03805nam 2200685 450 991081891410332120221223214423.00-300-19046-810.12987/9780300190465(CKB)3710000000103065(EBL)3421401(SSID)ssj0001184833(PQKBManifestationID)12550118(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001184833(PQKBWorkID)11197097(PQKB)10376479(MiAaPQ)EBC3421401(DE-B1597)486018(OCoLC)878149165(DE-B1597)9780300190465(Au-PeEL)EBL3421401(CaPaEBR)ebr10856651(CaONFJC)MIL587490(MiAaPQ)EBC7021913(Au-PeEL)EBL7021913(EXLCZ)99371000000010306520221223h20142014 uy 0enguruzu---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA world without Jews the Nazi imagination from persecution to genocide /Alon ConfinoNew Haven, Connecticut :Yale University Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (304 pages)Includes index.0-300-18854-4 Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-267) and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Introduction --One. A New Beginning by Burning Books --Two. Origins, Eternal and Local --Three. Imagining the Jews as Everywhere and Already Gone --Four. Burning the Book of Books --Five. The Coming of the Flood --Six. Imagining a Genesis --Epilogue --Notes --Illustration Credits --IndexWhy exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by historians in their large-scale assessments of how and why the Holocaust occurred. In this gripping new analysis, Alon Confino draws on an array of archives across three continents to propose a penetrating new assessment of one of the central moral problems of the twentieth century. To a surprising extent, Confino demonstrates, the mass murder of Jews during the war years was powerfully anticipated in the culture of the prewar years.   The author shifts his focus away from the debates over what the Germans did or did not know about the Holocaust and explores instead how Germans came to conceive of the idea of a Germany without Jews. He traces the stories the Nazis told themselves-where they came from and where they were heading-and how those stories led to the conclusion that Jews must be eradicated in order for the new Nazi civilization to arise. The creation of this new empire required that Jews and Judaism be erased from Christian history, and this was the inspiration-and justification-for Kristallnacht. As Germans imagined a future world without Jews, persecution and extermination became imaginable, and even justifiable.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)GermanyJewsPersecutionsGermanyJewsGermanyHistory1933-1945GermanyPolitics and government1933-1945GermanyHistory1933-1945GermanyEthnic relationsHistoryHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)JewsPersecutionsJewsHistory940.5318HIS043000HIS022000REL040030HIS014000bisacshConfino Alon1665726MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818914103321A world without Jews4024519UNINA