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Bauman's most famous book, Modernity and the Holocaust, is an attempt to give a full account of the dangers of fear of "the stranger".Drawing upon Hannah Arendt and Theodor Adorno's books on totalitarianism and the Enlightenment, Bauman developed the argument that the Holocaust should not simply be considered to be an event in Jewish history, nor a regression to pre-modern barbarism.
Richard David Breitman (born 1947) is an American historian best known for his study of The Holocaust. [citation needed]Richard Breitman is an American historian who has written extensively on modern German history, the Holocaust, American immigration and refugee policy, and intelligence during and after World War 2.
The Holocaust (/ ˈ h ɒ l ə k ɔː s t / ⓘ), [1] known in Hebrew as the Shoah (שואה), was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.
The Black Book of Soviet Jewry; The Black Book: The Nazi Crime Against the Jewish People; Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning; Bringing the Dark Past to Light; Buried by the Times; The Business of Genocide
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. New York: Basic Books, 1986. Lindemann, Albert. Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Lipstadt, Deborah. Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933–1945. New York: Free Press, 1986.
Genocide studies is an academic field of study that researches genocide.Genocide became a field of study in the mid-1940s, with the work of Raphael Lemkin, who coined genocide and started genocide research, and its primary subjects were the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust; [1] the Holocaust was the primary subject matter of genocide studies, starting off as a side field of Holocaust ...
Thomas Kühne's early work inquired into the political culture of Prussia, the hegemonic federal state of Imperial Germany (1867-1918). His dissertation, published in 1994 as Dreiklassenwahlrecht und Wahlkultur in Preussen 1867-1914 [Three-Class Voting System and Electoral Culture in Prussia, 1867-1914] and praised as a milestone in party and election history, elucidates why the Prussian three ...
The story of his family's shared survival during the Holocaust is told in False Papers (University of Illinois Press, 2000), which was a finalist for the 2001 National Jewish Book Award. Among his other books are, Revolution and Genocide: On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust (University of Chicago Press, 1992/6).