The Nazi Holocaust: Its History and Meaning

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Bloomsbury Publishing, Feb 12, 2016 - History - 424 pages
The Nazi Holocaust is one of the most momentous events in human history. Yet, it remains on many levels a baffling and unfathomable mystery. By shunning simplistic 'explanations' Ronnie Landau has set out, in a clear, thought-provoking and enlightened fashion, to mediate betweeen this vast, often unapproachable subject and the reader who wrestles with its meaning. Locating the Holocaust within a number of different contexts - Jewish history, German history, genocide in the modern age, the larger story of human bigotry and the triumph of ideology over conscience - Landau penetrates to the very heart of its moral and historical significance. Deeply concerned lest the Holocaust, as a 'unique' phenomenon, be cordoned off from the rest of human history and ghettoized within the highly charged realm of 'Jewish experience', he is at pains to show that transmitting understanding of the Holocaust is about connecting with all humanity.Intended both for the general reader and for students and academics (especially in history, psychology, literature and the humanities), this work is an important breakthrough in the struggle to perpetuate the memory of a tragedy which the world is all too ready to forget.
 

Contents

Authors Preface to the Third Edition
Authors Preface to the Second Edition
Additional Reading
Survey of Jewish History c 300 BC to c 1700
The European Jew and the Modern World
Nazism and Modern Germany From National
Nazi Germany 19338 AntiJewish Policy
Nazi Europe 193841 From Kristallnacht
The Jewish Question Public Opinion in Nazi
The Aftermath and Impact of the Holocaust
Notes
Bibliography
Writings
The Programme of the NationalSocialist
Chronology of the Holocaust 193345
Glossary of Basic Terms

The Holocaust 19415 From Dehumanization
Perpetrators Victims and Bystanders
The Jews of the Roman Empire 100300

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About the author (2016)

Ronnie Landau is the former Educational Director of the Spiro Institute for the Study of Jewish History and Culture, Head of Humanities and Principal Lecturer at the City Literary Institute and Visiting Lecturer in Modern Jewish History at both Leo Baeck College and the International Study Centre of Queen's University (Ontario). Founding Director of the British Holocaust Education Project, he currently teaches Classical languages at Sussex House School in London.

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