Rethinking the Holocaust /

Bauer, Yehuda, 1926-2024

Rethinking the Holocaust / Yehuda Bauer. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001. - xvi, 335 pages ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-319) and index.

What was the Holocaust?
Is the Holocaust explicable?
Comparisons with other genocides
Overall interpretations: Zygmunt Bauman, Jeffrey Herf, Goetz Aly
Overall interpretations: Daniel J. Goldhagen, John Weiss, Saul Friedländer
Jewish resistance
myth or reality?
Unarmed resistance and other responses
The problem of gender: the case of Gisi Fleischmann
Theology, or God the surgeon
Rescue attempts: the case of the Auschwitz protocols
From the Holocaust to the state of Israel
Appendix: Speech to the Bundestag

Drawing on research from various historians, the author offers opinions on how to define and explain the Holocaust, comparison to other genocides, and the connection between the Holocaust and the establishment of Israel.

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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography.
Holocausto judío (1939-1945) --Historiografía
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.
Holocausto judío (1939-1945) --Influencia

D 804.348 / B344r 2001

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