Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Xiii: The Fate of European Jews, 1939 - Continuity Or Contingency?

Klappentext Was the Holocaust a natural product of a long German history of Anti-Semitism? Or were the Nazi policies simply a wild mutation of history! not necessarily connected to the past? Or does the truth lie somewhere in between? This latest volume in the acclaimed Studies in Contemporary Jewry series! edited by internationally known scholars at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem! presents essays on the origins of the Holocaust. The works in this volume are diverse in scope and opinion! ranging from general philosophical discourses to detailed analyses of specific events! and often reflecting the divergent ideologies and methods of the contributors. But each adds to the whole! and the result is a fascinating panorama that is sure to be indispensable to all students and scholars of the subject. Zusammenfassung This volume of the annual 'Studies in Contemporary Jewry' series presents essays on the origins of the Holocaust. 'The Fate of the European Jews', 1933-1945 provides multiple perspectives on the question of whether the Holocaust can best be explained as an inevitable result of Europe's anti-Semitic history, or as a tragic historical mutation.

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• Authors: Jonathan (Professor Frankel
• Assisted by: Jonathan Frankel (Editor), Jonathan (Professor Frankel (Editor), Frankel Jonathan (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.1998
• EAN: 9780195119312
• ISBN: 978-0-19-511931-2
• No. of pages: 424
• Series: Studies in Contemporary Jewry,; Studies in Contemporary Jewry; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater