Rethinking the Holocaust
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Rethinking the Holocaust

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Rethinking the Holocaust

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Yehuda Bauer, one of the world’s premier historians of the Holocaust, here presents an insightful overview and reconsideration of its history and meaning. Drawing on research he and other historians have done in recent years, he offers fresh opinions on such basic issues as how to define and explain the Holocaust; whether it can be compared with other genocides; how Jews reacted to the murder campaign against them; and what the relationship is between the Holocaust and the establishment of Israel.

The Holocaust says something terribly important about humanity, says Bauer. He analyzes explanations of the Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman, Jeffrey Herf, Goetz Aly, Daniel Goldhagen, John Weiss, and Saul Friedländer and then offers his own interpretation of how the Holocaust could occur. Providing fascinating narratives as examples, he deals with reactions of Jewish men and women during the Holocaust and tells of several attempts at rescue operations. He also explores Jewish theology of the Holocaust, arguing that our view of the Holocaust should not be clouded by mysticism: it was an action by humans against other humans and is therefore an explicable event that we can prevent from recurring.

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Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
9780300148077
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Holocaust History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter One: What Was the Holocaust?
  5. Chapter Two: Is the Holocaust Explicable?
  6. Chapter Three: Comparisons with Other Genocides
  7. Chapter Four: Overall Interpretations: Zygmunt Bauman, Jeffrey Herf, Goetz Aly
  8. Chapter Five: Overall Interpretations: Daniel J. Goldhagen, John Weiss, Saul Friedlander
  9. Chapter Six: Jewish Resistance—Myth or Reality?
  10. Chapter Seven Unarmed Resistance and Other Responses
  11. Chapter Eight: The Problem orGender: The Case of Gisi Fleischmann
  12. Chapter Nine: Theology, or God the Surgeon
  13. Chapter Ten: Rescue Attempts: The Case of the Auschwitz Protocols
  14. Chapter Eleven: From the Holocaust to the State of Israel
  15. Appendix: Speech to the Bundestag
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index