Focused on "The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide", this text brings together the work of nearly 200 scholars from more than 30 countries and features scholarship across a range of disciplines, amounting to an extensive reassessment of the Holocaust. In addition to its international scope, the project emphasizes that varied disciplinary perspectives are needed to analyze and to check the genocidal forces that have made the 20th century so deadly. Historians and ethicists, psychologists and literary scholars, political scientists and theologians, sociologists and philosophers - all of these, and more, bring their expertise to bear on the Holocaust and genocide. Their contributions show the discoveries being made and the distinctive approaches that are being developed in the study of genocide, focusing both on archival and oral evidence, and on the religious and cultural representation of the Holocaust.