Voices and Views
A History of the Holocaust
Published on 7. April 2005
Book
Hardback
704 pages
978-0-9700602-0-4 (ISBN)
Description
In Voices & Views Deborah Dwork has brought together many of the most important figures in Jewish scholarship to produce a definitive collection of essays, documents, and images on the Holocaust. Beginning with a brief survey of historical anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism, the volume includes chapters such as ""Jews, Gentiles, and Germans,"" ""World War I and the Interwar Period,"" ""The National Socialist Regime,"" ""Refugee Policy,"" one chapter each on gentile and Jewish life under German occupation, ""The Machinery of Death and the Murderers,"" one chapter each on rescue and rescuers, and a final chapter, ""After the Holocaust."" Each of these chapters offers an unparalleled selection of powerful images (many of them rare), primary documents - Richard Wagner on Judaism in music, for example, and ""The Einsatzgruppen Reports: Selections from the Dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' Campaign against the Jews in Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union July 1941-January 1943"" - and writings by major figures such as Primo Levi, David Wyman, Saul Friedlander, and others. Sponsored by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, Voices & Views is an educational resource for teaching about the Holocaust that also speaks to the cataclysm's deeper questions: What can we teach the young about the Holocaust that can strengthen their motale, morals, and wisdom, and thus provide tools to live in a scarred universe? What sparks of light can be sifted from the ashes of the crematoria? While not avoiding the grim horrors of the Holocaust, the editors of this volume felt it was important to focus on rescuers - the Righteous - to a greater degree than was their proportional impact during the war because of their moral significance. Voices & Views is thus a comprehensive reference work but also a volume with an inspirational purpose.
Reviews / Votes
Events happen because they are possible. If they are possible once they are possible again. In that sense the Holocaust is not unprecedented, but a warning for the future. - Yehuda BauerMore details
Edition
illustrated Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
173 b/w photographs, 9 illustrations, 8 tables, 6 maps
Weight
2070 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9700602-0-4 (9780970060204)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Deborah Dwork is the Rose Professor of Holocaust History at Clark University. She is the author of Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe and co-author with Robert Jan van Pelt of Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present.
Content
Maps and Charts; Preface - Paul Goldberger; Dedication - Rabbi Harold Schulweis; Acknowledgements - Deborah Dwork and Stanlee J. Stahl; Introduction - Deborah Dwork; Chapter I: Jews, Gentiles, and Germans; Christian Anti-Semitism and Secular Anti-Semitism - William Nicholls; Antisemitism - Robert S. Wistrich; Judaism in Music - Richard Wagner; What is German? - Richard Wagner; Chapter II: World War I and the Inter-War Period; A Wilderness Called Peace - Eugen Weber; Germany's Turn to the East - Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt; The Old Order - Eugen Diesel; The Trauma of Military Defeat and Economic Ruin 1919-23 - Klaus P. Fischer; Poland - Ezra Mendelsohn; Jewish Life Between the Wars - Ezra Mendelsohn; Believe, Obey, Fight - Tracy H. Koon; Chapter III: The National Socialist Regime; On the History of the Concentration Camps - Wolfgang Sofsky; Nazi Policy Against the Jews - William Carr; The November Pogrom and Its Aftermath - Marion A. Kaplan; The Third Reich - Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt; Chapter IV: Refugee Policy; Roosevelt's New Deal Humanitarianism - Henry L. Feingold; The Abandonment of the Jews - David S. Wyman; Sealing the Escape Routes - Bernard Wasserstein; Rescue Efforts - Michael R. Marrus; Chapter V: Gentile Life Under German Occupation; The Black Book of Poland - The Polish Ministry of Information; France Under German Occupation - Margaret Collins Weitz; Under State Protection - Leni Yahil; Chapter VI: Jewish Life Under German Occupation; At Home and In Secret - Deborah Dwork; The Jewish Councils - Isaiah Trunk; Scroll of Agony - Chaim A. Kaplan; Behind the Walls - Janina Bauman; Days of Battle - Yisrael Gutman; Chapter VII: The Machinery of Death and the Murderers; Der Untermensch - Reichsfuhrer-SS, SS-Hauptamt; The Einsatzgruppen Reports - Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski, and Shmuel Spector, eds.; Initiation to Mass Murder: The Jozefow Massacre - Christopher R. Browning; Origins of the Killing Centers - Raul Hilberg; Belzec and Treblinka - Saul Friedlander; The Holocaust at Auschwitz - Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt; Gypsies - (Yehuda Bauer); On the Bottom - (Primo Levi); Chapter VIII: Rescue; Into Hiding - Deborah Dwork; Wallenberg's Last Acts, His Unique Achievement - Per Anger; The Rescue of Jews in the Italian Zone of Occupied Croatia - Daniel Carpi; The Jewish Question - Guenter Lewy; Consenting Elites, Threatened Elites - Saul Friedlander; Help--1940-1944 - Philip P. Hallie; Chapter IX: The Rescuers; Rescue Attempts Out of Lithuania - Yehuda Bauer; From Self-Preservation to Rescue - Nechama Tec; Becoming a Rescuer: Overcoming Social Psychological and Physical Barriers - Nechama Tec; Helpers, Gainers, and Onlookers - Raul Hilberg; Refugees - Miep Gies; Magda Trocme - Carol Rittner and R.S.M. Sondra Myers; Chapter X: After the Holocaust; Jews of the Surviving Remnant - Mark Wyman; The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi; The Netherlands - Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt; On the Place of the Holocaust in History - Yehuda Bauer.