Jews : a contrary people / Yehuda Bauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauer, Yehuda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Study and teaching.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Antisemitism.

Genocide--Prevention.

Genocide.

Physical Description:

304 pages

Place of Publication:

Zürich ; Beriln : Lit Verlag, 2014.

Summary:

Yehuda Bauer was director of the International Centre for Holocaust Studies in Yad Vashem (1996-2000). He is professor emeritus of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a visiting professor at Brandies University, Yale University, Richard Stockton College, and Clark University. Bauer was awarded the Israel Prize and is a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In addition, he currently serves as academic adviser to Yad Vashem, academic adviser to the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research, and senior adviser to the Swedish Government on the International Forum on Genocide Prevention. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 To Start From The End 5

2 A Contrary People 33

3 Holocaust, God, and Religion 57

4 Jews and non-Jews - Sympathy, Indifference, and Antisemitism The West and Christian Civilization 87

5 Antisemitism in the Moslem World 121

6 Genocide 147

7 Re-Rethinking the Holocaust 191

8 Back to the Present: Jewish Identity, Secularism, Zionism, and a Place in the World 261.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3643905017

9783643905017

OCLC:

875742677