Holocaust Literature

SAUL S. FRIEDMAN is Professor of History at Youngstown State University, where he specializes in ancient and modern Middle Eastern studies, Jewish history, and the Holocaust. His books include No Haven for the Oppressed, Incident at Massena, Amcha: An Oral Testament of the Holocaust, Oberammergau Passion Play, Without Future: The Plight of Syrian Jewry (Praeger, 1989), and The Terezin Diary of Gonda Redlich (1992). He has also published numerous essays and book chapters and reviews in such journals as Midstream, Jewish Frontier, American Historical Review, National Review, Jewish Spectator, Chronicle Review, and Congress Monthly.

Over the past forty years, the term Holocaust has come to represent the deliberate campaign of extermination of Jews by the Nazis of Germany's Third Reich preceding and during World War II. Masses of edited documents and analytical material have been generated by Holocaust scholars, and some bibliographical and encyclopedic guides to the field are available. However, a student or researcher may be confounded by the abundance of publications and may lack the necessary background and endurance to sift the wheat from the chaff. The present volume has a two-fold purpose: to offer substantial analysis in intrinsic areas of study and to assess the relevant literature in each case.Major scholars and brilliant, less established historians from Israel, Canada, and the United States have contributed more than thirty essays complete with extensive reference lists in three broad divisions. The section on conceptual approaches to the Holocaust is composed of such topics as the rise of national socialism, biographies and interpretations of Hitler, concentration camps, post-Holocaust Jewish philosophies, and the righteous gentiles. Area studies deal with aspects of the Holocaust in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, the Balkans, France, Holland, Italy, and Spain, and with effects and reactions in Switzerland and Britain. Arab-German collaboration and American responses are also addressed. A third section takes up Holocaust subjects in education, belles lettres, and the arts, including diaries and memoirs, fiction, poetry, books for children, art, music, and films. Although the scholars all provide evaluative surveys of their subjects and related literature, each enjoyed considerable latitude in coverage and each presents his or her own views and selections, not all of which are shared by other contributors or the volume editor. The editor also provides an introduction and a final survey of major institutions and resources for Holocaust study. A significant reference tool, this volume will be consulted by researchers at all levels in university, public, secondary, and parochial school libraries and at religious institutions.

This massive compendium of Holocaust material encompasses three distinct categories: conceptual issues, regional studies, and the fine arts...The contributions of so many recognized scholars makes this an important reference tool. Library Journal

Foreword: The Fate of Holocaust Literature by Dennis KleinPrefaceConceptual Approaches to the HolocaustThe Major Texts of the Holocaust by Annette el-HayekThe Rise and Development of National Socialism in Germany by Reynold KoppelSelected Biographies and Interpretations of Hitler by Robert H. WhealeyThe Concentration Camps and Killing Centers of the Third Reich by Charles W. SydnorAsking Unanswerable Questions: A Biliographic Study of Post-Holocaust Jewish Philosophies by Rabbi Steven H. AdamsThe Church and the Holocaust by David A. RauschThe Righteous Gentiles by Leon W. WellsUnderstanding Motivations in the Holocaust by Eva FogelmanJewish Women in the Holocaust Resistance by Bea StadtlerThe Relationship of Genocide to Holocaust Studies by Nora LevinHolocaust Studies in Specific RegionsRelations between Jews and Poles During the Holocaust: New and Old Approaches in Polish Historiography by Shmuel KrakowskiThe Last Tragedy of the Shoah: The Jews of Hungary by Asher CohenThe Holocaust in Czechoslovakia: A Survey of the Literature by Saul S. FriedmanThe Ukrainian Halychyna Division: A Case History in Historical Revisionism by Sol LittmanApproaches to the Study of the Holocaust in the Balkans by Alexander KitroeffThe Holocaust in France by Sanford GutmanHolland and the Holocaust by Earl M. FriedmanItaly and the Holocaust by Alan CasselsThe Holocaust in Spain by John AxeSwitzerland and the Holocaust by Hebert HochhauserGreat Britain and the Holocaust by Monty Noam PenkowerThe Politics of Collaboration: A Historiography of Arab-German Relations, 1933-1945 by Jonathan FriedmanAmerican Response to the Holocaust, 1933-1945 by Jack FischelThe Holocaust in Education and the ArtsThe Holocaust in the School Textbooks of the Federal Republic of Germany by Walter RennHolocaust Diaries and Memoirs by Laurence KutlerThe Holocaust in Fiction by Harry James CargasThe Poetry of the Holocaust by Gloria YoungJuvenile and Youth Books about the Holocaust by Bea StadtlerThe Holocaust in Art by Nelly TollMusic of the Holocaust by Irene HeskesThe Holocaust as Seen in the Movies by Morris Zyrl and Saul S. FriedmanResources for Holocaust Study by Saul S. FriedmanIndexAbout the Contributors