Claudia Moscovici

Holocaust Memories (eBook, ePUB)

A Survey of Holocaust Memoirs, Histories, Novels, and Films

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Nearly eighty years have passed since the Holocaust. There have been hundreds of memoirs, histories and novels written about it, yet many fear that this important event may fall into oblivion. As Holocaust survivors pass away, their legacy of suffering, tenacity and courage could be forgotten. It is up to each generation to commemorate the victims, preserve their life stories and hopefully help prevent such catastrophes. These were my main motivations in writing this book, Holocaust Memories, which includes reviews of memoirs, histories, biographies, novels and films about the Holocaust. It was difficult to choose among the multitude of books on the subject that deserve our attention. I made my selections based partly on the works that are considered to be the most important on the subject; partly on wishing to offer some historical background about the Holocaust in different countries and regions that were occupied by or allied themselves with Nazi Germany, and partly on my personal preferences, interests and knowledge. The Nazis targeted European Jews as their main victims, so my book focuses primarily on them. At the same time, since the Nazis also targeted other groups they considered dangerous and inferior, I also review books about the sufferings of the Gypsies, the Poles and other groups that fell victim to the Nazi regimes. In the last part, I review books that discuss other genocides and crimes against humanity, including the Stalinist mass purges, the Cambodian massacres by the Pol Pot regime and the Rwandan genocide. I want to emphasize that history can, indeed, repeat itself, even if in different forms and contexts. Just as the Jews of Europe were not the only targets of genocide, Fascist regimes were not its only perpetrators.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761870937
• Artikelnr.: 56954144

Autorenporträt

Claudia Moscovici is art critic and novelist based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She obtained her A.B. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University, a Ph.D. in the same field from Brown University and has taught courses on the French Enlightenment, Romanticism and art and aesthetics at Boston University and the University of Michigan. She's the author of the art and aesthetics textbook, Romanticism and Postromanticism (Lexington Books, 2010), and a founding partner of Panodyssey.com, an international art and culture collaborative venture started in 2019 by Universal Music France executive Alexandre Leforestier, IT innovator Yann Rigo and marketing entrepreneur Valentin Bert. Due to the popularity of her art blog, https://fineartebooks.wordpress.com/, she has been voted by artists one of the top five "most famous female art critics in the world" on ranker.com, the largest international database of opinions, with more than 1 billion votes.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Rabbi Joseph Polak
Introduction
Preface: A Precedent for the Holocaust
1. Between Fanaticism and Terror: Hitler, Stalin and The Noise of Time
2. Elie Wiesel's Night: Shedding Light Upon the Darkness
3. Bergen-Belsen and Four Perfect Pebbles
4. The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank by Willy Lindwer
5. Hazy Hints of Memory: After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring
6. Survivors Club: A Family's Legendary Tale
7. Levi's Reflection on Humanity in Crisis: Survival in Auschwitz
8. Sarah's Key and the Holocaust in France
9. The Holocaust in Hungary: Leni Yahil's The Holocaust
10. A Holocaust Hero in Hungary: Wallenberg by Kati Marton
11. Imre Kertesz's Fatelessness
12. Anti-Semitism in Hungary Today
13. Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism: Why the Jews?
14. The Role of the Masses in The Origins of Totalitarianism
15. Beyond the Jewish Genocide: Inferno by Max Hastings
16. Hitler's Ban on Modern Art: The "Degenerate Art" Exhibit
17. Saving European Art from t