Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Jews in Nazi Berlin Jews in Nazi Berlin Beate Meyer Though many of the details of Jewish life under Hitler are familiar, historical accounts rarely afford us a real sense of what it was like for Jews and their families to live in the shadow of Nazi Ge… OL15171823W
Holocaust Holocaust Deborah Dwork This book is a dramatic account that reshapes the way we think and talk about the greatest crime in history. Unrivaled in reach and scope, Holocaust illuminates the long march of events, from the Mid… OL15831130W
Foundational pasts Foundational pasts Alon Confino "This book proposes to understand the Holocaust by looking at Nazi and German culture and sensibilities that made the persecution and extermination imaginable, possible, and conceivable. It criticall… OL15936448W
Antisemitismus in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Antisemitismus in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Werner Bergmann 328 p. : 21 cm OL1713514W
Weimar Germany Weimar Germany Paul Bookbinder The Weimar Republic, from 1919 to 1933, was a time of political violence, economic crisis, generational and gender tension, and cultural experiment and change. Despite these major issues, the Republi… OL17189130W
Generation exodus Generation exodus Walter Laqueur "Some half a million Jews lived in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. Over the next decade, thousands would flee. Among these refugees, teens and young adults formed a remarkable generation. … OL18391504W
Why?: Explaining the Holocaust Why?: Explaining the Holocaust Peter Hayes xvi, 412 pages : 25 cm OL19169117W
Hitler, the Germans, and the final solution Hitler, the Germans, and the final solution Ian Kershaw The writings are arranged in three sections—Hitler and the Final Solution, popular opinion and the Jews in Nazi Germany, and the Final Solution in historiography—and Kershaw provides an introduction … OL1924189W
Life and death in the Third Reich Life and death in the Third Reich Peter Fritzsche "[...] Peter Fritzsche deciphers the puzzle of Nazism's ideological grip. Its basic appeal lay in the Volksgemeinschaft -- a "people's community" that appealed to Germans to be part of a great projec… OL19884002W
Bambi's Jewish roots and other essays on German-Jewish culture Bambi's Jewish roots and other essays on German-Jewish culture Paul Reitter "Paul Reitter's scholarship on German-Jewish culture has won acclaim in both specialized journals and forums like the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, Bookforum, and the TLS, whi… OL20030488W
Inside the Antisemitic Mind Inside the Antisemitic Mind Monika Schwarz-Friesel Antisemitism is on the rise in Europe, sometimes manifest in violent acts against Jews, but more commonly noticeable in everyday discourse. This innovative empirical study examines written examples o… OL20931683W
Between dignity and despair Between dignity and despair Marion A. Kaplan Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. This de… OL2743405W
Scholem, Arendt, Klemperer Scholem, Arendt, Klemperer Steven E. Aschheim "Through an examination of the diaries and letters of three extraordinary and distinctive German-Jewish intellectuals - Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and Victor Klemperer - Steven E. Aschheim illum… OL29046W
The Pity of It All The Pity of It All Amos Elon "As it's usually told, the story of the German Jews starts at the end, with their tragic demise in Hitler's Reich. Now, in this important work of historical restoration, Amos Elon takes us back to th… OL2928520W
Safe Among the Germans Safe Among the Germans Ruth Gay "This book tells the story of why a quarter-million Jews, survivors of death camps and forced labor, sought refuge in Germany after World War II. Those who had ventured to return to Poland after libe… OL3260837W
The Butcher's Tale The Butcher's Tale Helmut Walser Smith "In 1900, in Konitz, a small town in the eastern reaches of the German Empire, a Christian boy was found brutually dismembered, the blood seemingly drained from his limbs. The crime resembled the tra… OL3480487W
Good neighbors, bad times Good neighbors, bad times Mimi Schwartz Mimi Schwartz grew up on milkshakes and hamburgers—and her father’s boyhood stories. She rarely took the stories seriously. What was a modern American teenager supposed to make of these accounts of a… OL5365160W
Portraits of Our Past Portraits of Our Past Emily C. Rose "Author Emily Rose grew up looking at two large oil portraits hanging above the fireplace mantel in her grandfather's home in New York City. Her Jewish ancestors had immigrated to America from German… OL7832389W