A history of the Holocaust

Bauer, Yehuda. (Author). Keren, Nili. (Added Author).

Summary: The author traces the roots of anti-Semitism that burgeoned through the ages and provides a comprehensive description of how and why the Holocaust occurred. This history is intensified by moving documentation, including passages from diaries left by concentration camp inmates as their only living testimony to the horrors they endured, plus tales of individual heroism amid unparalleled adversity. The revised edition contains all new art -- maps, charts, tables, graphs. All art elements and text contain updated, more accurate statistics. It's easier to read and navigate. Lastly, there are two 8-page inserts (16 pages total) of black-and-white photographs.

Record details

ISBN: 0531118843
ISBN: 9780531118849
ISBN: 0531155765
ISBN: 9780531155769
Physical Description: print
432 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: New York : Franklin Watts, 2001.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-415) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Who are the Jews? -- Christianity and the developing Jewish civilization -- Jewish reactions until modern times -- Jewish mysticism and Messianism -- Jewish social and economic life in the diaspora -- 2. Liberalism, emancipation, and antisemitism -- Social and political developments in Eastern Europe -- The ideological and organizational structure of nineteenth century Jewish society -- The results of emancipation -- Modern antisemitism -- Political antisemitism -- Jewish reactions -- Zionism and Palestine -- The Bund -- Anti-Zionist and other reactions -- 3. World War I and its aftermath -- The background : 1914-1918 -- Genocide on the Armenians -- The background : 1918-1933 -- Soviet Jewry -- British and French Jewry -- Antisemitism in Britain and France -- American Jewry -- The new Jewish center in the United States -- Jewish reactions -- 4. The Weimar Republic -- The Revolutionary era -- Social and economic problems -- Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party -- Nazi antisemitism -- 5. The evolution of Nazi Jewish policy, 1933-1938 -- German foreign policy -- Nazi antisemitic policy -- 6. German Jewry in the prewar era, 1933-1938 -- Jewish emigration -- Christianity and the Nazis.