The second edition of this book frames the Holocaust as a catastrophe emerging from varied international responses to the Jewish question during an age of global crisis and war. The chapters are arranged chronologically thematically and geographically reflecting how persecution responses and experience varied over time and place conveying a sense of the Holocaust’s complexity. Fully updated this edition incorporates the past decade’s scholarship concerning perpetrators victims and bystanders from political national and gendered perspectives. It also frames the Holocaust within the broader genocide perspective and within current debates on memory politics and causation. Global in approach and supported by images maps diverse voices and suggestions for further reading this is the ideal textbook for students of this catastrophic period in world history. |The Holocaust Europe the World and the Jews 1918-1945 | History
