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The Cambridge History of the Holocaust

The Cambridge History of the Holocaust

The Cambridge History of the Holocaust

Volume 4: Aftermath, Outcomes, Repercussions
Laura Jockusch, Brandeis University, Massachusetts
Devin O. Pendas, Boston College
August 2025
4. Aftermath, Outcomes, Repercussions
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    The aftermath of the Holocaust has been long and wide-reaching. Any act of mass murder and genocide leaves powerful traces: the trauma of the survivors, the challenge of punishment for the perpetrators and justice for the victims, and questions of how to properly commemorate and memorialize the loss and how to rebuild and restore. This is all the more true for the Holocaust, which has come to serve as a global cultural touchstone for evaluating mass violence. The legacy of the Holocaust has impacted every area of political and cultural life in many different countries since 1945. What is the state of aftermath studies for the Holocaust? How do we periodize the post-Holocaust landscape? Where are there continuities and where are there changes? How, when, and where has the Holocaust been globalized? In what areas did the Holocaust generate a fundamental rethinking of human relations and state institutions? And where did it not? This volume offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust around the world and demonstrates its enduring significance, from the postwar period to the present day.

    • Provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, global account of the aftermath and legacy of the Holocaust
    • Contextualizes the history of the Holocaust with the much longer history of its aftermath
    • Harnesses a global scope to emphasize the ways the Holocaust matters in areas far removed from the actual killing fields

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    August 2025
    Hardback
    9781108839396
    616 pages
    237 × 162 × 35 mm
    1.09kg
    Not yet published - available from July 2025

    Table of Contents

    • General editor's introduction Mark Roseman
    • Introduction to volume IV Laura Jockusch and Devin O. Pendas
    • Part I. History:
    • 1. Liberation, displacement and homecoming in the aftermath of the holocaust Kata Bohus and Atina Grossmann
    • 2. In each and every generation: survivors and their descendants David Slucki
    • 3. 'Forgotten victims' and the federal republic of Germany Henning Tümmers
    • 4. Testimony as a response to mass atrocity:
    • 1940s to the present Zoë Waxman
    • 5. Perpetrators on trial: the transnational history of holocaust trials Devin O. Pendas
    • 6. The plunder and the restoration of art and cultural property Jonathan Petropolous
    • 7. Restitution and reparations Regula Ludi
    • 8. Holocaust Denial and Antisemitism Jeffrey Herf
    • Part II. Geography:
    • 9. Germany and the holocaust Herold Marcuse
    • 10. Israel and the holocaust: History, Memory and Identity Laura Jockusch and Avinoam J. Patt
    • 11. The holocaust in eastern european memory and politics after the cold war Joanna B. Michlic and Per A. Rudling
    • 12. The Americanization of the holocaust Hasia R. Diner
    • Part III. Culture and ideas:
    • 13. The holocaust and social thought Enzo Traverso
    • 14. The holocaust and the challenges of representation Michael Rothberg
    • 15. In search of global justice: holocaust, genocide, law James Loeffler
    • 16. Theological responses to the holocaust Michael L. Morgan
    • 17. Holocaust and digital humanities todd Samuel Presner
    • Part IV. Culture and Fields:
    • 18. Holocaust commemoration and memorials Natasha Goldman
    • 19. Holocaust museums stefanie Shosh Rotem
    • 20. The holocaust and the medical professions Ulf Schmidt
    • 21. Holocaust literature David G. Roskies
    • 22. The holocaust and the visual arts: perplexity, meanings Glenn Sujo
    • 23. The holocaust and film Jennifer Cazanave
    • 24. The future of the holocaust-timely reflections Dan Diner
    • Index.
      Contributors
    • Mark Roseman, Laura Jockusch, Devin O. Pendas, Kata Bohus, Atina Grossmann, David Slucki, Henning Tümmers, Zoë Waxman, Jonathan Petropolous, Regula Ludi, Jeffrey Herf, Herold Marcuse, Avinoam J. Patt, Joanna B. Michlic, Per A. Rudling, Hasia R. Diner, Enzo Traverso, Michael Rothberg, James Loeffler, Michael L. Morgan, Samuel Presner, Natasha Goldman, Stefanie Shosh Rotem, Ulf Schmidt, David G. Roskies, Glenn Sujo, Jennifer Cazanave, Dan Diner

    • Editors
    • Laura Jockusch , Brandeis University, Massachusetts

      Laura Jockusch is Associate Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University. She is the author of Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe (2012); co-editor of Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust (2015) and Revenge, Retribution, Reconciliation: Justice and Emotions between Conflict and Mediation. A Cross-Disciplinary Anthology (2016); and editor of Khurbn-Forshung: Documents on Early Holocaust Research in Postwar Poland (2021).

    • Devin O. Pendas , Boston College

      Devin O. Pendas is Professor of History at Boston College. He is the author of The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963–1965: Genocide, History, and the Limits of the Law (Cambridge, 2006) and Democracy, Nazi Trials, and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945–1950 (Cambridge, 2020). He is the co-editor of Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany (Cambridge, 2017) and Political Trials in Theory and History (Cambridge, 2017).