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978-0-7618-7092-0 • Paperback • May 2019 • $34.99 • (£30.00)
978-0-7618-7093-7 • eBook • May 2019 • $33.00 • (£25.00)
Claudia Moscovici is a Romanian-American author, who writes about the Romantic movement, and psychology as well as historical fiction. Her most recent book, Dangerous Liaisons (Relazioni Pericolose), was launched in Italian translation at the Italian Parliament, Camera dei Deputati.
Foreword by Rabbi Joseph PolakIntroductionPreface: A Precedent for the Holocaust1. Between Fanaticism and Terror: Hitler, Stalin and The Noise of Time2. Elie Wiesel’s Night: Shedding Light Upon the Darkness3. Bergen-Belsen and Four Perfect Pebbles4. The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank by Willy Lindwer5. Hazy Hints of Memory: After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring6. Survivors Club: A Family’s Legendary Tale7. Levi’s Reflection on Humanity in Crisis: Survival in Auschwitz8. Sarah’s Key and the Holocaust in France9. The Holocaust in Hungary: Leni Yahil’s The Holocaust10. A Holocaust Hero in Hungary: Wallenberg by Kati Marton11. Imre Kertesz’s Fatelessness12. Anti-Semitism in Hungary Today13. Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism: Why the Jews?14. The Role of the Masses in The Origins of Totalitarianism15. Beyond the Jewish Genocide: Inferno by Max Hastings16. Hitler’s Ban on Modern Art: The “Degenerate Art” Exhibit17. Saving European Art from the Nazis: The Monuments Men18. The Holocaust in Austria and The Woman in Red19. On the Anschluss: Becoming Alice20. The Gypsy Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies21. Eichmann in Jerusalem: What is the Banality of Evil?22. The Real Banality of Evil: Ordinary Men23. Eichmann’s Extraordinary Evil: Eichmann Before Jerusalem24. The Concentration Camp Commandants: Soldiers of Evil25. The Auschwitz Kommandant: Arthur Wilhelm Liebehenschel26. The Real Story of the Terezin Jewish Ghetto: I am a Star27. The Wannsee Conference: Planning the Final Solution28. America First29. Quiet Neighbors by Allan A. Ryan30. Action T 4: From “Euthanasia” to the Final Solution31. Hitler’s Niece and Historical Fiction32. An Unlikely Hero: Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally33. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: An Instructive Fable34. Unbroken: Forgiven but Never Forgotten35. The 1936 Berlin Olympics: The Boys in the Boat36. Manufacturing Death: Hell’s Cartel37. Prosecuting War Crimes: The Nuremberg Trial38. Kamikaze Warfare: Inferno39. Hateful Words: Nazi Propaganda40. A Cowardly Success: Bloodlands41. Planning a Soviet Holocaust: Stalin’s Last Crime42. Lebensraum: The Second World War43. The Siege of Leningrad and Genocide by Starvation44. The Murderous Einsatzgruppen (Task Forces)45. Poland’s Plight: Gustaw Herling’s A World Apart46. Children of the War Years: Witnesses of War47. Sophie’s Choice: Holocaust Literature as Psychological Fiction48. An Incredible Tale of Survival: Alicia, My Story49. Revealing the Ugly Truth: The Holocaust in Romania50. A Romanian Hero: The Memoirs of Wilhelm Filderman51. Ion Antonescu: Hitler’s Forgotten Ally52. Anti-Semitism in Romania: The Journal of Mihai Sebastian53. Heroism in Hell: Resistance, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising54. Privilege and Persecution: The Diary of Mary Berg55. Janusz Korczak: The King of the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto56. The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of Survival in Warsaw57. Trapped in the Lodz Ghetto: The Cage58. The Book Thief: Holocaust Literature as Best Seller59. The Forgotten Holocaust: The Rape of Nanking60. A Cataclismic War: Postwar, a History of Europe since 194561. The Cultural Revolution and The Great Leap Forward62. The Killing Fields: Genocide in Cambodia63. Genocide in Rwanda: Me Against My Brother64. North Korea’s State of Terror: Nothing to Envy65. Yad Vashem: “A Place and a Name” of Remembrance66. An Impossible Conflict in Gaza: Rock the Casbah67. Anti-Semitism Today and the Assault on Democratic Values68. Would you Forgive the Nazi Perpetrator? The Sunflower69. Could the Holocaust Happen Again? Nazi Hunter70. Ethics Above PoliticsConclusion: Judaic Studies and the Holocaust via ReviewsBibliographyAbout the Author
In this well researched and very well written book about the Holocaust, author Claudia Moscovici reveals the best Holocaust authors who illustrate the events of the Shoah from personal experiences or research. She adds vivid descriptions to the historical events of the Nazi genocide narrative in successive European countries. . . . This is a book that adroitly shines historical light upon examples of our darkest times. In terms of historical fact and our greatest failure of ethics, it serves well as a teaching aid in middle and secondary schools. The author’s clarity demarcates the terror, agony and murder of millions of innocent families at the hands of those willing to negate their potential as human beings. . . . Holocaust Memories takes the reader (and student) on a mesmerizing tale of dread and horror. Yet it also brings a clear message of hope. This outstanding book can play a critical role in teaching the world’s children how to confront morality and how to respect others who are dissimilar.— New York Journal of Books
