Ivan R. Dee
Pages: 376
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Trim: 5¾ x 8¾
978-1-56663-052-8 • Paperback • March 1994 • $16.95 • (£12.99)
Ronnie S. Landau is former educational director of the Spiro Institute for the Study of Jewish History and Culture. Founding director of the British Holocaust Educational Project, he writes widely on modern Jewish history and is now head of humanities at the City Literary Institute, London.
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: The Historical, Educational and Moral Significance of the Holocaust
Part II: The Background and Context
Chapter 2: Survey of Jewish History: c.300 B.C. to c.1700
Chapter 3: The European Jew and the Modern World
Chapter 4: Nazism and Modern Germany: From National Unification to Hitler's Accession to Power
Part III: The Holocaust: A History
Chapter 5: Nazi Germany, 1933–1938: Anti-Jewish Policy and Legislation
Chapter 6: Nazi Europe, 1938–1941: From Kristallnacht to Ghettoization in the East
Chapter 7: The Holocaust, 1941–1945: From Dehumanization to Annihilation
Part IV: Themes, Issues and Protagonists
Chapter 8: Perpetrators, Victims, and Bystanders
Chapter 9: The Jewish Question: Public Opinion in Nazi Germany
Chapter 10: The Aftermath and Impact of the Holocaust
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 (1933–1945)
Glossary of Basic Terms
Principal Characters
An achievement . . . without sacrificing its uniqueness or its universal implications. It is likely to become the model textbook.
— The American Spectator
Ideal for the general reader and students alike.
— The Jewish Chronicle, UK
A responsible and accessible survey . . . subtle yet lucid . . . most stimulating.
— Times Literary Supplement
Ronnie Landau has written a quite remarkable book.
— The Times (UK)
Landau comes as near as it is possible to making the Holocaust comprehensible. . . . Essential.
— Jewish Quarterly
Landau has assembled a heroic mass of documentation and offered a clear and concise analysis of the scale and effects of the Holocaust.
— The Tribune
An outstanding introduction, clearly and intelligently written, to the historical events of the Holocaust, and to the moral and psychological questions raised by it. In considering the painfully particular as well as the universal aspects of this enormous event, Landau helps the reader to confront it within the frame of human experience, on a level we can all understand.
— Margot Stern Strom, author of Facing History and Ourselves
A model approach, and the best short treatment in print
Intended both for general readers and for students and educators in history, psychology, literature, and the humanities