The Holocaust: Readings and Interpretations (Textbook)

Mitchell, Joseph R

ISBN 10: 0072448164 / ISBN 13: 9780072448160

Published by Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, 2001

Seller Inventory # 0072448164-3-33554686

Synopsis:

The Holocaust: Readings and Interpretations raises important questions related to the study of the Holocaust and offers potential answers to these questions through interpretive essays from the field's leading scholars, many with differing opinions and points of view. The book emphasizes the complexity of the subject, while it seeks to provide an understanding of an historical event that for many people still defies comprehension.Although the attempted annihilation of European Jews by Hitler's Third Reich occurred between 1933 and 1945, the roots of antisemitism are at least two millennia old. Each of the book's nine chapters raises relevant questions regarding the Holocaust: its historical context, the factors which made it possible, its victims and perpetrators, responses to it by individuals, groups, and nations, issues of gender, and the philosophical and theological implications. The concluding section of the book explores the latest scholarship in the field through analysis and evaluation of the topics which attract historians today.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Holocaust: Readings and Interpretations ...
Publisher: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good