Holocaust Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation

Name: Holocaust Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation
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ISBN: 9780618214624

ISBN-10: 0618214623

ISBN-13: 9780618214624

Edition: 3rd 2003

Authors: Donald L. Niewyk

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This volume in the Problems in European Civilization Series features a collection of secondary-source essays focusing on aspects of the Holocaust. The essays in this book debate the origins of the Holocaust, the motivations of the killers, the experience of the victims, and the various possibilities for intervention or rescue. The proven series format features key scholarship, chapter and essay introductions, and extensive, up-to-date suggestions for further reading. The selections are edited for both content and length, making this single volume a convenient alternative to course packets or multiple monographs.

Book details

List price: $84.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: CENGAGE Learning
Publication date: 4/19/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Donald L. Niewyk is professor of history at Southern Methodist University and is the author of four books, including Fresh Wounds: Early Narratives of Holocaust Survival.Francis R. Nicosia is professor of history at Saint Michael's College and is the author or editor of several books on the Holocaust and the Third Reich, including The Third Reich and the Palestine Question.



Chronology of Events


Glossary Reference Map: Poland, 19391945, with Locations of Concentration and Extermination Camps Table


Estimated Jewish Deaths in the Holocaust Table


Estimated Gypsy Deaths in the Holocaust


Introduction


Origins of the Holocaust


Anti-Semitism Through the Ages


Hitler's Decisive Role


The Opening Act of


The Motivations of the Killers


The Nazi Doctors


Ordinary Men


Hitler's


The Holocaust Experience


Helpless Victims Terrence


The Will to Survive


Women's Survival Skills Lawrence


Gendered Suffering?


The Problem of Jewish Resistance


Two Thousand Years of Jewish Appeasement


Forms of Jewish Resistance


Why the Jewish Councils Cooperated


Bystander Reactions


The Poles Helped Persecute the Jews


The Poles Were Fellow


Western Europeans and the


The Altruistric Personality


Possibilities of Rescue


The Myth of Rescue Michael Phayer, The Silence of Pope Pius


Walter Laqueur, The Failure to Comprehend Suggestions for Additional Reading