Overview
- Assembles case studies on the human dimension of the Holocaust as illuminated in the academic wort of preeminent Holocaust scholar Deborah Dwork, the founding director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- Explores how agency, a key category in recent Holocaust studies and the work of Dwork, works in a variety of different ‘small’ settings
- Approaches the topic from a variety of angles, including specific locales or regions, organizations, or groups of individuals
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide (PSHG)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Youth and Identity
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Ambiguities of Perpetration
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Cultures of Memory
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mary Jane Rein is Executive Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Agency and the Holocaust
Book Subtitle: Essays in Honor of Debórah Dwork
Editors: Thomas Kühne, Mary Jane Rein
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38998-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38997-0Published: 29 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39000-6Published: 29 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38998-7Published: 28 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2731-569X
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5703
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 246
Topics: History of Modern Europe, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Judaism