Goda Jewish Histories of the Holocaust

New Transnational Approaches
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-442-7
Verlag: Berghahn
Format: PDF
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Reihe: Making Sense of History

For many years, histories of the Holocaust focused on its perpetrators, and only recently have more scholars begun to consider in detail the experiences of victims and survivors, as well as the documents they left behind. This volume contains new research from internationally established scholars. It provides an introduction to and overview of Jewish narratives of the Holocaust. The essays include new considerations of sources ranging from diaries and oral testimony to the hidden Oyneg Shabbes archive of the Warsaw Ghetto; arguments regarding Jewish narratives and how they fit into the larger fields of Holocaust and Genocide studies; and new assessments of Jewish responses to mass murder ranging from ghetto leadership to resistance and memory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goda, Norman J.W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Moderne & Gegenwart
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Antisemitismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Norman J.W. Goda

PART I: THEORETICAL OVERVIEWS

Chapter 1. The Jewish Dimension of the Holocaust in Dire Straits? Current Challenges of Interpretation and Scope

Dan Michman

Chapter 2. The Holocaust as Regional History: Explaining the Bloodlands

Timothy Snyder

PART II: NEW APPROACHES TO JEWISH LEADERSHIP

Chapter 3. An Overwhelming Presence: Reflections on Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski and His Place in Our Understanding of the Lódz Ghetto

Gordon Horwitz

Chapter 4. Similarity and Differences: A Comparative Study between the Ghettos in Bialystok and Kielce

Sara Bender

PART III: DOCUMENTATION, TESTIMONY, AND EXPERIENCE

Chapter 5. Diaries, Testimony, and Jewish Histories of the Holocaust

Alexandra Garbarini

Chapter 6. The Voice of Your Brother's Blood: Biography of the Town of Buczacz

Omer Bartov

Chapter 7. "If He Knows How to Make a Child": Memories of Birth and Baby-Killing in Jewish Testimony Narratives

Sara Horowitz

Chapter 8. "Why Didn't They Mow Us Down Right Away?" The Death March Experience in Survivors' Testimonies and Memoirs

Daniel Blatman

PART IV: RETHINKING SELF-HELP AND RESISTANCE

Chapter 9. Documenting Catastrophe: The Ringelblum Archive and the Warsaw Ghetto

Samuel Kassow

Chapter 10. Integrating Self-Help into the Narrative of Survival in Western Europe

Bob Moore

Chapter 11. Jewish Communists in France During World War II: Resistance and Identity

Renée Poznanski

Chapter 12. Freedom and Death: The Jews and the Greek Andartiko

Steven Bowman

PART V: AFTERMATH: POLITICS, AESTHETICS, AND MEMORY

Chapter 13. Contested Memory: A Story of a Kapo In Auschwitz

Tuvia Friling

Chapter 14. Pressure Groups in the American and British Administrations During and After World War II

Arieh J. Kochavi

Chapter 15. Travelling to Germany and Poland: Toward a Textual Montage of Jewish Emotions After the Holocaust

Michael Meng

Selected Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Goda, Norman J.W.
Norman J.W. Goda is the Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida. His publications include Tomorrow the World: Hitler, Northwest Africa and the Path Towards America (1998); Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War (2007); and The Holocaust: Europe, the World, and the Jews (2013).