Yad Vashem Studies. Vol.42/2

Eine der führenden Zeitschriften zur Holocaustforschung mit hochkarätigen Beiträgern aus aller Welt. Alle Bände sind komplett englischsprachig.Seit 1957 widmet sich »Yad Vashem Studies« der Holocaustforschung und hat sich konstant dadurch ausgezeichnet, die führenden Forscher und Denker aus aller Welt und aus verschiedenen Disziplinen als Beiträger zu versammeln. Viele Denkanstöße und wegweisende Thesen nahmen hier ihren Anfang.Bis 2007 erschien die Zeitschrift in Israel jährlich, seitdem halbjährlich.CONTENTS:IntroductionAlan Rosen: Tracking Jewish Time in AuschwitzEduard Niznanský: On Relations between the Slovak Majority and Jewish Minority during World War IICordelia Hess: »Some short business trips«: Kurt Forstreuter and the Looting of Archives in Poland and Lithuania, 1939-1942Assaf Yedidya: »Why Does the Way of the Wicked Prosper?«: Aaron Kaminka's Theological Response to the Persecution of the JewsGali Drucker Bar-Am: »May the Makom Comfort You«: Place, Holocaust Remembrance, and the Creation of National Identity in the Israeli Yiddish Press, 1948-1961REVIEWSRandolph L. Braham: Labor Service as the Embodiment of Antisemitism. Review of Robert Rozett, Conscripted Slaves: Hungarian Jewish Forced Laborers on the Eastern Front during the Second World WarMichael R. Marrus: FDR and the Holocaust: From Blaming to Understanding. Review of Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman, FDR and the JewsEliot Nidam Orvieto: Jewish Rescue by a French Capuchin. Review of Susan Zuccotti, Pere Marie-Benoit and Jewish Rescue: How a French Priest Together with Jewish Friends Saved Thousands during the HolocaustMichael Shafir: A Present Chiaroscuro. Review of John-Paul Himka and Joanna Beata Michlic, eds., Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist EuropeJan Grabowski: A Scholar »on the Rez«: About Erica Lehrer's Jewish Poland. Revisited Review of Erica Lehrer, Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet PlacesLETTERSJan Lánícek: In response to Anna Hajkova, »Murky Waters in London and Prague: The Jewish Politics of the Czechoslovak Government, 1938-1948«, in Yad Vashem Studies, vol. 42, no. 1 (2014), pp. 139-150. Review of Jan Lani_ek, Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews: Beyond Idealisation and CondemnationFlorent Brayard: In response to Robert Jan van Pelt, »A Conspiracy to Deceive, or Tactful Silence ?« Yad Vashem Studies, vol. 41, no. 2 (2013), pp. 275-289. Review of Florent Brayard, Auschwitz, enquete sur un complot nazi

List of contents

CONTENTS:
Introduction

Alan Rosen: Tracking Jewish Time in Auschwitz

Eduard Niznanský: On Relations between the Slovak Majority and Jewish Minority during World War II

Cordelia Hess: "Some short business trips": Kurt Forstreuter and the Looting of Archives in Poland and Lithuania, 1939-1942

Assaf Yedidya: "Why Does the Way of the Wicked Prosper?": Aaron Kaminka's Theological Response to the Persecution of the Jews

Gali Drucker Bar-Am: "May the Makom Comfort You": Place, Holocaust Remembrance, and the Creation of National Identity in the Israeli Yiddish Press, 1948-1961

REVIEWS
Randolph L. Braham: Labor Service as the Embodiment of Antisemitism. Review of Robert Rozett, Conscripted Slaves: Hungarian Jewish Forced Laborers on the Eastern Front during the Second World War

Michael R. Marrus: FDR and the Holocaust: From Blaming to Understanding. Review of Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman, FDR and the Jews

Eliot Nidam Orvieto: Jewish Rescue by a French Capuchin. Review of Susan Zuccotti, Pere Marie-Benoit and Jewish Rescue: How a French Priest Together with Jewish Friends Saved Thousands during the Holocaust

Michael Shafir: A Present Chiaroscuro. Review of John-Paul Himka and Joanna Beata Michlic, eds., Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe

Jan Grabowski: A Scholar "on the Rez": About Erica Lehrer's Jewish Poland. Revisited Review of Erica Lehrer, Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places

LETTERS
Jan Lánícek: In response to Anna Hajkova, "Murky Waters in London and Prague: The Jewish Politics of the Czechoslovak Government, 1938-1948", in Yad Vashem Studies, vol. 42, no. 1 (2014), pp. 139-150. Review of Jan Lani?ek, Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews: Beyond Idealisation and Condemnation

Florent Brayard: In response to Robert Jan van Pelt, "A Conspiracy to Deceive, or Tactful Silence ?" Yad Vashem Studies, vol. 41, no. 2 (2013), pp. 275-289. Review of Florent Brayard, Auschwitz, enquete sur un complot nazi

About the author

David Silberklang ist Senior Historian in Yad Vashem, lehrt Jüdische Geschichte an der Hebräischen Universität, Jerusalem, und ist Herausgeber des »Holocaust Survivors` Memoirs Project« in Yad Vashem.

Product details

• Assisted by: Davi Silberklang (Editor), David Silberklang (Editor)
• Publisher: Wallstein
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2015
• EAN: 9783835316898
• ISBN: 978-3-8353-1689-8
• No. of pages: 277
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• Series: Yad Vashem Studies 42.2; Yad Vashem Studies; Yad Vashem Studies 42.2
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945)