The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos During the Holocaust, Dan Michman (New York Cambridge University Press, 2011), viii + 191 pp., hardcover, 89.00
Holocaust studies is a field that yields little pleasure. The material is emotionally and intellectually taxing, and the insights that one gains, especially if they are important, are often profoundly depressing with regard to human beings' capacity to inflict evil upon one another. But one of...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 131-133 |
| Review of: | The emergence of Jewish Ghettos during the Holocaust (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press [u.a.], 2011) (Berenbaum, Michael)
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| Summary: | Holocaust studies is a field that yields little pleasure. The material is emotionally and intellectually taxing, and the insights that one gains, especially if they are important, are often profoundly depressing with regard to human beings' capacity to inflict evil upon one another. But one of the pleasures that one can have in this field is to see its maturation, to read the new work of young scholars and the fresh work of experienced scholars who are taking innovative approaches to their field of study., Christopher Browning, for example, has a well-deserved reputation as a “documents man.” A protégé of Raul Hilberg, he can read German documentation and come to insights that glisten; he examines details in their greatest specificity but still presses toward larger conclusions. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcs015 |