{"product_id":"the-holocaust-isbn-9781405113991","title":"The Holocaust","description":"This interdisciplinary collection of primary and secondary readings encourages scholars and students to engage critically with current debates about the origins, implementation and postwar interpretation of the Holocaust. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eInterdisciplinary content encourages students to engage with philosophical, political, cultural and literary debate as well as historiographical issues.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntegrates oral histories and testimonies from both victims and perpetrators, including Jewish council leaders, victims of ghettos and camps, SS officials and German soldiers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSubsections can be used as the basis for oral or written exercises.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhole articles or substantial extracts are included wherever possible.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  List of Maps. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Simone Gigliotti and Berel Lang.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Preconditions: Nazism and the Turn from Anti-Judaism to Antisemitism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Anti-Semites: Bernard Lewis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 From Weimar to Hitler: Robert S. Wistrich.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Nation and Race: Adolf Hitler.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Nuremberg Law for the Protection of the German Blood and of the German Honour of 15 September 1935.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II A Racial Europe: Nazi Population and Resettlement Policy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Setting: Henry Friedlander.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Ghetto Formation: Raul Hilberg.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 From “Ethnic Cleansing” to Genocide to the “Final Solution”: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, 1939–1941: Christopher R. Browning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Some Thoughts on the Treatment of the Alien Population in the East: Heinrich Himmler.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III War and the Turn to Genocide.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The “Commissar Decree,” June 6, 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Affidavit of SS Grueppenfuehrer Otto Ohlendorf.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Operation Barbarossa as a War of Conquest and Annihilation: Jürgen Förster.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 From Mass Murder to the “Final Solution:” The Shooting of Jewish Civilians during the first months of the Eastern Campaign within the context of the Nazi Jewish Genocide: Peter Longerich.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Savage War: German Warfare and Moral Choices in World War II: Omer Bartov.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Whose \"Final Solution\"? Revisted Intentionalism and Functionalism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Hitler’s Reichstag Speech, January 30, 1939 : Adolf Hitler.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Minutes of the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16Intentions and the “Final Solution:” Berel Lang.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 A Controversy about the Historicization of National Socialism: Martin Broszat and Saul Friedlaender.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Justice Jackson’s Report to the President on Atrocities and War Crimes, June 6, 1945: Robert H. Jackson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Response and Testimony: At the Center of the Whirlwind\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Inside the Ghetto: Emmanuel Ringelblum.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Notebook H: Oskar Rosenfeld.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 The Second Winter: October 29, 1942--March 18, 1943: Herman Kruk.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Letters from Westerbork: Etty Hillesum.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Genocide and the Holocaust.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 UnitedNations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, December 9, 1948.\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Defining Genocide as a Sociological Concept: Helen Fein.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Is the Holocaust Simply Another Example of Genocide? Mark Levene.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Conceptual Blockages and Definitional Dilemmas in the “Racial Century:” Genocides of Indigenous Peoples and the Holocaust: A. Dirk Moses\u003c\/p\u003e  \"The book is very much what it promises, a reader designed to introduce the student to thinking about the Holocaust in analytical terms.\" \u003ci\u003eAustralian Jewish News \u003c!--end--\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The greatest attribute of \u003ci\u003eThe Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e is quite simply the work itself as a whole. Rather than a comprehensive history of the Holocaust told from the point of view of one scholar, Gigliotti and Lang present primary and secondary works that approach the subject from historical, ethical, philosophical, sociological, and legal viewpoints. As a result, the editors not only appeal to a wide audience, but they also encourage cooperation between many fields of study. Simone Gigliotti and Berel Lang's contribution should become a staple in undergraduate and graduate seminars on the Holocaust and genocide for years to come, so the next generation of scholars will not forget and will begin their own efforts to understand.\" \u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Simone Gigliotti and Berel Lang's book constitutes a valuable new contribution to the field.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEuropean History Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSimone Gigliotti\u003c\/b\u003e is a lecturer in the History Program at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and a Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Previously, she taught at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, and was a visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBerel Lang\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Humanities at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. His many books include \u003ci\u003eThe Future of the Holocaust: Between History and Memory\u003c\/i\u003e (1999) and \u003ci\u003eAct and Idea in the Nazi Genocide\u003c\/i\u003e (1990). His forthcoming book is Post-Holocaust: Interpretation, Misinterpretation, and the Claims of History.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003eThe Holocaust: A Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is an innovative interdisciplinary resource. Combining primary and secondary sources with editorial narrative, it enables scholars and students to engage critically with current debates about the origins, implementation, and postwar interpretation of the Holocaust.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eReader\u003c\/i\u003e is divided into six chronological sections and contains thematic subsections, each of which can be used by instructors as the basis for oral or written exercises. Oral histories and the testimonies of both victims and perpetrators – from Jewish council leaders, to ghetto and concentration camp victims, to SS officials and German soldiers – are integrated throughout, allowing scholars and students to see how underlying historical attitudes and policies evolved. Secondary sources are selected from the best recent literature on the Holocaust across a range of disciplines. Whole articles or substantial extracts are included wherever possible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990259089637,"sku":"NP9781405113991","price":143.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405113991.jpg?v=1761787098","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-holocaust-isbn-9781405113991","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}