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The Nazi Holocaust

Ronnie S. Landau

The Nazi Holocaust is an important breakthrough in the struggle to understand this shattering event. By shunning simplistic explanations, Landau seeks to mediate between the 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—his book is a model text, brief but surprisingly comprehensive.
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Ivan R. Dee
Pages: 376 • Trim: 5¾ x 8¾
978-1-56663-052-8 • Paperback • March 1994 • $16.95 • (£12.99)
Subjects: History / World, History / General, History / Europe / General
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

The Nazi Holocaust

Cover Image
Paperback
Summary
Summary
  • The Nazi Holocaust is an important breakthrough in the struggle to understand this shattering event. By shunning simplistic explanations, Landau seeks to mediate between the 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—his book is a model text, brief but surprisingly comprehensive.
Details
Details
  • Ivan R. Dee
    Pages: 376 • Trim: 5¾ x 8¾
    978-1-56663-052-8 • Paperback • March 1994 • $16.95 • (£12.99)
    Subjects: History / World, History / General, History / Europe / General
Author
Author
  • 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.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • 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
Reviews
Reviews
  • 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


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  • 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

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