Perspectives on the Holocaust : essays in honor of Raul Hilberg

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Perspectives on the Holocaust : essays in honor of Raul Hilberg

edited by James S. Pacy and Alan P. Wertheimer

Westview Press, 1995

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This volume brings together original historical, literary, and philosophical analyses of the Holocaust by some of the worlds leading scholars, including Yehuda Bauer, Christopher Browning, George Steiner, Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Richard L. Rubenstein, Robert Wolfe, Eberhard Jackel, Peter Hayes, and John K. Roth. The essays cover topics as diverse as Nazi-Jewish negotiations, corporate involvement in the Holocaust, and the writings of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel. The book also contains personal tributes by Claude Lanzmann (Shoah) and Herman Wouk.

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  • Part 1 Essays on the history of the Holocaust: Nazi paperwork for the "Final Solution", Robert Wolfe
  • on the purpose of the Wannsee Conference, Eberhard Jackel
  • profits and persecution - corporate involvement in the Holocaust, Peter Hayes
  • beyond Warsaw and Lodz - perpetrating the Holocaust in Poland, Christopher Browning
  • Nazi-Jewish negotiations, Yehuda Bauer. Part 2 Philosophical and literary analyses of the Holocaust: through a glass darkly, George Steiner
  • Primo Levi - the survivor as victim, Alvin Rosenfeld
  • Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi, Richard Rubenstein
  • Holocaust question - philosophical and religious inquiries after Auschwitz, John K. Roth. Part 3 Personal tributes: Paul Hilberg - actor in "Shoah", Claude Lanzmann
  • "inescapable and the best" - tribute to Paul Hilberg, Herman Wouk.

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