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A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide
Alon Confino
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Description for A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 32 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 442.
A groundbreaking reexamination of the Holocaust and of how Germans understood their genocidal project
Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by historians in their large-scale assessments of how and why the Holocaust occurred. In this gripping new analysis, Alon Confino draws on an array of archives across three continents to propose a penetrating new assessment of one of the central moral problems of the twentieth century. To a surprising extent, Confino demonstrates, the mass murder of Jews during the ... Read more
A groundbreaking reexamination of the Holocaust and of how Germans understood their genocidal project
Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by historians in their large-scale assessments of how and why the Holocaust occurred. In this gripping new analysis, Alon Confino draws on an array of archives across three continents to propose a penetrating new assessment of one of the central moral problems of the twentieth century. To a surprising extent, Confino demonstrates, the mass murder of Jews during the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
441g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300212518
SKU
V9780300212518
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About Alon Confino
Alon Confino is professor of History at the University of Virginia and at Ben Gurion University, Israel. He lives in Charlottesville, VA.
Reviews for A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide
“Insightful [and] chilling. . . . Represents Nazism less as a ‘banality of evil’ and more as an ‘intimate brutality.’”—Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviews
“Well written [and] provocative.”—Frederic Crome, Library Journal
Frederic Crome
Library Journal
“Quietly devastating . . . [a] short, staggering new book . . . an absolutely horrifying portrait . . . at ... Read more
Kirkus Reviews
“Well written [and] provocative.”—Frederic Crome, Library Journal
Frederic Crome
Library Journal
“Quietly devastating . . . [a] short, staggering new book . . . an absolutely horrifying portrait . . . at ... Read more