The Palgrave handbook of Britain and the Holocaust / Tom Lawson and Andy Pearce, editors.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Foreign public opinion, British.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Public opinion.

Public opinion.

Physical Description:

xix, 510 pages : illustrations (black and white), map ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust

Britain and the Holocaust

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

Summary:

This handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume on the history and memory of the Holocaust in Britain. It traces the complex relationship between Britain and the destruction of Europe?s Jews, from societal and political responses to persecution in the 1930s, through formal reactions to war and genocide, to works of representation and remembrance in post-war Britain. Through this process the handbook not only updates existing historiography of Britain and the Holocaust; it also adds new dimensions to our understanding by exploring the constant interface and interplay of history and memory. The chapters bring together internationally renowned academics and talented younger scholars. Collectively, they examine a raft of themes and issues concerning the actions of contemporaries to the Holocaust, and the responses of those who came ?after?. At a time when the Holocaust-related activity in Britain proceeds apace, the contributors to this handbook highlight the importance of rooting what we know and understand about Britain and the Holocaust in historical actuality. This, the volume suggests, is the only way to respond meaningfully to the challenges posed by the Holocaust and ensure that the memory of it has purpose.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Britain and the Holocaust: An Introduction / Andy Pearce

pt. I Political Contexts

2. British Interwar Fascism and Anti-fascism / Daniel Tilles

3. The Agenda of British Refugee Policy, 1933

18 / Louise London

pt. II Refugees in Britain: 1933

39

4. The Immigration and Reception of Jewish Refugees from the Third Reich / Anthony Grenville

5. T Remember Their Labels Round Their Necks' Britain and the Kinder transport / Andrea Hammel

pt. III War and Holocaust

6. Knowledge in Britain of the Holocaust During the Second World War / Michael Fleming

7. The Unlikely Tale of a Hero Named Coward: Uncomfortable Truths and the Necessary War / Russell Wallis

8. Belsen and the British / Dan Stone

pt. IV Punishment and Memory

9. `Where, Exactly, Is Auschwitz?' British Confrontation with the Holocaust Through the Medium of the 1945 `Belsen' Trial / Caroline Sharpies

10. Campaigning for Justice: Anti-Fascist Campaigners, Nazi-Era Collaborator War Criminals and Britain's Failure to Prosecute, 1945

1999 / Paul Jackson

11. Selective Histories: Britain, the Empire and the Holocaust / Michelle Gordon

pt. V Cultural Representations

12. Beyond the Cesspit Beneath: The BBC and the Holocaust / James Jordan

13. British Cinema and the Holocaust / Barry Langford

14. British Holocaust Literature / Sue Vice

pt. VI The Holocaust in British Society

15. A Defining Decade? Swastikas, Eichmann and Arson in 1960s Britain / Nigel Copsey

16. The Legacy of the Holocaust, Jewish History and British Antisemitism: The `Jew Murderer' and the Murder of the Jews / Tony Kushner

17. T Belong Here. I Know I Ought Never to Have Come Back, Because It Has Proved I've Never Been Away': Kitty Hart-Moxon's Documentaries of Return / Isabel Wollaston

pt. VII Public Pedagogy

18. Holocaust Education in England: Concerns, Controversies and Challenges / Stuart Foster

19. Holocaust Representation in the Imperial War Museum, 2000

2020 / Hannah Holtschneider

20. Negotiating Memory and Agency: David Cesarani and the Imperial War Museum's Holocaust Exhibition (2000) / Chad Mcdonald

pt. VIII Institutional Memory

21. From Celebrating Diversity to British Values: The Changing Face of Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain / Kara Critchell

22. Visions of Permanence, Realities of Instability: The Prime Minister's Holocaust Commission and the United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Foundation / David Tollerton

pt. IX Postscript

23. Britishness, Brexit, and the Holocaust / Andy Pearce.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'Palgrave handbooks".

ISBN:

3030559319

9783030559311

OCLC:

1164500768

Publisher Number:

99986716539