Lessons and Legacies IX: Memory, History, and Responsibility: Reassessments of the Holocaust, Implications for the Future.

DETAILS: fresh attractive copy, fine condition blue cloth with printed cover titles. ROTH, JOHN K. / PETROPOULOS, JONATHAN / RAPAPORT, LYNN, ed. . Lessons and Legacies IX: Memory, History, and Responsibility: Reassessments of the Holocaust, Implications for the Future. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2010, xxi, 332pp., . Series: Lessons & Legacies, 9 – Memory, History, and Responsibility: Reassessments of the Holocaust, Implications for the Future contains the highlights from the ninth "Lessons and Legacies" conference. The conference, held during the height of the genocide in Darfur, sought to reexamine how the darkness of the Holocaust continues to shadow human existence more than sixty years after World War II left the Third Reich in ruins. - The collection opens with Saul Friedländer’s call for interdisciplinary approaches to Holocaust research. The essays that follow draw on the latest methodologies in the fields of history, literature, philosophy, religion, film, and gender studies, among others. - Together both the leading scholars of the Holocaust and the next generation of scholars engage the difficult reality—as raised by editors Petropoulos, Rapaport, and Roth in their introduction—that the legacies of the Holocaust have not proved sufficient in intervening against human-made mass death, let alone preventing or eliminating it.CONTENTS: Foreword -- Jonathan Petropoulos, Lynn Rapaport, and John K. Roth - Introduction -- Saul Friedländer - Prologue -- I. Memory -- John K. Roth - Only in the Dark: Seeing Through the Gloom -- Christian Goeschel - Suicides of German Jews During the Holocaust -- Simone Gigliotti - Deportation Transit and Captive Bodies: Rethinking Holocaust Witnessing -- Michael Allen - The Atomization of Auschwitz: Is History Really That Contingent? -- II. History -- Martin Dean - Typology of Ghettos: Five Types of Ghettos Under German Administration -- David Silberklang - Defining the Ghettos: Jewish and German Perspectives in the Lublin District -- Alexander V. Prusin - Jewish Ghettos in the Generalbezirk Kiew, 1941- 1943 -- Rachel Iskov - Jewish Refugees from the Surrounding Communities in the Warsaw and Lódz Ghettos -- Tim Cole - Contesting and Compromising Ghettoization, Hungary 1944 -- III. Responsibility -- Jonathan Petropoulos - Prince zu Waldeck und Pyrmont: A Career in the SS and Its Murderous Consequences -- Susanna Schrafstetter - When Perpetrators Compensate Victims: Karl Hettlage and the Politics of Indemnification in West Germany -- Suzanne Brown-Fleming - The Vatican and the Nazi Movement, 1922-1939: New Sources and Unexpected Findings on the Vatican's Response to Reichskristallnacht -- Lissa Skitolsky - Suspending Judgment for the Sake of Knowledge: Agamben's Approach to Auschwitz -- IV. Post-Holocaust Issues -- Michael Meng - Did Poles Oppose or Collaborate with the Nazis? Problems with Narrating the Holocaust in Poland -- Paul B. Miller - Just Like the Jews: Contending Victimization in the Former Yugoslavia -- Jerry Fowler - Equivocal Talismans: The UN Genocide Convention and the Responsibility to Protect -- V. Epilogue: Compiled and introduced by John K. Roth John K. Roth - Ethics During and After the Holocaust -- Christopher R. Browning - Encountering Ethical Dilemmas in Writing the History of the Holocaust -- Peter Hayes - Ethics and Corporate History in Nazi Germany -- Claudia Koonz - Taking Jean Améry's "Grudge" Seriously -- Rebecca Wittmann - Torture and the Ethical Implications of the Holocaust -- Berel Lang - Two Ethical Issues -- John K. Roth - Postscript -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Notes on Contributors. ISBN 9780810126381. …