The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies

Few scholarly fields have developed in recent decades as rapidly and vigorously as Holocaust Studies. The persecution and murder perpetrated by the Nazi regime have become the subject of an enormous literature in multiple academic disciplines. Forty-seven contributors debate the key issues at the start of the twenty-first century.

an excellent reference work and more. It contains broad implications for the understanding of genocide as such while emphasizing the Holocausts uniqueness. As important, however, is the Handbooks broad thematic and interdisciplinary approach, which encourages all Holocaust scholars to rethink constantly the paradigmatic and disciplinary barriers that tend to compartmentalize the academic world more generally.

Auteur
Dr. phil. Peter Hayes ist Professor für Geschichte und Holocaust Studies an der Northwestern University in Evanston, USA.

Contenu

• Introduction

• I: Enablers

• 1: Richard S. Levy: Antisemitism

• 2: Patricia Heberer: Science

• 3: Eric D. Weitz: Nationalism

• 4: A. Dirk Moses: Colonialism

• 5: Philip Morgan: Fascism

• 6: Doris Bergen: World Wars

• II: Protagonists

• 7: Alan E. Steinweis: Hitler and Himmler

• 8: Christopher Browning: Problem-Solvers

• 9: Edward Westermann: Killers

• 10: Paul Levine: On-Lookers

• 11: Debórah Dwork: Rescuers

• 12: Dan Michman: Jews

• 13: Lenore J. Weitzman: Women

• 14: Nicholas Stargardt: Children

• 15: Kevin P. Spicer: Catholics

• 16: Robert P. Ericksen: Protestants

• 17: Shlomo Aronson: The Allies

• 18: John Connelly: Gypsies/Homosexuals/Slavs

• III: Settings

• 19: Wolf Gruner: Greater Germany

• 20: Wendy Lower: Living Space

• 21: Radu Ioanid: Occupied and Satellite States

• 22: Martin C. Dean: Ghettos

• 23: Mark Spoerer: Labor Sites

• 24: Karin Orth: Camps

• IV: Representations

• 25: Peter Fritzsche: German Documents/Diaries

• 26: Amos Goldberg: Jews' Diaries/Chronicles

• 27: Henry Greenspan: Survivors' Accounts

• 28: Sara R. Horowitz: Literature

• 29: Lawrence Baron: Film

• 30: Dora Apel: Art

• 31: Bret Werb: Music

• 32: James E. Young: Memorials and Museums

• V: Aftereffects

• 33: Arieh J. Kochavi: Liberation and Dispersal

• 34: Rebecca Wittmann: Punishment

• 35: Peter Hayes: Plunder and Restitution

• 36: Deborah E. Lipstadt: Denial

• 37: Boaz Cohen: Israel

• 38: Jeffrey Shandler: Jewish Culture

• 39: Michael Berenbaum: Judaism

• 40: Stephen R. Haynes: Christianity

• 41: Jeffrey Herf: Germany

• 42: Jan-Werner Müller: Europe

• 43: James E. Waller: The Social Sciences

• 44: Berel Lang: The Humanities

• 45: Simone Schweber: Education

• 46: David H. Jones: Human Rights Law

• 47: John K. Roth: Ethics

• Afterword