Jewish Histories of the Holocaust ― New Transnational Approaches

This anthology in the Making Sense of History series is designed for academic readers and general readers with a special interest in Jewish narratives of the Holocaust. It seeks to fill a historical gap. Both because of how history has been written, and the technical difficulty of gathering accounts of the Holocaust from those who were victims of it, most history of the Holocaust has focused on its perpetrators and those who opposed or enabled them from outside its structure. Here, the editor gathers scholarly essays by academics seeking to understand the Holocaust from the perspectives of those who were in it because they were Jews. Part one gives two theoretical overviews, of the Jewish dimension and the regional history dimension of the Holocaust. Part two looks at Jewish leadership. Other sections look at documentation, testimony, and experience; rethinking self-help and resistance; politics, aesthetics, and memory in the aftermath. The anthology has an international focus. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Norman J.W. Goda is the Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida. His publications include Tomorrow the World: Hitler, Northwest Africa and the Path Towards America (1998); Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War (2007); and The Holocaust: Europe, the World, and the Jews (2013).