Jewish histories of the Holocaust
Subtitle: new transnational approaches
By: edited by Norman J.W. Goda
Contributors: Bartov, Omer, author
Series: Making sense of history -- Volume 19
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781782384410; 9781782384427
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Historiography; Personal narratives; History and criticism; Influence; World War, 1939-1945; Jewish resistance
Description: For many years, histories of the Holocaust focused on its perpetrators, and only recently have more scholars begun to consider in detail the experiences of victims and survivors, as well as the documents they left behind. This volume contains new research from internationally established scholars. It provides an introduction to and overview of Jewish narratives of the Holocaust. The essays include new considerations of sources ranging from diaries and oral testimony to the hidden Oyneg Shabbes archive of the Warsaw Ghetto; arguments regarding Jewish narratives and how they fit into the larger fields of Holocaust and Genocide studies; and new assessments of Jewish responses to mass murder ranging from ghetto leadership to resistance and memory.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-294) and index