Provides a cutting-edge, nuanced, and multi-disciplinary picture of the Holocaust from local, transnational, continental, and global perspectives Holocaust Studies is a dynamic field that encompasses discussions on human behavior, extremity, and moral action. A diverse range of disciplines - history, philosophy, literature, social psychology, anthropology, geography, amongst others - continue to make important contributions to its scholarship. A Companion to the Holocaust provides exciting commentaries on current and emerging debates and identifies new connections for research. The text incorporates new language, geographies, and approaches to address the precursors of the Holocaust and examine its global consequences. A team of international contributors provides insightful and sophisticated analyses of current trends in Holocaust research that go far beyond common conceptions of the Holocaust's causes, unfolding and impact. Scholars draw on their original research to interpret current, agenda-setting historical and historiographical debates on the Holocaust. Six broad sections cover wide-ranging topics such as new debates about Nazi perpetrators, arguments about the causes and places of persecution of Jews in Germany and Europe, and Jewish and non-Jewish responses to it, the use of forced labor in the German war economy, representations of the Holocaust witness, and many others. A masterful framing chapter sets the direction and tone of each section's themes. Comprising over thirty essays, this important addition to Holocaust studies: • Offers a remarkable compendium of systematic, comparative, and precise analyses • Covers areas and topics not included in any other companion of its type • Examines the ongoing cultural, social, and political legacies of the Holocaust • Includes discussions on non-European and non-Western geographies, inter-ethnic tensions, and violence A Companion to the Holocaust is an essential resource for students and scholars of European, German, genocide, colonial and Jewish history, as well as those in the general humanities.
Notes on Editors and Contributors ix Introduction 1 Simone Gigliotti and Hilary Earl Theme 1 New Orientations and Topical Integrations 19 1 Final Solution, Holocaust, Shoah, or Genocide? From Separate to Integrated Histories 21 Devin O. Pendas 2 Raphael Lemkin and Genocide before the Holocaust: Ethnic and Religious Minorities under Attack 45 Cathie Carmichael 3 Ideologies of Race: The Construction and Suppression of Otherness in Nazi Germany 59 Dan Stone 4 Queering Holocaust Studies: New Frameworks for Understanding Nazi Homophobia and the Politics of Sexuality under National Socialism 75 William J. Spurlin 5 The Holocaust as Genocide: Milestones in the Historiographical Discourse 95 Daniel Blatman Theme 2 Plunder, Extermination, and Prosecution 115 6 Old Nazis, Ordinary Men, and New Killers: Synthetic and Divergent Histories of Perpetrators 117 Edward B. Westermann 7 The Nazi War Economy, the Forced Labor System, and the Murde of Jewish and Non-Jewish Workers 135 Mark Spoerer 8 All the Other Neighbors: Communal Genocide in Eastern Europe 153 Waitman Wade Beorn 9 War Crimes Trials, the Holocaust, and Historiography, 1943-2011 173 Kim Christian Priemel 10 Crimes against Culture: From Plunder to Postwar Restitution Politics 191 Bianca Gaudenzi Theme 3 Reframing Jewish Histories 209 11 Characteristics of Holocaust Historiography and Their Contexts since 1990: Emphases, Perceptions, Developments, Debates 211 Dan Michman 12 A Sustained Civilian Struggle: Rethinking Jewish Responses to the Nazi Regime 233 David Engel 13 Ghettos and Ghettoization - History and Historiography 247 Guy Miron 14 Survivors of the Holocaust within the Nazi Universe of Camps 263 Martin C. Dean 15 Social Networks of Support: Trajectories of Escape, Rescue and Survival 279 Natalia Aleksiun 16 A Young Person's War: The Disrupted Lives of Children and Youth 295 Joanna B. Michlic 17 Anything But Silent: Jewish Responses to the Holocaust in the Aftermath of World War II 311 Elisabeth Gallas and Laura Jockusch Theme 4 Local, Mobile, and Transnational Holocausts 331 18 Geographies of the Holocaust 333 Tim Cole 19 The Global Final Solution and Nazi Imperialism 349 Gerhard L. Weinberg 20 Refugees' Routes: Emigration, Resettlement, and Transmigration 363 Susanne Heim 21 The Geopolitics of Neutrality: Diplomacy, Refuge, and Rescue during the Holocaust 381 David A. Messenger 22 Spain and the Holocaust: Contested Past, Contested Present 397 Alejandro Baer and Pedro Correa 23 Contesting the Zionist Narrative: Arab Responses to the Holocaust 413 Esther Webman 24 Redrawing Holocaust Geographies: A Cartography of Vichy and Nazi Reach into North Africa 431 Aomar Boum Theme 5 Witnessing in Dialogue: Testifiers, Readers, and Viewers 449 25 The Holocaust Witness: Wartime and Postwar Voices 451 Alan Rosen 26 Sexual Violence: Recovering a Suppressed History 469 Monika J. Flaschka 27 Ethical Grey Zones: On Coercion and Complicity in the Concentration Camp and Beyond 487 Jonathan Druker 28 Holocaust Photography and the Challenge of the Visual 503 Carol Zemel 29 Holocaust Memory in a Post-Survivor World: Bearing Lasting Witness 519 Nicholas Chare 30 Postmemory: Digital Testimony and the Future of Witnessing 537 Noah Shenker Theme 6 Human Rights and Visual Culture: Pivots and Disruptions 553 31 The Problem of Human Rights after the Holocaust 555 Valerie Hebert 32 Indigenous Genocide and Perceptions of the Holocaust in Canada 577 David B. MacDonald 33 Lessons from History? The Future of Holocaust Education 599 Avril Alba 34 The Changing Landscape of Holocaust Memorialization in Poland 619 Amanda F. Grzyb 35 #Holocaust #Auschwitz: Performing Holocaust Memory on Social Media 639 Meghan Lundrigan 36 Contemporary Holocaust Film Beyond Mimetic Imperatives 657 Daniel H. Magilow Index 673
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