Studies in Contemporary Jewry Volume XIII: The Fate of the European Jews, 1939-1945: Continuity or Contingency?

by Frankel, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780195119312
• ISBN10: 0195119312
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-02-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Was the Holocaust a natural product of a long German history of Anti-Semitism? Or were the Nazi policies simply a wild mutation of history, not necessarily connected to the past? Or does the truth lie somewhere in between? This latest volume in the acclaimed Studies in Contemporary Jewry series, edited by internationally known scholars at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, presents essays on the origins of the Holocaust. The works in this volume are diverse in scope and opinion, ranging from general philosophical discourses to detailed analyses of specific events, and often reflecting the divergent ideologies and methods of the contributors. But each adds to the whole, and the result is a fascinating panorama that is sure to be indispensable to all students and scholars of the subject.

Table of Contents

Symposium The Fate of the European Jews, 1939-1945: Continuity or Contingency?	3	(250)
Yehuda Bauer
Some Introductory Comments	3	(6)
Gavin I. Langmuir
Continuities, Discontinuities and Contingencies of the Holocaust	9	(21)
Zygmunt Bauman
The Camps: Eastern, Western, Modern	30	(11)
Steven T. Katz
Radical Historical Discontinuity: Explaining the Holocaust	41	(15)
Gotz Aly
Susanne Heim
Forced Emigration, War, Deportation and Holocaust	56	(18)
Michael R. Marrus
Auschwitz: New Perspectives on the Final Solution	74	(10)
Dan Diner
Memory and Method: Variance in Holocaust Narrations	84	(16)
Geoff Eley
What Are the Contexts for German Antisemitism? Some Thoughts on the Origins of Nazism, 1800-1945	100	(33)
Susan Zuccotti
The Italian Racial Laws, 1938-1943: A Reevaluation	133	(20)
Henry Rousso
The Dreyfus Affair in Vichy France: Past and Present in French Political Culture	153	(17)
John-Paul Himka
Ukrainian Collaboration in the Extermination of the Jews During the Second World War: Sorting Out the Long-Term and Conjunctural Factors	170	(20)
Antony Polonsky
Beyond Condemnation, Apologetics and Apologies: On the Complexity of Polish Behavior Toward the Jews During the Second World War	190	(35)
Dan Michman
Understanding the Jewish Dimension of the Holocaust	225	(28)
Essay The Origins of the Myth of the "New Jew": The Zionist Variety	253	(18)
Anita Shapira
Review Essays	271	(18)
Richard H. King
Hannah Arendt: The Public and the Private	271	(9)
J. C. Hurewitz
Israeli Foreign Policy: Documenting the Past 1947-1953	280	(9)
Book Reviews (arranged by subject)	289	(111)
Antisemitism, Holocaust and Genocide	289	(29)
Michel Abitbol
NORMAN A. STILLMAN
MiCremiuex lePetain: Antishemiyut bealgeriyah hakoloniyalit (1870-1940) (From Cremieux to Petain: Antisemitism in Colonial Algeria [1870-1940])	289	(3)
Paul R. Bartrop
RICHARD BOLCHOVER
False Havens: The British Empire and the Holocaust	292	(3)
Lucjan Dobroszycki
DAVID ENGEL
Reptile Journalism: The Official Polish-Language Press Under the Nazis, 1938-1945	295	(2)
Eugenia Gurin-Loov
DOV LEVIN
Shoah--Suur Having: Eesti Juutide Katastroof 1941 (The Holocaust of Estonian Jews, 1941)	297	(3)
Israel Gutman
ABRAHAM BRUMBERG
Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising	300	(3)
David A. Hackett
MICHAEL BERENBAUM
The Buchenwald Report	303	(1)
Esriel Hildesheimer
WALTER ZWI BACHARACH
Judische Selbstverwaltung unter dem NS-Regime	304	(2)
Harold Kaplan
LUCIA RUEDENBERG-WRIGHT
Conscience and Memory: Meditations in a Museum of the Holocaust	306	(2)
Lawrence Langer
JAMES E. YOUNG
Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays	308	(1)
Lawrence Langer
JAMES E. YOUNG
Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology	308	(3)
Mortimer Ostow
MARTIN WANGH
Myth and Madness: The Psychodynamics of Antisemitism	311	(2)
Alison Owings
EVE ROSENHAFT
Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich	313	(2)
Efraim Zuroff
DEBORAH E. LIPSTADT
Occupation: Nazi Hunter--The Continuing Search for Perpetrators of the Holocaust	315	(3)
History and the Social Sciences	318	(51)
Steven E. Aschheim
RICHARD WOLIN
Culture and Catastrophe: German and Jewish Confrontations with National Socialism and Other Crises	318	(1)
Pierre Birnbaum
Ira Katznelson
LLOYD P. GARTNER
Paths of Emancipation: Jews, States and Citizenship	319	(4)
Rose Cohen
GERALD SORIN
Out of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side	323	(2)
Lynn Davidman
Shelly Tenenbaum
SHULAMIT S. MAGNUS
Feminist Perspectives on Jewish Studies	325	(2)
