The Nazi Holocaust : its history and meaning / Ronnie S. Landau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Landau, Ronnie S., 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.

Psychological aspects.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 395 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

Revised third edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2016.

Summary:

The Nazi Holocaust is one of the most momentous events in human history. Yet, it remains on many levels a baffling and unfathomable mystery. By shunning simplistic "explanations" Ronnie Landau has set out, in a clear, thought-provoking and enlightened fashion, to mediate between this vast, often unapproachable subject and the reader who wrestles with its meaning. Locating the Holocaust within a number of different contexts - Jewish history, German history, genocide in the modern age, the larger story of human bigotry and the triumph of ideology over conscience - Landau penetrates to the very heart of its moral and historical significance. This book is an important breakthrough in the struggle to perpetuate the memory of a tragedy which the world is all too ready to forget.

Contents:

Author's preface to the third edition

Author's preface to the second edition

Author's preface

Additional reading. Introduction : The historical, education and moral significance of the Holocaust. Part 1 The background and context : Survey of Jewish history: c.300BC to c.1700

The European Jew and the modern world

Nazism and modern Germany: from national unification to Hitler's accession to power. Part 2 The Holocaust: a history : Nazi Germany, 1933-8: anti-Jewish policy and legislation

Nazi Europe, 1938-41: from Kristallnacht to ghettoization in the East

The Holocaust, 1941-5: from dehumanization to annihilation. Part 3 Themes, issues and protagonists : Perpetrators, victims and bystanders

The Jewish question: public opinion in Nazi Germany

The aftermath and impact of the Holocaust. Notes

Bibliography

Appendix A Euphemisms of death

Appendix B Yossel Rakover's appeal to God

Appendix C The Jewish question: excerpts from Hitler's writings

Appendix D The programme of the National-Socialist German Workers' Party

Appendix E The Nuremberg Laws

Appendix F German Foreign Ministry memorandum

Appendix G Numbers of Jews murdered in Europe

Chronology of the Holocaust (1933-45)

Glossary of basic terms

Principal characters

Index. Maps : The Jews of the Roman Empire, 100-300AD

Expulsions, 1000-1500.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-316) and index (pages 374-395)

ISBN:

9781780769714

1780769717

OCLC:

944313186