Holocaust studies : critical reflections The great majority of Holocaust scholarship concentrates heavily if not almost completely on the Final Solution from the German side. The distinctive feature of this book both individually and as a collection is its concentration on the Holocaust from a Judeo centric point of view. The present essays make a unique contribution by exploring issues such as: the effect of events specifically on Jewish women and children; the character of the Nazi policy of slave labor in as much as this essential program resulted in different treatment with regard to Jews as compared to other workers; how the destruction of European Jewry has been responded to by Jewish thinkers; and how Jewish values such as the well known principle that all Jews are responsible for each other  were exemplified and lived out during the war. The collection also includes an essay on Elie Wiesel and another that explores the much discussed very controversial issue of Jewish resistance as well as several essays on philosophical and comparative issues raised by the Shoah On the Holocaust and comparative history + update Mass death under communist rule and the limits of otherness + update Auschwitz and the Gulag : discontinuities and dissimilarities + update Children in Auschwitz and the Gulag + update On the definition of genocide and the issue of uniqueness + update Exploring the Holocaust and comparative history + update Extermination trumps production + update The murder of Jewish children during the Holocaust + update Thoughts on the intersection of rape and Rassenschande + update History and Halakha + update Exploring the concept of Kol Yisrael Arevim zeh lazeh + update Thinking about Jewish resistance during the Holocaust + update Elie Wiesel : the man and his legacy + update The issue of confirmation and disconfirmation in Jewish thought + update Jewish theologians respond to the Holocaust + update.