New Books in Genocide Studies
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Francine Hirsch, "Soviet Judgement at Nuremberg...
How did an authoritarian regime help lay the cornerstones of human rights and international law?
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Sabine Hildebrandt, "The Anatomy of Murder: Eth...
Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians...
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Stephan Talty, "The Good Assassin" (HMH, 2020)
Talty tells the untold story of an Israeli spy’s epic journey to bring the notorious Butcher of Latvia to justice—a case that altered the fates of all ex-Nazis...
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Adam Brown, "Judging 'Privileged' Jews: Holocau...
Brown engages with issues that are fundamental to present-day attempts to understand the Holocaust and deeply relevant to reflections on human nature...
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Vincent Bevins, "The Jakarta Method" (Public Af...
The Jakarta Method joins a growing body of scholarly work on what some call a “political genocide” and what a 1968 CIA report deemed “one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century”.
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John Roosa, "Buried Histories: The Anticommunis...
We don’t have exact numbers, but somewhere between 500,000 and a million were killed...
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Gabriel Finder, "Justice behind the Iron Curtai...
Finder and Prusin offer comprehensive account of the trials of Nazi perpetrators conducted in liberated and postwar Poland....
80 min
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David Slucki et al., "Laughter After: Humor and...
This book examines what is at stake in deploying humor in representing the Holocaust...
69 min
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John K. Roth, "Sources of Holocaust Insight: Le...
John reflects on the people who have taught him, in all the different ways teaching can happen, and the lessons that he’s learned over decades of thinking and writing about the Holocaust...
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A. D. Crosby and M. B. Lykes, "In Beyond Repair...
The authors draw on eight years of feminist participatory action research conducted with fifty-four Q’eqchi’, Kaqchikel, Chuj, and Mam women to explore Mayan women’s agency in their search for truth, justice, and reparation...
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Alexander Gendler, "Khurbm 1914-1922: Prelude t...
Gendler offers an extensive collection of eye-witness testimonies and official communications revealing the genocidal destruction of Jewish life by the Russian army during World War I....
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Joyce E. Leader, "From Hope to Horror: Diplomac...
Among the many books that were published in the past year about the Rwandan Genocide, Joyce E. Leader's new book stands out...
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Stanislav Kulchytsky, "The Famine of 1932-1933 ...
Kulchytsky presents a meticulous research that unveils the mechanism of the Holodomor as a man-made famine...
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
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Björn Krondorfer, "The Holocaust and Masculinit...
In recent decades, scholarship has turned to the role of gender in the Holocaust, but rarely has it critically investigated the experiences of men as gendered beings..
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Alex Jeffrey, "The Edge of Law: Legal Geographi...
What happens when a court tries to become a “new” court? What happens to the many artifacts of its history—previous laws and jurisprudence, the building that it inhabits, the people who weave in and out of it?
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
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A Discussion with Kelly McFall about Using "Rea...
The "Reacting" technique asks students to play the roles of historical actors and to re-enact particular events and situations. The instructors using the method have had great success...
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Peter Fritzsche, "Hitler's First Hundred Days: ...
Fritzsche offers an extraordinary examination of how, in just a few months, Germans got used to living around, among, and, mostly, in unity with, Nazis...
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
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Nancy Sinkoff, "From Left to Right: Lucy S. Daw...
Sinkoff offers s the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the field that is now called "Holocaust Studies"..
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Paul Hanebrink, "A Specter Haunting Europe: The...
Hanebrink shows how Fascists, Conservatives and Nazis imagined Jewish Bolsheviks as enemies who crossed borders to subvert order from within and bring destructive ideas from abroad...
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Great Books: Hillary Chute on Art Spiegelman's ...
Art Spiegelman's Maus is the story of an American cartoonist's efforts to uncover and record his father's story of survival of the Holocaust...
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Steven Ross and Wolf Gruner, "New Perspectives ...
On November 9, 1938, the Nazis launched a pogrom against German Jews...Kristallnacht.
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
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