Gertrude Wishnick Dubrovsky
EWA MORAWSKA
The Land Was Theirs: Jewish Farmers in the Garden State	327	(2)
Gerhard Falk
LAURENCE A. KOTLER-BERKOWITZ
American Judaism in Transition: The Secularization of a Religious Community	329	(3)
Sylvia Barack Fishman
MARGALIT SHILO
A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community
Reena Sigman Friedman
DANIEL SOYER
These Are Our Children: Jewish Orphanages in the United States, 1880-1925
Robert Alan Goldberg
EWA MORAWSKA
Back to the Soil: The Jewish Farmers of Clarion, Utah and Their World	327	(8)
Gregg Ivers
GARY JEFFREY JACOBSON
To Build a Wall: American Jews and the Separation of Church and State	335	(2)
Jacob Katz
GEORGE L. MOSSE
With My Own Eyes: A Historian's Autobiography	337	(3)
Diane Lichtenstein
SYLVIA BARACK FISHMAN
Writing Their Nations: The Tradition of Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women Writers	340	(2)
Edward T. Linenthal
ROCHELLE G. SAIDEL
Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum	342	(2)
Seymour Martin Lipset
Earl Raab
DEBORAH DASH MOORE
Jews and the New American Scene	344	(2)
Lara V. Marks
SHARMAN KADISH
Model Mothers: Jewish Mothers and Maternity Provision in East London, 1870-1939	346	(2)
J. Sanford Rikoon
HENRY J. TOBIAS
Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains	348	(2)
Moses Rischin
John Livingston
ROBERT A. ROCKAWAY
Jews of the American West	350	(3)
Yaakov Ro'i
ALEXANDER ORBACH
Jews and Jewish Life in Russia and the Soviet Union	353	(1)
Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll
Leonardo Senkman
JUDITH LAIKIN ELKIN
Judaica Latinoamericana: Estudios Historico-Sociales II	354	(3)
Ismar Schorsch
SHULAMIT VOLKOV
From Text to Context: The Turn to History in Modern Judaism	357	(2)
Naomi Shepherd
ROCHELLE GOLDBERG RUTHCHILD
A Price Below Rubies: Jewish Women as Rebels and Radicals	359	(4)
Melford E. Spiro
SHULAMIT REINHARZ
Gender and Culture: Kibbutz Women Revisited	363	(3)
Henry Felix Srebrnik
SHARMAN KADISH
London Jews and British Communism 1935-1945	366
Henry J. Tobias
ROBERT A. ROCKAWAY
A History of the Jews in New Mexico	350	(19)
Language, Literature and the Arts	369
Mark Anderson
W. J. DODD
Kafka's Clothes: Ornament and Aestheticism in the Habsburg "Fin de Siecle,"	369	(2)
Alan Cheuse
Nicholas Delbanco
EMILY BUDICK
Talking Horse: Bernard Malamud on Life and Work	371	(2)
Lawrence Graver
STEPHEN J. WHITFIELD
An Obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and the Diary	373	(2)
Hannan Hever
HAMUTAL BAR-YOSEF
Bishvi hautopiyah: masah 'al meshihiyut upolitikah bashirah ha'ivrit beerez yisrael bein shtei milhamot ha'olam (Captives of Utopia: An Essay on Messianism and Politics in Hebrew Poetry in Eretz Israel Between the Two World Wars	375	(3)
Lawrence A. Hoffman
Janet R. Walton
MARK SLOBIN
Sacred Sound and Social Change: Liturgical Music in Jewish and Christian Experience	378	(3)
Astrid Starck
AVRAHAM GREENBAUM
Westjiddish: Mundlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit--Le Yiddish occidental: Actes du Colloque de Mulhouse	381
Religion, Thought and Education	271
Hannah Arendt
RICHARD H. KING
Love and St. Augustine (ed. Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and Judith Chelius Stark)	271
Richard J. Bernstein
RICHARD H. KING
Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question	271
Carole Brightman
RICHARD H. KING
Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975	271
Elzbieta Ettinger
RICHARD H. KING
Hannah Arendt/Martin Heidegger	271
Shulamit Soloveitchik Meiselman
SHAUL STAMPFER
The Soloveitchik Heritage: A Daughter's Memoir	382	(1)
Gloria Wiederkehr-Pollack
SHAUL STAMPFER
Eliezer Zweifel and the Intellectual Defense of Hasidism	384	(3)
Walter S. Wurzburger
SHUBERT SPERO
Ethics of Responsibility: Pluralistic Approaches to Covenantal Ethics	384	(3)
Zionism, Israel and the Middle East	387	(13)
Uri Bar-Joseph
SHLOMO GAZIT
Intelligence Intervention in the Politics of Democratic States: U.S., Israel and Britain	387	(3)
Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov
MARK A. HELLER
Israel and the Peace Process, 1977-1982: In Search of Legitimacy for Peace	390
J.C. HUREWITZ
Documents on the Foreign Policy of Israel (Vols. 1-8)	280
J.C. HUREWITZ
Political and Diplomatic Documents, December 1947-May 1948	280
Boas Evron
CHARLES S. LIEBMAN
Jewish State or Israeli Nation? (trans. James Diamond)	392	(2)
David Garnham
Mark Tessler
JACOB M. LANDAU
Democracy, War, and Peace in the Middle East	394	(2)
Yael Zerubavel
NACHMAN BEN-YEHUDA
Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition	396	(4)
Recently Completed Doctoral Dissertations	400	(6)
Contents for Volume XIV	406	(1)
Note on Editorial Policy	407