The Holocaust and the liberal imagination : a social and cultural history
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The Holocaust and the liberal imagination : a social and cultural history
（Jewish society and culture）
Blackwell, 1994
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ISBN 9780631194828
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This book attempts to explain, but not condemn, the responses and reactions of the democratic world to the attempted destruction of European Jewry. It concentrates on the impact of the Shoah on ordinary people in the democracies and examines the actions of the nation-state in the light of popular responses. The disciplines of social, cultural, gender and labour history are employed to add a different dimension to the existing literature. The book focuses particularly on Britain and the Shoah. Nonetheless, its approach is comparative, especially with regard to the United States of America, thus allowing consideration of mono-cultural and plurally defined liberal democratic societies. The book also adopts a secular chronology covering the 60-year period from the Nazi rise to power to the present day. Ultimately this study argues that the Shoah, both at the time and subsequently, is not simply German, Jewish or continental history, but is an integral part of the experience of many countries away from the killing fields. Consequently it aims to be as much a contribution to Anglo-American social and cultural history as it is an account of the Holocaust.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Holocaust in Global Perspective and as Social History. Part One: 1933-1939: 1. Liberal Culture and the Nazi Persecution of the Jews, 1933-1939. 2. Their Brothers' (and Sisters') Keepers?: The Nazi Persecution of the Jews and the labour movement. 3. An Alien Occupation: Domestic Service and the Jewish Crisis, 1933 to 1939. Part Two: The Second World War: 4. Liberal Culture and the Contemporary Confrontation with the Destruction of European Jewry. 5. From the "Enemy Within" to "This Bestial Policy of Cold-Blooded Extermination": Britain, the United States and the Jews, September 1939 to December 1942. 6. Rules of the Game: Britain, the United States and the Holocaust, 1943 to 1945. Part Three: The Post-War World: 7. Liberal culture and the post-war confrontation with the Shoah.
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: pbk ISBN 9780631194835
Description
The Holocaust and the Liberal Imagination attempts to explain and not to condemn the responses and reactions of the democratic world to the attempted destruction of European Jewry. It concentrates on the impact of the Holocaust on ordinary people in the democracies and examines the actions of the nation-state in the light of popular responses. Ultimately this study argues that the Holocaust is not simply German, Jewish or continental history but is an integral but neglected part of the experience of many countries away from the killing fields. It is the first social and cultural history of its subject.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements. Preface.
Introduction: The Holocaust in Global Perspective and as Social History.
Part I: 1933-1939:.
1. Liberal Culture and the Nazi Persecution of the Jews, 1933-1939.
2. Their Brothers' (and Sisters') Keepers?: The Nazi Persecution of the Jews and the Labour Movement.
3. An Alien Occupation: Domestic Service and the Jewish Crisis, 1933 to 1939.
Part II: The Second World War:.
4. Liberal Culture and the Contemporary Confrontation with the Destruction of European Jewry.
5. From the 'Enemy Within' to 'This Bestial Policy of Cold-Blooded Extermination': Britain, the United States and the Jews, September 1939 to December 1942.
6. Rules of the Game: Britain, the United States and the Holocaust, 1943 to 1945.
Part III: The Post-War World:.
7. Liberal Culture and the Postwar Confrontation with the Shoah.
Conclusion.
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