Rethinking the Holocaust (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Yehuda Bauer
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1933-1945
- Setting: Germany and elsewhere in Europe
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, 1940’s, 1930’s, Anti-Semitism, Germany or German people, Holocaust, Jewish, Genocide
- Locales: Germany
Born in the Czech city of Prague, Yehuda Bauer escaped the Holocaust when he and his parents immigrated to Palestine in 1939. Nevertheless, Nazi Germany’s destruction of European Jewry marks his life, for after serving in Israel’s 1948-1949 War of Independence and completing his doctoral studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, this Jewish scholar became a leading historian whose work does much to define Holocaust studies.
Bauer’s book is not a history of the Holocaust but “an attempt to rethink categories and issues that arise out of the contemplation of that watershed...
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