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Contemporary Views on the Holocaust

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  • © 1983

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Editors:
  1. Randolph L. Braham
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Part of the book series: Holocaust Studies Series (HOSS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Ethics and the Holocaust

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Value of Life: Jewish Ethics and the Holocaust

      • Francine Klagsbrun
      Pages 3-19

  3. The Allies and the Holocaust

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. The Horthy Offer a Missed Opportunity for Rescuing Jews in 1944

      • Bela Vago
      Pages 23-45

    3. The Struggle for an Allied Jewish Fighting Force During World War II

      • Monty Noam Penkower
      Pages 47-75

  4. The Holocaust: Selected Areas

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. The Japanese Ideology of Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust

      • David Kranzler
      Pages 79-107

    3. The Holocaust in Norway

      • Samuel Abrahamsen
      Pages 109-142

  6. Crime and Punishment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
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    2. Ernst Kaltenbrunner and The Final Solution

      • Peter R. Black
      Pages 183-199

    3. Attitudes Toward the Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals in the United States

      • Allan A. Ryan Jr.
      Pages 201-226

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 227-237
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This book is the second in a series of studies published under the auspices of the Institute for Holocaust Studies of the Graduate School and U niver­ sity Center of The City University of New York. Like the first book, it is an outgrowth of the lectures and special studies sponsored by the institute during the 1981-82 and 1982-83 academic years. This volume is divided into five parts. Part I, Ethics and the Holocaust, contains a pioneering investigation of one of the most neglected areas in Holocaust studies. Francine Klagsbrun, a well-known writer and popular lecturer, provides an erudite overview of the value of life in Jewish thought and tradition. With full understanding of the talmudic scholars' position on Jewish ethics and using concrete examples of the life-and­ death dilemmas that confronted many Jews in their concentration camp experiences, Klagsbrun provides dramatic evidence of the triumph of moral and ethical principles over the forces of evil during the Holocaust, this darkest period in Jewish history. The next two chapters, grouped under the heading The Allies and the Holocaust, deal with the failure of the Western Allies to respond to the desperate needs of the persecuted Jews of Europe during the Second World War. The first is by Professor Bela Vago, an authority on the Holocaust and East Central European history at the University of Haifa.

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