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Title: Rethinking the Holocaust by Yehuda Bauer ISBN: 0-300-08256-8 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: January, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $38.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Historical Overview
Comment: Rethinking the Holocaust by Yehuda Bauer is an excellent historical review of the various issues that are raised by the Holocaust. Bauer is one of the preeminent holocaust historians and this book will only reenforce his place in historical studies.
The book reviews most of the recent historical issues ranging from the holocausts place in history to a comparison with more recent genocides. The central thesis is that what seperates the holocaust from the more recent genocides is not the necessarily the evil of the act. What has happened in Africa or Bosnia is not less evil or horrible than what the Nazis did. However, the African and Bosnian genocides were more significanly limited in scope. The Nazi plan was to hunt down the Jews where ever they lived and to eliminate them as a race. This desire seperates the holocaust from all other genocides.
The most interesting chapter discuses the theology of the holocaust. The central theological difficulty of the holocaust is how to reconcile an all powerful God with one that is just. The question being how could a just God who had the power to stop the death of millions not stop that murder. One conclusion is that God is all powerful or just, but not both. Bauer does not have any real answers, and there might not be any; however, the discussion is thought provoking and leads to furhter readings. This chapter was worth reading the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Rethinking the Holocaust..
Comment: Affirming the rational explicability and non-inevitability of the Holocaust, this book by Bauer, preeminent scholar of the Holocaust and former director of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Israel's Yad Vashem, offers a compelling, conceptually sophisticated historiographic analysis of the critical issues debated by historians in the field. Demonstrating prodigious learning and persistent intellectual clarity, grounded in his own prior research yet thoughtfully considerate and accepting of nuanced newer approaches, Bauer persuasively distinguishes other genocides from the unprecedented Jewish Holocaust, provides searching critiques of various scholars' overarching explanations of the reasons for the Holocaust (especially those of Bauman, Aly, and Goldhagen) while presenting his own, and cogently explores the range of problematic judgments on topics such as Jewish armed and unarmed resistance, ghetto Judenrate behavior, the possibilities of rescue, and the relationship between the Holocaust and the creation of the state of Israel. Less successful are the book's foray into gender analysis and the Holocaust and its sarcastic rant against Orthodox Jewish theological confrontations with the topic. In all other respects, however, this enormously illuminating tome, reflecting a humanistically motivated lifetime of engaged scholarship into the Holocaust, deserves the undivided attention of scholars and laypersons like. B. Kraut
Rating: 5
Summary: An essential book for Jews
Comment: I have to thank the New York Times Book Review for inducing me to read the book. Because it is so painful to read abot the Shoah and because most of the facts are already imprinted in my brain, I avoid books on the subject. But I wanted to know what was going on, as some of the revisionist ideas had filtered through and were bothering me. I found everything I wanted in this book, plus a lot more. The trauma is there, so the more we know and understand, the better.
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Title: Destruction of the European Jews by Raul Hilberg ISBN: 0841909105 Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc. Pub. Date: September, 1985 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the by Michael J. Berenbaum, Abraham J. Peck ISBN: 0253215293 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Perpetrators Victims Bystanders : Jewish Catastrophe 1933-1945 by Raul Hilberg ISBN: 0060995076 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 15 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A History of the Holocaust (Single Title Social Studies) by Yehuda Bauer, Nili Keren ISBN: 0531155765 Publisher: Franklin Watts, Incorporated Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning ISBN: 0060995068 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 17 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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