The screen that portrays the horrors of the twentieth Century is fading more rapidly than its audience can bear. Claudia Moscovici’s book will go far to help keep it lit longer.— Joseph Polak, Author of After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring, Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award
This book fills a present and mounting need for all readers interested in the Holocaust, including scholars and teachers. With the literature about that unprecedented crime becoming steadily more extensive, Claudia Moscovici's work offers a valuable and well-written guide to key works on various aspects of the Holocaust or on its entire history.— Guy Stern, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Wayne State University, Director, International Institute of the Righteous Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Center
Holocaust Memories is a morally urgent book, an encyclopedia of mourning, remembrance, and compassion, an invitation and a behest to keep memory alive and to resist unwaveringly any form of authoritarian temptation. It is particularly recommended to high school and college students, but also to a general audience. I learned a lot from it and I am convinced that many others will share my superlative endorsement.— Vladimir Tismaneanu, Professor of Politics, University of Maryland (College Park)
A well-written series of book reviews that can be used as a solid tool for those who want to study the Holocaust.— Radu Ioanid, author of The Holocaust in Romania and The Ransom of the Jews
Intended for a wide public and a new generation of readers, this bold and ambitious book forms an overview of the Holocaust from a myriad of sources—historical, philosophical, or literary works and films. More than sixty lucid and concise essays (usually two or three pages long) introduce various circumstances of human cruelty in Germany, Hungary, Romania, and Soviet Russia, but also in Cambodia and Rwanda. These focused readings comprise an invaluable source book for anyone seeking to understand the horrors of totalitarian regimes, constantly reminding us that moral courage must prevail over politics.— Edward K. Kaplan, Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, Brandeis University, author a two-volume biography of Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972)
Holocaust Memories provides a wealth of reviews and summaries of major memoirs, histories, biographies, novels and films related to the Holocaust. In the breadth of its coverage it provides an important and much-needed resource for teachers and students of all ages who are exploring the record of a tragedy so extensive and horrific it defies understanding. In bringing together testimonials and perspectives from many different voices and a range of genres, Moscovici provides a nuanced and multi-faceted approach that will allow readers to begin to register the unfathomable pain and loss brought about by the Nazis’ decimation of Jews, Gypsies, Poles and other groups. The clarity and vividness of the writing make the reviews intense, each capturing a sense of the impact of the source being described. And since the anthology also covers works about other genocides, such as those in China, Cambodia, and Rwanda, it underscores that genocide is not just a matter of history; it is sadly also a matter of the present.— Natalie McKnight, Dean and Professor of Humanities, The College of General Studies, Boston University
The Holocaust is much more than a historical event; it is a continuing story playing out in the lives of survivors, their descendants, their communities and entire societies. It is a seminal presence that provokes reflection and alerts us to the risks of falling into the abyss of inhuman depravity—of what could happen because it did happen. In Holocaust Memories, Moscovici has given us a panoramic view of the Shoah and framed it with other modern genocides. This book is at once much broader than virtually any other work I know, deeper than most in its gentle insistence that we persist in wrestling with the most fundamental moral questions. Those questions are as pertinent today as they were in 1945. Holocaust Memories will be an invaluable resource as I write my own memoirs as a survivor. — Martin Heisler, Professor Emeritus of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park