"Talking about the Holocaust has provided an international language for ethics, victimization, political claims, and constructions of collective identity. As part of a worldwide vocabulary, that language helps set the tenor of the era of globalization. This volume addresses mani…
Ca. 3,000-4,000 Jews were killed by local non-Jews and the German occupiers in Rovno in July-August 1941, in the course of "self-cleansing operations". 23,500 Jews (17,500 adults and 6,000 children) - all Jews who did not possess valid work permits - were killed by the Nazis on …
"A total re-assessment of the life of Adolf Eichmann that reveals his activities and notoriety amongst a global network of National Socialists following the collapse of the Third Reich, and permanently undermines Hannah Arendt's often-cited notion of the "banality of evil.""--
"This book is a first collection of reports from The Holocaust and the European Historical Culture, a research project which includes scholars from the universities in Lund, Stockholm and Uppsala in Sweden. The aim of the project, initiated in 2001, is to study the interpretatio…
The result of a research project conducted by Swedish scholars, this text examines interpretations and representations of the Holocaust in European societies, primarily focusing on the most recent decades. Using specific case studies, the articles in this anthology study how, wh…
The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts--first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets--by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale o…
"Thousands of people have been honored for saving Jews during the Holocaust--but not a single Arab. Did any Arabs save any Jews during the Holocaust? Seeking a hopeful response to the plague of Holocaust denial sweeping across the Arab and Muslim worlds, Robert Satloff set off o…
This title specifically addresses sexual violation of Jewish women during the Holocaust.
Biographical account of Adolf Eichmann, known as the engineer of death for his involvement with Hitler's regime during World War II. Also documents his escape, capture and punishment.
"This volume of original essays explores the memory of the Holocaust and the Jewish past in postcommunist Eastern Europe. Devoting space to every postcommunist country, the essays in Bringing the Dark Past to Light explore how the memory of the "dark pasts" of Eastern European n…
