The Nazi Holocaust: Its History and MeaningThe 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
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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