Rethinking the Holocaust

by Yehuda Bauer

• ISBN13: 9780300093001
• ISBN10: 0300093004
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2002-02-08
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

One of the world's premier historians of the Holocaust evaluates accepted views of its history and meaning in this extraordinary book. Yehuda Bauer offers his own interpretation of why the Holocaust occurred and how another can be prevented. He offers fresh opinions on topics ranging from how Jews reacted to the murderous campaign against them to the relationship between the Holocaust and the establishment of Israel.

Author Biography

Yehuda Bauer is the former director of the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, and now serves as its academic advisor

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	ix
What Was the Holocaust?	1	(13)
Is the Holocaust Explicable?	14	(25)
Comparisons with Other Genocides	39	(29)
Overall Interpretations: Zygmunt Bauman, Jeffrey Herf, Goetz Aly	68	(25)
Overall Interpretations: Daniel J. Goldhagen, John Weiss, Saul Friedlander	93	(26)
Jewish Resistance-Myth or Reality?	119	(24)
Unarmed Resistance and Other Responses	143	(24)
The Problem of Gender: The Case of Gisi Fleischmann	167	(19)
Theology, or God the Surgeon	186	(27)
Rescue Attempts: The Case of the Auschwitz Protocols	213	(29)
From the Holocaust to the State of Israel	242	(19)
appendix Speech to the Bundestag	261	(14)
Notes	275	(36)
Bibliography	311	(10)
Index	321