The Nazi Holocaust - Hardcover

Landau, Ronnie S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1850435170 ISBN 13: 9781850435174

Publisher: I.B. Tauris, 1992

Synopsis

The Holocaust of the Nazi era is one of the most momentous events in human history. Yet, despite whole libraries devoted to it, it remains on many levels a baffling and unfathomable mystery. By shunning simplistic "explanations" and offering questions rather than answers, 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 and the larger story of human bigotry and the triumph of ideology over conscience - the author has penetrated to the very heart of its moral, historical and educational significance. Deeply concerned lest the Holocaust, as a "unique" phenomenon, be cordoned off from the rest of human history and ghettoized within the highly charged realm of "Jewish experience", he is at pains to show that transmitting understanding of the Holocaust is, like all good education "about the making and not the breaking of connections".

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Review:

'Ronnie Landau has written a quite remarkable book.' --The Times

'Subtle but lucid - a most stimulating synthesis.' --Times Educational Supplement

'Landau comes as near as it is possible to making the Holocaust comprehensible - essential.' --The Jewish Quarterly

From the Back Cover:

Brief but surprisingly comprehensive, The Nazi Holocaust places the tragedy in historical context, summarizes its major events, and considers the moral, ethical, and psychological issues that have followed in its wake. By showing how the event is universal rather than uniquely Jewish, and by making connections between the Holocaust and larger human history, Ronnie S. Landau succeeds in making the Holocaust understandable for the common reader. "The central problems in communicating the Holocaust experience", Landau writes, "involve questions of context, perspective, balance, and emphasis. Very often one or more of the necessary frameworks within which an understanding of the Holocaust may be approached - Jewish history, modern German history, genocide in the modern world, or the fundamental mechanisms of human psychology - is neglected or glossed over". By placing the Holocaust within these contexts, Landau makes connections that help to universalize the experience. Designed for the general reader as well as for students and educators, The Nazi Holocaust has won the endorsement of a variety of religious and ethnic organizations and leaders in Holocaust studies. It is likely to become a standard introduction to the Holocaust.

About this edition

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1850435170
• ISBN 13: 9781850435174
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300