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NEWLY RELEASED!

NAZI EUROPE AND THE FINAL SOLUTION
Edited by David Bankier and Israel Gutman
Published in Association with Yad Vashem and the International Institute for Holocaust Research

"The volume offers a broad overview of the ‘bystander’ research in recent years, which has identified as the most common behaviour rescue, apathy, indifference, passive complicity, or collaboration, all defying exact quantification. However, what all societies have in common is the notion of Jews as a group apart, reinforced substantially through occupation and propaganda ... As a stocktaking exercise and starting point for a many more investigations this volume will be of lasting significance."  •  Dieter Pohl, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, München

[more: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=BankierNazi]


HOLOCAUST HISTORIOGRAPHY
Emergence, Challenges, Polemics and Achievements
Edited by David Bankier and Dan Michman
Published in Association with Yad Vashem and the International Institute for Holocaust Research

This volume examines the very beginnings of the effort to apply scholarly standards to the understanding of the Holocaust - when World War II was still raging and immediately after it had ended…

[more: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=BankierHolocaust]


THE TRAIN JOURNEY
Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust
Simone Gigliotti

Deportations by train were critical in the Nazis’ genocidal vision of the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." Historians have estimated that between 1941 and 1944 up to three million Jews were transported to their deaths in concentration and extermination camps…

[more: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=GigliottiTrain]

FORTHCOMING!

THE 'FINAL SOLUTION' IN RIGA
Exploitation and Annihilation, 1941-1944
Andrej Angrick, Peter Klein
Translated from the German by Ray Brandon

"With its...[over one thousand] detailed and expansive footnotes drawing on twenty-four different archive collections in eight countries and three continents and an enormous secondary literature, this is one of the best researched regional studies of the Holocaust ever to appear...The precision in the detail and the scope of the contextualization make this one of the more important works to appear on the Holocaust in recent years."  •  English Historical Review

"This very readable and well documented study fills an important gap in the Holocaust literature: it offers insight into the microcosm reflecting the entire terrifying and murderous scenario of the SS State."  •  Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

[more:  http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=AngrickFinal]

NEW IN PAPERBACK!

HITLER'S WAR IN THE EAST, 1941-1945 - 3RD EDITION
A Critical Assessment
Rolf-Dieter Müller and Gerd R. Ueberschär
Translated from the German by Bruce Little
With a Foreword by Gerhard Weinberg

"This book will benefit any person carrying out serious research into Hitler's failure to subjugate Russia."  • Crown Imperial

"This serious study is a must for all interested in the history of World War Two."

"... one of the best jobs of integrating Russian, German, American and British writing on the subject ... most students wishing to write a paper would find everything they need in the way of bibliographical materials by referring to this book."  • Slavic Review

[more: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=MuellerHitlers]


ROBBERY AND RESTITUTION
The Conflict over Jewish Property in Europe
Edited by Martin Dean, Constantin Goschler and Philip Ther
Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

"A well-structured, ambitious collection of essays, it will certainly be an essential read for anyone interested in the anti-Jewish policies of National Socialist Germany and their long-term consequences for postwar Europe."
[more: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=DeanRobbery]

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED!

 
ABOVE THE DEATH PITS, BENEATH THE FLAG
Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity
Jackie Feldman

"Jackie Feldman’s extensive research and absorbing analysis of Israeli youth voyages to Poland result in a compelling and unsettling argument about the meanings of Holocaust memory in Israel. This brilliant contribution will make us rethink the use of Holocaust memory in Israeli culture and society and beyond."  •  Alon Confino, University of Virginia

"ffers rich ethnographic data and evocative observations on the transformative power of Israeli youth trips to the death camps in Poland and explores how they shape the youth’s historical consciousness. Jackie Feldman’s study is a must read for anyone interested in collective memory, tourism and pilgrimage, and the intricate meanings of the Holocaust in contemporary Israeli life."  •  Yael Zerubavel, Director, the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers University

[more: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=FeldmanAbove]


THE STRASSMANNS
Science, Politics and Migration in Turbulent Times (1793-1993)
W. Paul Strassmann
With a Foreword by Jutta Lange-Quassowski, Director of the Strassmann Foundation within the Friedrich Ebert Foundation

"W. Paul Strassmann's genealogical account of his own family's history is an excellent case study detailing the successes and setbacks of a single remarkable German-Jewish family during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries... Strassmann's book makes important contributions to the source basis for the study of fields such as migration, Jewish history, and medical history. This work will be especially useful for breathing life into the larger narrative of Jewish and European history. In this respect, it stands as an invaluable tool for instructors and lecturers."  •  H-Net Reviews

"This book shows once again how significant was the contribution of the small Jewish minority to the achievements of the German bourgeoisie before the devastation of the Nazis barbarism...W.Paul Strassmann tells [his family’s history] soberly, without pathos, yet with much warmth."  •  Berliner Tagesspiegel

"What this book offers is a thick description of German-Jewish everyday life in the 19th and 20th centuries. Mild irony is a great stylistic device, used here to great effect by the author who observes his forebears with empathy but also with scholarly detachment."

[more:  http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=StrassmannStrassmanns]


A NARROW BRIDGE TO LIFE
Jewish Forced Labor and Survival in the Gross-Rosen Camp System, 1940-1945
Bella Gutterman
   
 "Bella Gutterman has discovered many primary sources and original documentation that we had not known about previously... adding considerably to knowledge of stages in German policy formation regarding forced labor, deepening our understanding of the tension between the desire to treat the prisoners as directed by Nazi ideology and wider discussion of the increased need to take advantage of their labor."

[more: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=GuttermanNarrow]

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EUROPEAN JUDAISM
A Journal for the New Europe
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For over 30 years, European Judaism has provided a voice for the postwar Jewish world in Europe. It has reflected the different realities of each country and helped to rebuild Jewish consciousness after the Holocaust. The journal offers stimulating debates exploring the responses of Judaism to contemporary political, social, and philosophical challenges; articles reflecting the full range of contemporary Jewish life in Europe, and including documentation of the latest developments in Jewish-Muslim dialogue; new insights derived from science, psychotherapy, and theology as they impact upon Jewish life and thought; literary exchange as a unique exploration of ideas from leading Jewish writers, poets, scholars, and intellectuals with a variety of documentation, poetry, and book reviews section; and book reviews covering a wide range of international publications.

Volume 42/2009, 2 issues p.a.
ISSN: 0014-3006 (Print) • ISSN: 1752-2323 (Online) 


ISRAEL STUDIES FORUM
An Interdisciplinary Journal

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ISF is the journal of the Association for Israel Studies, an international and interdisciplinary scholarly organization dedicated to the study of all aspects of Israeli society, history, politics, and culture.

Israel Studies Forum explores modern and contemporary Israel from the perspective of the social sciences, history, the humanities, and cultural studies. It also pays close attention to the relationships of Israel to the larger world, especially the Palestinians and other Arabs, the United States, Europe, and other international actors. One of the main tasks of ISF is to review in a timely manner recent book on Israel-related themes. In brief, the function of this publication is to provide a forum for a learned opinion and the latest scholarship on Israel.

Volume 24/2009, 2 issues p.a.
ISSN: 1065-7711 (Print) • ISSN: 1558-545X (Online)

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