Archiv für April 2014

Sussen Is Now Free of Jews: World War II, the Holocaust, and Rural Judaism, Gilya Gerda Schmidt (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012), xvi + 416 pp., hardcover $70.00

Quelle: http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/1/118?rss=1

Chełmno and the Holocaust: The History of Hitler’s First Death Camp, Patrick Montague (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), xv + 291 pp., hardcover $75.00, e-book available

Quelle: http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/1/123?rss=1

The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin, Rebecca Rovit (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2012), xii + 304 pp., illus., paperback $41.00

Quelle: http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/1/116?rss=1

From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965, John Connelly ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012), 376 pp., hardcover $35.00, electronic version available

Quelle: http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/1/111?rss=1

Hrubieszow at the Crossroads: Polish Jews Navigate the German and Soviet Occupations

In the fall of 1939, Jews across western Poland faced a momentous dilemma: whether to stay in their homes under Nazi occupation or to flee to the area controlled by the Soviets. The question was particularly acute for residents of Hrubieszów, m…

Rescued from Oblivion: The Leyb Koniuchowsky Papers and the Holocaust in Provincial Lithuania

Much of our knowledge of the Holocaust in Lithuania is based on experiences in or near Vilnius and Kaunas. In the smaller towns, where tens of thousands of Jews lived before the war, so few survived that first-hand accounts are rare; all the less do o…

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Allied Knowledge of Auschwitz: A (Further) Challenge to the „Elusiveness“ Narrative

Despite important corrective analyses, the narrative that reliable information about Auschwitz was „elusive“ has predominated among scholars. Many argue that the Vrba/Wetzler report was the first information about the camp to reach the West and be acc…

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Marks of Distinction: Christian Perceptions of Jews in the High Middle Ages. Irven M. Resnick ( Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2012), vii + 385 pp., cloth $69.95, electronic version available

Quelle: http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/28/1/109?rss=1