Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume XIII: The Fate of the European Jews, 1939-1945: Continuity or Contingency? (Studies in Contemporary Jewry)

Was the Holocaust a natural product of a long German history of Anti-Semitism? Or were the Nazi policies simply a wild mutation of history, not necessarily connected to the past? Or does the truth lie somewhere in between? This latest volume in the acclaimed Studies in Contemporary Jewry series, edited by internationally known scholars at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, presents essays on the origins of the Holocaust. The works in this volume are diverse in scope and opinion, ranging from general philosophical discourses to detailed analyses of specific events, and often reflecting the divergent ideologies and methods of the contributors. But each adds to the whole, and the result is a fascinating panorama that is sure to be indispensable to all students and scholars of the subject. Contents......Page 10 Symposium: The Fate of the European Jews, 1939–1945: Continuity or Contingency?......Page 16 Some Introductory Comments......Page 18 Continuities, Discontinuities and Contingencies of the Holocaust......Page 24 The Camps: Eastern, Western, Modern......Page 45 Radical Historical Discontinuity: Explaining the Holocaust......Page 56 Forced Emigration, War, Deportation and Holocaust......Page 71 Auschwitz: New Perspectives on the Final Solution......Page 89 Memory and Method: Variance in Holocaust Narrations......Page 99 What Are the Contexts for German Antisemitism? Some Thoughts on the Origins of Nazism, 1800–1945......Page 115 The Italian Racial Laws, 1938–1943: A Reevaluation......Page 148 The Dreyfus Affair in Vichy France: Past and Present in French Political Culture......Page 168 Ukrainian Collaboration in the Extermination of the Jews During the Second World War: Sorting Out the Long-Term and Conjunctural Factors......Page 185 Beyond Condemnation, Apologetics and Apologies: On the Complexity of Polish Behavior Toward the Jews During the Second World War......Page 205 Understanding the Jewish Dimension of the Holocaust......Page 240 Essay......Page 266 The Origins of the Myth of the "New Jew": The Zionist Variety......Page 268 Review Essays......Page 284 Elzbieta Ettinger, Hannah Arendt/Martin Heidegger......Page 286 Political and Diplomatic Documents, December 1947–May 1948......Page 295 Book Reviews......Page 302 Michel Abitbol, MiCrémiuex lePétain: Antishemiyut bealgeriyah hakoloniyalit (1870–1940) (From Crémieux to Pétain: Antisemitism in Colonial Algeria [1870–1940])......Page 304 Paul R. Bartrop (ed.), False Havens: The British Empire and the Holocaust......Page 307 Lucjan Dobroszycki, Reptile Journalism: The Official Polish-Language Press Under the Nazis, 1938–1945......Page 310 Eugenia Gurin-Loov, Shoah—Suur Häving: Eesti Juutide Katastroof 1941 (The Holocaust of Estonian Jews, 1941)......Page 312 Israel Gutman, Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising......Page 315 David A. Hackett (ed. and trans.), The Buchenwald Report......Page 318 Esriel Hildesheimer, Jüdische Selbstverwaltung unter dem NS-Regime......Page 319 Harold Kaplan, Conscience and Memory: Meditations in a Museum of the Holocaust......Page 321 Lawrence Langer, Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology......Page 323 Mortimer Ostow, Myth and Madness: The Psychodynamics of Antisemitism......Page 326 Alison Owings, Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich......Page 328 Efraim Zuroff, Occupation: Nazi Hunter—The Continuing Search for Perpetrators of the Holocaust......Page 330 Steven E. Aschheim, Culture and Catastrophe: German and Jewish Confrontations with National Socialism and Other Crises......Page 333 Pierre Birnbaum and Ira Katznelson (eds.), Paths of Emancipation: Jews, States and Citizenship......Page 334 Rose Cohen, Out of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side......Page 338 Lynn Davidman and Shelly Tenenbaum (eds.), Feminist Perspectives on Jewish Studies......Page 340 Robert Alan Goldberg, Back to the Soil: The Jewish Farmers of Clarion, Utah and Their World......Page 342 Gerhard Falk, American Judaism in Transition: The Secularization of a Religious Community......Page 344 Sylvia Barack Fishman, A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community......Page 347 Renna Sigman Friedman, These Are Our Children: Jewish Orphanages in the United States, 1880–1925......Page 348 Gregg Ivers, To Build a Wall: American Jews and the Separation of Church and State......Page 350 Jacob Katz, With My Own Eyes: A Historian's Autobiography......Page 352 Diane Lichtenstein, Writing Their Nations: The Tradition of Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women Writers......Page 355 Edward T. Linenthal, Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum......Page 357 Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab, Jews and the New American Scene......Page 359 Lara V. Marks, Model Mothers: Jewish Mothers and Maternity Provision in East London, 1870–1939......Page 361 J. Sanford Rikoon (ed.), Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains......Page 363 Henry J. Tobias, A History of the Jews in New Mexico......Page 365 Yaakov Ro'i, Jews and Jewish Life in Russia and the Soviet Union......Page 368 Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll and Leonardo Senkman (eds.), Judaica Latinoamericana: Estudios Histórico-Sociales II......Page 369 Ismar Schorsch, From Text to Context: The Turn to History in Modern Judaism......Page 372 Naomi Shepherd, A Price Below Rubies: Jewish Women as Rebels and Radicals......Page 374 Melford E. Spiro, Gender and Culture: Kibbutz Women Revisited......Page 378 Henry Felix Srebrnik, London Jews and British Communism 1935–1945......Page 381 Mark Anderson, Kafka's Clothes: Ornament and Aestheticism in the Habsburg "Fin de Siècle"......Page 384 Alan Cheuse and Nicholas Delbanco (eds.), Talking Horse: Bernard Malamud on Life and Work......Page 386 Lawrence Graver, An Obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and the Diary......Page 388 Hannan Hever, Bishvi hautopiyah: masah 'al meshihiyut upolitikah bashirah ha'ivrit beerez yisrael bein shtei milhamot ha'olam (Captives of Utopia: An Essay on Messianism and Politics in Hebrew Poetry in Eretz Israel Between the Two World Wars......Page 390 Lawrence A. Hoffman and Janet R. Walton (eds.), Sacred Sound and Social Change: Liturgical Music in Jewish and Christian Experience......Page 393 Astrid Starck (ed.), Westjiddish: Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit—Le Yiddish occidental: Actes du Colloque de Mulhouse......Page 395 Shulamit Soloveitchik Meiselman, The Soloveitchik Heritage: A Daughter's Memoir......Page 397 Gloria Wiederkehr-Pollack, Eliezer Zweifel and the Intellectual Defense of Hasidism......Page 398 Walter S. Wurzburger, Ethics of Responsibility: Pluralistic Approaches to Covenantal Ethics......Page 399 Uri Bar-Joseph, Intelligence Intervention in the Politics of Democratic States: U.S., Israel and Britain......Page 402 Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov, Israel and the Peace Process, 1977–1982: In Search of Legitimacy for Peace......Page 405 Boas Evron, Jewish State or Israeli Nation? (trans. James Diamond)......Page 407 David Garnham and Mark Tessler (eds.), Democracy, War, and Peace in the Middle East......Page 409 Yael Zerubavel, Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition......Page 411 Recently Completed Doctoral Dissertations......Page 415 Contents for Volume XIV......Page 421 Note on Editorial Policy......Page 422 This volume of the annual 'Studies in Contemporary Jewry' series presents essays on the origins of the Holocaust. 'The Fate of the European Jews', 1933-1945 provides multiple perspectives on the question of whether the Holocaust can best be explained as an inevitable result of Europe's anti-Semitic history, or as a tragic historical mutation.