The Nazi Holocaust is one of the most momentous events in human history. Yet, it remains on many levels a baffling and unfathomable mystery. By shunning simplistic 'explanations' Ronnie Landau has set out, in a clear, thought-provoking and enlightened fashion, to mediate betweeen this vast, often unapproachable subject and the reader who wrestles with its meaning. Locating the Holocaust within a number of different contexts - Jewish history, German history, genocide in the modern age, the larger story of human bigotry and the triumph of ideology over conscience - Landau penetrates to the very heart of its moral and historical significance. Deeply concerned lest the Holocaust, as a 'unique' phenomenon, be cordoned off from the rest of human history and ghettoized within the highly charged realm of 'Jewish experience', he is at pains to show that transmitting understanding of the Holocaust is about connecting with all humanity.Intended both for the general reader and for students and academics (especially in history, psychology, literature and the humanities), this work is an important breakthrough in the struggle to perpetuate the memory of a tragedy which the world is all too ready to forget.
Author(s): Ronnie S. Landau
Edition: 3rd Edition
Publisher: I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury Publishing
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 425
Tags: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945): Moral And Ethical Aspects, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945): Psychological Aspects
Cover......Page 1
Author bio......Page 2
Author......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Author’s Preface to the Third Edition......Page 10
Author’s Preface to the Second Edition......Page 16
Author’s Preface......Page 20
Additional Reading......Page 26
Half title......Page 28
Introduction......Page 30
1 The Historical, Educational and Moral Significance of the Holocaust......Page 32
Part 1 The Background and Context......Page 54
2 Survey of Jewish History: c.300 BC to c.1700......Page 56
3 The European Jew and the Modern World......Page 80
4 Nazism and Modern Germany: From National Unification to Hitler’s Accession to Power......Page 109
Part 2 The Holocaust: a History......Page 150
5 Nazi Germany, 1933-8: Anti-Jewish Policy and Legislation......Page 152
6 Nazi Europe, 1938-41: From Kristallnacht to Ghettoization in the East......Page 173
7 The Holocaust, 1941-5: From Dehumanization to Annihilation......Page 203
Part 3 Themes, Issues and Protagonists......Page 226
8 Perpetrators, Victims and Bystanders......Page 228
9 The Jewish Question: Public Opinion in Nazi Germany......Page 271
10 The Aftermath and Impact of the Holocaust......Page 294
Notes......Page 320
Bibliography......Page 332
Appendix A Euphemisms of Death......Page 346
Appendix B Yossel Rakover’s Appeal to God......Page 348
Appendix C The Jewish Question – Excerpts from Hitler’s Writings......Page 357
Appendix D The Programme of the National-Socialist German Workers’ Party......Page 366
Appendix E The Nuremberg Laws......Page 370
Appendix F German Foreign Ministry Memorandum......Page 373
Appendix G Numbers of Jews Murdered in Europe......Page 377
Chronology of the Holocaust (1933 – 45)......Page 378
Glossary of Basic Terms......Page 391
Principal Characters......Page 396
Index......Page 403
Back cover......Page 425
