New Books in Genocide Studies
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Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann, "Spain, the...
An interview with Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann
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Natasha Zaretsky, "Acts of Repair: Justice, Tru...
An interview with Natasha Zaretsky
70 min
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L. Hilton and A. Patt, "Understanding and Teach...
An interview with Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt
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Carol Rittner and John K. Roth, "Advancing Holo...
An interview with Carol Rittner and John K. Roth
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Leslie Waters, "Borders on the Move: Territoria...
An interview with Leslie Waters
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Anna Hájková, "The Last Ghetto: An Everyday His...
An interview with Anna Hájková
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Alex Alvarez, "Unstable Ground: Climate Change,...
Alvarez looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential to provoke some of the most troubling crimes against humanity...
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Paul Morrow, "Unconscionable Crimes: How Norms ...
The moral horrors of genocide and mass atrocity lead us to wonder how such things are even possible....
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John K. Roth, "The Failures of Ethics: Confront...
Absent the overriding of moral sensibilities, if not the collapse or collaboration of ethical traditions, the Holocaust, genocide, and other mass atrocities could not have happened,,,
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V. Nesfield and P. Smith, "The Struggle for Und...
An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel’s writings, from his earliest works to his final novels. Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was one of the most important literary voices to emerge from the Holocaust...
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N. Chare and D. Williams, "Testimonies of Resis...
Chare and Williams assemble careful investigations into how the Sonderkommando have been represented-by themselves and by others-both during and after the Holocaust.,.,
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Bernice Lerner, "All the Horrors of War: A Jewi...
Lerner describes their lives – one of them her mother, the other one of the people who helped save her – and how they intersected when British forces liberated Bergen-Belsen in April 1945...
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Alexis Wick, "The Red Sea In Search of Lost Spa...
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Eric Weiner, "The Geography of Genius: Lessons ...
Living, as we do, in a time in which a U.S. president anoints himself “a very stable genius”, we are particularly appreciative of Eric Weiner, a former foreign correspondent for NPR who writes with humility and humor, as he brings us along with him on his travels to times and places that produced genius...
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William L. Patterson, "We Charge Genocide: The ...
It has been nearly 70 years since William Patterson and Paul Roberson when before the UN and charged the US government with genocide...
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Learning from Rwanda: How 100 Days of Mass Kill...
An interview with Philip Drew
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David Livingstone Smith, "On Inhumanity: Dehuma...
Smith takes an unflinching look at the mechanisms of the mind that encourage us to see someone as less than human...
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Learning from Rwanda: How 100 Days of Mass Kill...
An interview with Philip Drew
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T. P. Kaplan and W. Gruner, "Resisting Persecut...
In 20 years of studying the Holocaust, it didn’t occurr to me that German officials might, when petitioned by German Jews or by Germans advocating for German Jews, change their minds....
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Carolyn J. Dean, "The Moral Witness: Trials and...
Dean offers the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West...
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Rafael Medoff, "The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Fra...
Roosevelt could have bombed the camps and saved Jews. Why didn't he? It's a hard question....
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Robert G. Boatright and Valerie Sperling, "Trum...
How did the Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns affect other elections in 2016? How did the use of gender stereotypes and insulting references to women in the presidential campaign influence the way House and Senate candidates campaigned?
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David Livingstone Smith, "On Inhumanity: Dehuma...
Smith analyzes what dehumanization is, why are we prone to dehumanize, and how we might resist dehumanizing others...
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Richard Breitman, "The Journal of Holocaust and...
"The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies" is turning twenty-five...
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Nick Estes, "Our History is the Future" (Verso,...
This second interview focuses more on a genocide studies reading of Dr. Estes’ book, raising questions about the history of genocide against Indigenous peoples, as well as Indigenous resistance and survival...
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