Hardback
Publication Date: 01/08/2003
In authoritative, nonpolemical essays on some of the latest and most contentious issues surrounding the Holocaust, the contributors to this volume revisit some topics central to Holocaust studies, such as the stance of the papacy and the concern about the uses to which the meaning of the Holocaust has been put, while expanding research into less-examined areas such as propriety, sexuality, and proximity. Variously concerned with issues of guilt and victimization, the essays examine individuals like Pius XII and Romano Guardini and the institutions of organized religion as well as the roles of the Jewish Councils and the retributive judicial proceedings in Hungary. They reveal that victimization within the Holocaust experience is surprisingly open-ended, with Jewish women doubly victimized by their gender; postwar Germans viewing themselves as the epoch's greatest victims; Poles, whether Jewish or not, victimized beyond. others because of their proximity to the epicenter of the Holocaust; and German university students corrupted by ideological inculcation and racist propaganda. Though offering no "positive lessons" or comforting assurances, these essays add to the ongoing examinatio
- ISBN:
- 9780810119895
- 9780810119895
- Category:
- The Holocaust
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 01-08-2003
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 270
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x25mm
- Weight:
- 0.33kg
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