LEADER 03618nam 2200649 450 001 9910464201903321 005 20210507233920.0 010 $a0-300-19046-8 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300190465 035 $a(CKB)3710000000103065 035 $a(EBL)3421401 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001184833 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12550118 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001184833 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11197097 035 $a(PQKB)10376479 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421401 035 $a(DE-B1597)486018 035 $a(OCoLC)878149165 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300190465 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421401 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10856651 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL587490 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000103065 100 $a20140413h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auruzu---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA world without Jews $ethe Nazi imagination from persecution to genocide /$fAlon Confino 210 1$aNew Haven, Connecticut :$cYale University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (304 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a0-300-18854-4 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tOne. A New Beginning by Burning Books --$tTwo. Origins, Eternal and Local --$tThree. Imagining the Jews as Everywhere and Already Gone --$tFour. Burning the Book of Books --$tFive. The Coming of the Flood --$tSix. Imagining a Genesis --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tIllustration Credits --$tIndex 330 $aWhy 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. 606 $aJews$zGermany$xHistory$y1933-1945 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$zGermany 606 $aJews$xPersecutions$zGermany 607 $aGermany$xHistory$y1933-1945 607 $aGermany$xPolitics and government$y1933-1945 607 $aGermany$xEthnic relations$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aJews$xHistory 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 615 0$aJews$xPersecutions 676 $a940.53/18 700 $aConfino$b Alon$0850800 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464201903321 996 $aA world without Jews$92469816 997 $aUNINA