness testimonies, archival documents, photographs, and researchers' investigations, the stories counter official accounts and corroborate war crimes.
The informal cooperation and collaboration of Christians with the Jewish underground emerges as a key element in this new translation of Alter Kleiman's memoir Holocaust Survival in Antwerp: On Foreign Soil.
The Claims Conference and Holocaust Survivors, 1951-1964
This book examines the early years of the Claims Conference, the organization which lobbies for and distributes reparations to Holocaust survivors, and its role as a nongovernmental actor promoting reparative justice in global politics.
This book illuminates the troubled history of how Italian and foreign Jews in an internment camp were deported to Auschwitz in full view of a bishop who supposedly was protecting them. Elsewhere brave farmers hid local Jews in caves and farms from the Fascist/Nazi hunters.
This book engages with cultural memory in literature and other media of the second and third generations of Holocaust survivors who are confronted with language loss, language acquisition and multiple issues of translation of inherited and received cultural memory.
Strategies of Self-Preservation and Inter-Generational Encounter with Na
A narrative analysis of memoirs of six holocaust survivors from a single family, this book examines strategies of self-preservation and resilience in young people exposed to persecution at different ages and life stages. It argues that holocaust-era stories can enhance understanding of today's child refugees.
Representations of Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, and the Holocaust in C
Haunted Laughter is a comprehensive study of film productions that have used comedy to represent Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, and the Holocaust. Author Jonathan Friedman proposes a model and a set of criteria to evaluate the effective use of comedy as a means of representation.
This book explores new media and new stories in Holocaust public memory as powerful agents against a rising tide of global intolerance. Arguing that gender is often absent in traditional medial forms of public memory, Costello illustrates how new forms of memorialization shift our orientation toward others and our engagement with the past.
This collection of mostly unpublished first-person accounts documents the flight and exile of German Jews from Nazi Germany to the USA. The thematic and biographical introductions by the editors, clear geographic framework, and well-defined time frame make this volume helpful to those new to the subject.