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Record Nr.

UNINA9910392714103321

Titolo

Agency and the Holocaust : Essays in Honor of Debórah Dwork / / edited by Thomas Kühne, Mary Jane Rein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030389987

3030389987

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide, , 2731-5703

Disciplina

940.5318

940.903

Soggetti

Europe - History - 1492-

World War, 1939-1945

Judaism

History of Modern Europe

History of World War II and the Holocaust

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Part I: Youth and Identity -- 1. Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Prewar Poland as Holocaust Sources- Jeff Koerber -- 2. Saving Jewish Girls: A Case Study in Lidingö, Sweden- Beth Cohen -- Part II: Rescue and Relief -- 3. JDC's Relief Efforts and the Holocaust in Rzeszów County- Joanna Sliwa -- 4. "What for Godsake Shall I Do with the Hundreds of Table Napkins?" The Preservation of Czech-Jewish Life under Nazi Occupation- Ilana Offenberger -- 5. Eleanor Roosevelt and Refugees from the Holocaust: Beyond the Politics- Dottie Stone -- Part III: Gender Dynamics -- 6. Sexuality, Sexual Violence, and Sexual Barter in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Women's Camp- Sarah M. Cushman -- 7. "We Are All Witnesses": Eva Reichmann and the Wiener Library's Eyewitness Accounts Collection- Christine Schmidt -- Part IV: Ambiguities of Perpetration -- 8. Genocidal and Anti-Genocidal Ethics in Fascist Italy during the Holocaust- Alexis Herr -- 9. The Restitution of Jewish Jobs in the Aftermath of the Antonescu Regime- Ştefan Cristian Ionescu -- Part V: Cultures of Memory -- 10. Making Hungary



Great Again: Mass Violence, State Building, and the Ironies of Global Holocaust Memory- Raz Segal -- 11. Rebuilding and Renewing Viennese Jewish Identity after the Holocaust- Elizabeth Anthony -- 12. Making Present the Past: Canada's St. Louis Apology and Canadian Jewry's Pursuit of Refugee Justice- Adara Goldberg.

Sommario/riassunto

The book assembles case studies on the human dimension of the Holocaust as illuminated in the academic work of preeminent Holocaust scholar Deborah Dwork, the founding director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, home of the first doctoral program focusing solely on the Holocaust and other genocides. Written by fourteen of her former doctoral students, its chapters explore how agency, a key category in recent Holocaust studies and the work of Dwork, works in a variety of different 'small' settings - such as a specific locale or region, an organization, or a group of individuals.