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LESSONS OF THE HOLOCAUST
Michael R. Marrus
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Description for LESSONS OF THE HOLOCAUST
Paperback. .
Although difficult to imagine, sixty years ago the Holocaust had practically no visibility in examinations of the Second World War. Yet today it is understood to be not only one of the defining moments of the twentieth century but also a touchstone in a quest for directions on how to avoid such catastrophes. In Lessons of the Holocaust, the distinguished historian Michael R. Marrus challenges the notion that there are definitive lessons to be deduced from the destruction of European Jewry. Instead, drawing on decades of studying, writing about, and teaching the Holocaust, he shows how its lessons are constantly challenged, debated, altered, and reinterpreted. A succinct, stimulating analysis by a world-renowned historian, Lessons of the Holocaust is the perfect guide for the general reader to the historical and moral controversies which infuse the interpretation of the Holocaust and its significance.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
UTP Insights
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442630062
SKU
V9781442630062
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About Michael R. Marrus
Michael R. Marrus is the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies and the former dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto. Margaret MacMillan is the Warden of St Antony's College and a professor of International History at the University of Oxford.
Reviews for LESSONS OF THE HOLOCAUST
This book makes for great reading in introductory classes on the Holocaust and especially in those on Holocaust memory.
Thomas Kuhne
Seventeenth Century News
Lessons of the Holocaust is a joy to read. Written with clarity and verve, it covers a lot of ground elegantly and efficiently. But be prepared; at some point, it will hit you how profoundly this book has challenged what you thought you knew about the Holocaust.
Doris L. Bergen, University of Toronto
University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018
`Lessons of the Holocaust is a masterful work of far-reaching significance for scholars, undergraduates and graduate students, and non-specialists that only gains in relevance with time.'
Rebekah Klein-Pejsova
Canadian Journal of History - vol 53:01:2018
`Marrus offers a bold and superb assessment of prescriptions drawn from Holocaust history. This is as much an exploration of the uses and abuses of Holocaust history as an intellectual biography, a commentary on decades of studying and teaching the Holocaust.'
Joanna Sliwa
H-Poland/H-Net Reviews January 2018
Thomas Kuhne
Seventeenth Century News
Lessons of the Holocaust is a joy to read. Written with clarity and verve, it covers a lot of ground elegantly and efficiently. But be prepared; at some point, it will hit you how profoundly this book has challenged what you thought you knew about the Holocaust.
Doris L. Bergen, University of Toronto
University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018
`Lessons of the Holocaust is a masterful work of far-reaching significance for scholars, undergraduates and graduate students, and non-specialists that only gains in relevance with time.'
Rebekah Klein-Pejsova
Canadian Journal of History - vol 53:01:2018
`Marrus offers a bold and superb assessment of prescriptions drawn from Holocaust history. This is as much an exploration of the uses and abuses of Holocaust history as an intellectual biography, a commentary on decades of studying and teaching the Holocaust.'
Joanna Sliwa
H-Poland/H-Net Reviews January 2018