Jewish Histories of the Holocaust New Transnational Approaches [Hardcover]

For many years, histories of the Holocaust focused on its perpetrators, and only recently have more scholars begun to consider in detail the experiences of victims and survivors, as well as the documents they left behind. This volume contains new research from internationally established scholars. It provides an introduction to and overview of Jewish narratives of the Holocaust. The essays include new considerations of sources ranging from diaries and oral testimony to the hidden Oyneg Shabbes archive of the Warsaw Ghetto; arguments regarding Jewish narratives and how they fit into the larger fields of Holocaust and Genocide studies; and new assessments of Jewish responses to mass murder ranging from ghetto leadership to resistance and memory.

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Introduction
Norman J.W. Goda

PART I: THEORETICAL OVERVIEWS

Chapter 1.The Jewish Dimension of the Holocaust in Dire Straits? Current Challenges of Interpretation and Scope
Dan Michman

Chapter 2.The Holocaust as Regional History: Explaining theBloodlands
Timothy Snyder

PART II: NEW APPROACHES TO JEWISH LEADERSHIP

Chapter 3.An Overwhelming Presence: Reflections on Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski and His Place in Our Understanding of the A?dz Ghetto
Gordon Horwitz

Chapter 4.Similarity and Differences: A Comparative Study between the Ghettos in BiaBystok and Kielce
Sara Bender

PART III: DOCUMENTATION, TESTIMONY, AND EXPERIENCE

Chapter 5.Diaries, Testimony, and Jewish Histories of the Holocaust