A History of the Holocaust (Single Title Social Studies)
Edition: Revised edition
Publisher: Franklin Watts, a division of Scholastic Inc.
Published: September 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780531155769
Subjects: Jews; History; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12); Juvenile Nonfiction; Children's 12-Up - History - General; Juvenile literature; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Historical - Holocaust; General; 1789-1945
First sentence: TO THE JEWS, the Bible is the Tanakh, an acronym for the Law (Torah), the Prophets (Nevi'im), and the Writings (Ktuvim); to the Christians, the Tanakh is the Old Testament, and the Bible includes the New Testament as well.
Table of contents: title: 1. Who are the Jews?; title: Christianity and the developing Jewish civilization; title: Jewish reactions until modern times; title: Jewish mysticism and Messianism; title: Jewish social and economic life in the diaspora; title: 2. Liberalism, emancipation, and anti-Semitism.; title: Social and political developments in Eastern Europe; title: The ideological and organizational structure of nineteenth century Jewish society; title: The results of emancipation; title: Modern antisemitism; title: Political antisemitism; title: Jewish reactions; title: Zionism and Palestine; title: The Bund; title: Anti-Zionist and other reactions; title: 3. World War I and its aftermath.; title: The background : 1914-1918; title: Genocide on the Armenians; title: The background : 1918-1933; title: Soviet Jewry; title: British and French Jewry; title: Antisemitism in Britain and France; title: American Jewry; title: The new Jewish center in the United States; title: Jewish reactions; title: 4. The Weimar Republic.; title: The Revolutionary era; title: Social and economic problems; title: Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party; title: Nazi antisemitism; title: 5. The evolution of Nazi Jewish policy, 1933-1938.; title: German foreign policy; title: Nazi antisemitic policy; title: 6. German Jewry in the prewar era, 1933-1938.; title: Jewish emigration; title: Christianity and the Nazis; title: 7. Poland : the siege begins.; title: The German invasion; title: The Jews in prewar Poland; title: The Jews in occupied Poland; title: The German plan for Jewish containment; title: The ghettoes; title: The Jewish councils, the Judenräte; title: Four Jewish councils; title: The Lódz Judenrat; title: The Vilna (Vilnius) Judenrat; title: The Warsaw Judenrat; title: The Minsk Judenrat; title: 8. Life in the ghettoes.; title: Ghettoes in Poland; title: The will to survive; title: Religious life; title: Education and cultural activity; title: Youth movements; title: Historical documentation; title: Ghettoes in the USSR; title: Kovno; title: Terezin (Theresienstadt), the "model" ghetto; title: The limits of unarmed resistance; title: 9. The "final solution".; title: The Wannsee Conference; title: Concentration and death camps; title: Auschwitz; title: 10. West European Jewry, 1940-1944.; title: France; title: The southern (Vichy) zone; title: The northern zone; title: Algerian Jews under Vichy rule; title: The Italian-occupied zone of France; title: Belgium; title: Holland; title: 11. Resistance.; title: Armed resistance; title: The attitude toward resistance in the ghetto; title: Other problems of armed resistance; title: The Warsaw ghetto rebellion; title: The Bialystock ghetto rebellion; title: The resistance in Vilna; title: Resistance in other ghettoes; title: Partisans in Eastern Europe; title: Resistance in camps; title: Resistance in Western Europe; title: 12. Rescue?; title: Summary, 1935-1939; title: Poland and Lithuania, 1939-1941; title: Jewish-Gentile relations in Eastern Europe; title: The avenue of the righteous; title: The rescue of Bulgarian Jews; title: Rescue operation in Western Europe; title: France; title: Denmark; title: The attitudes of the major powers; title: The USSR, 1939-1942; title: The United States, 1939-1942; title: Britain, 1939-1942; title: Public information about the Holocaust, 1942-1944; title: 13. The last years of the Holocaust, 1943-1945.; title: Romania; title: The rescue negotiations; title: Slovakia; title: Hungary; title: The War Refugee Board; title: Trucks for lives; title: The Mayer negotiations; title: The war ends; title: Was rescue by negotiation possible?; title: The Holocaust, summing up; title: What "caused" the Holocaust?; title: Holocaust and genocide, is there a difference?; title: Theodicy, where was god? Where was man?; title: Consequences of the Holocaust; title: 14. Aftermath and revival; title: Appendix. Himmler's "Reflections on the treatment of peoples of alien races in the East"