Reading the Holocaust
Reading the Holocaust
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USDMore than fifty years after their occurrence, the events of the Holocaust remain for some of their most dedicated students as morally and intellectually baffling, as 'unthinkable', as they were at their first rumouring. Reading the Holocaust, first published in 2002, challenges that bafflement, and the demoralization that attends it. Exploring the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' points of view, as it appears in histories and memoirs, films and poems, Inga Clendinnen seeks to dispel what she calls the 'Gorgon effect': the sickening of imagination and curiosity and the draining of the will that afflict so many of us when we try to look squarely at the persons and processes implicated in the Holocaust. Searching, eloquent and elegantly written, her book is an uncompromising attempt to extract the comprehensible from the unthinkable.
- A new perspective to Holocaust studies
- A wide-ranging, accessible, often moving study, written in elegant, jargon-free prose
- Original hardback edition won the Premier's Award for General History in New South Wales
Reviews & endorsements
"Reading the Holocaust, is not, despite its somewhat generic title, just another book about the Holocaust....this is an important, insightful, superbly written meditation on a sorrow beyond words, well worth the attention of outsiders and insiders alike." New York Times Book Review
"Reading the Holocaust is an excellent introduction to Holocaust studies and a lucid, morally stringent reflection on genocide."
Susan A. Crane, University of Arizona, Journal of Modern History
Product details
May 2002Paperback
9780521012690
238 pages
216 × 138 × 17 mm
0.288kg
7 b/w illus. 1 map
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Table of Contents
- 1. Beginning
- 2. Impediments
- Part I. Victims:
- 3. Witnessing
- 4. Resisting
- Part II. Perpetrators:
- 5. Defining: inside the grey zone: the Auschwitz Sonderkommando
- 6. Leaders
- 7. The men in the green tunics: the order police in Poland
- 8. The Auschwitz SS
- 9. Representing the Holocaust.
