Holocaust Readings and Interpretations

Name: Holocaust Readings and Interpretations
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ISBN: 9780072448160

ISBN-10: 0072448164

ISBN-13: 9780072448160

Edition: 2001

Authors: Joseph R. Mitchell, Helen Buss Mitchell

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The Holocaust: Readings and Interpretations raises important questions related to the study of the Holocaust and offers potential answers to these questions through interpretive essays from the field's leading scholars, many with differing opinions and points of view. The book emphasizes the complexity of the subject, while it seeks to provide an understanding of an historical event that for many people still defies comprehension.Although the attempted annihilation of European Jews by Hitler's Third Reich occurred between 1933 and 1945, the roots of antisemitism are at least two millennia old. Each of the book's nine chapters raises relevant questions regarding the Holocaust: its historical…

Book details

List price: $29.69
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 568
Size: 9.00" wide x 6.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English

Joseph Mitchell came to New York City in 1929 from a small town in North Carolina. He was twenty-one years old. He worked as a reporter & feature writer--for "The World", "The Herald Tribune", & "The World Telegram"--for eight years, & then went to "The New Yorker", where he remained until his death in 1996.



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The Holocaust


Preface



Understanding the Holocaust The Holocaust: Unique or Universal?


Introduction



"Appropriating the Holocaust," Commentary (November 1982)




"Introduction," in Alan S. Rosenbaum, ed., Is the Holocaust Unique?: Perspectives on Comparative Genocide (Westview Press, 1998) The Holocaust: Explicable or Unfathomable? Introduction




"Is the Holocaust Explicable?" Rethinking the Holocaust,(Yale University Press, 2001) 1