Professor McBroom argues that the events of the Holocaust do not require special, unique or extreme explanations. Rather the behavior of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders can be understood and explained by established principles of social science. As such, events like those of the Holocaust are natural phenomena and have not only occurred in ......
Jewish Forced Labor and the Quest for Compensation
As a U.S. war crimes investigator during World War II, Benjamin B. Ferencz participated in the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. Returning to Germany after the war to help bring perpetrators of war crimes to justice, he remained to direct restitution programs for Nazi victims. In Less Than Slaves Ferencz describes the painstaking efforts ......
Pope Pius XII's alleged silence in the face of the destruction of the European Jews during World War II has been the subject of a fierce controversy that has continued unabated ever since Rolf Hochhuth's ""The Deputy"" made the charge in 1963. Numerous critics have accused Pius of everything from deliberate anti-Semitism to collusion with the Nazi ......
Where was God during the Holocaust? And where has God been since? Holocaust Theology provides a panoramic survey of the writings of more than one hundred leading Jewish and Christian thinkers on these profound theological problems.
Where was God during the Holocaust? And where has God been since? Holocaust Theology provides a panoramic survey of the writings of more than one hundred leading Jewish and Christian thinkers on these profound theological problems.
This title reclaims the distinctive culture of thousands of Jewish communities lost during the Holocaust. It chronicles the people, habits and customs of more than 6500 thriving Jewish communities. It clarifies locations of settlements based on documents and maps found in recently opened archives.
A study of the efforts of the Warner Bros film studio to promote anti-Nazi activity before the outbreak of World War II. Through a score of films produced in the 1930s and early-1940s the studio marshalled its forces to influence the American conscience and push towards intervention in the war.
An analysis of the implications of the Holocaust for interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. The contributors discuss theoretical and methodological considerations emerging from the Shoah and demonstrate the importance of these considerations in the reading of specific biblical texts.
An analysis of the implications of the Holocaust for interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. The contributors discuss theoretical and methodological considerations emerging from the Shoah and demonstrate the importance of these considerations in the reading of specific biblical texts.
