Jewish histories of the Holocaust : new transnational approaches / edited by Norman J. W. Goda ; Omer Bartov [and fifteen others], contributors.

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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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CHOICE Review

This collection of historiographical essays endeavors to introduce specialists and general readers to the polyphony of Holocaust writings. The volume consists of 15 chapters organized into five sections: theoretical considerations, approaches to Jewish leadership, uses of testimony and experience, self-help and resistance, and aftermath-politics, aesthetics, and memory. In his introduction, editor Goda argues that during the last 20 years, Holocaust history has become more Jewish and that the chapters, each in its own way, represent the road signs of that change. In the new history, research has been redirected from the perpetrator to the victims, and the goal is to find the authentic Jewish voice. As a consequence, personal diaries, note books, and memoirs have gained a status that traditional historians have not previously imparted to them. Good index and select bibliography. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries. --Andrew Ezergailis, Ithaca College