What the book brings instead are useful, intelligent, judicious, and lucidly written summaries of the current scholarly consensus on key issues within the field. The ideal user- I deliberately say user and not reader-is a scholar of some related field, who, for purposes of research or teaching, needs to get a grasp on a particular aspect of the Holocaust without ... Read morehaving to master a large body of secondary literature.
Andrew N. Koss Religious Studies Review
a pioneering achievement which sets the standard for future such handbooks by capturing the current major debates of the field in an incisive and insightful way.
K. Hannah Holtschneider, Expository Times
To capture the current state of the field, the editors invited contributions from Holocaust scholars of the second and third generations - a decision that pays off handsomely ... It should be purchased by every university library in institutions where courses on the Holocaust are taught.
Donald G. Schilling, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
an excellent reference work and more. It contains broad implications for the understanding of genocide as such while emphasizing the Holocausts uniqueness. As important, however, is the Handbooks broad thematic and interdisciplinary approach, which encourages all Holocaust scholars to rethink constantly the paradigmatic and disciplinary barriers that tend to compartmentalize the academic world more generally.
Norman J.W. Goda, Journal of Contemporary History
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