The Holocaust: A Reader - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405114002 ISBN 13: 9781405114004

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

Synopsis

This interdisciplinary collection of primary and secondary readings encourages scholars and students to engage critically with current debates about the origins, implementation and postwar interpretation of the Holocaust.

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• Interdisciplinary content encourages students to engage with philosophical, political, cultural and literary debate as well as historiographical issues.
  
• Integrates oral histories and testimonies from both victims and perpetrators, including Jewish council leaders, victims of ghettos and camps, SS officials and German soldiers.
  
• Subsections can be used as the basis for oral or written exercises.
  
• Whole articles or substantial extracts are included wherever possible.

About this title

Book Description:

Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics features pairs of newly commissioned essays by some of the leading theorists working in the field today. Philosophers, social theorists, and legal scholars take opposing sides on issues of enduring and special contemporary importance such as abortion, affirmative action, animal rights, capital punishment, cloning, euthanasia, immigration, pornography, privacy in civil society, values in nature, and world hunger. The essays are written in plain, jargon-free language so as to be accessible to introductory readers, but they also contain cutting-edge, rigorous arguments that will demand the attention of scholars working on the hottest topics in applied ethics.

From the Back Cover:

The Holocaust: A Reader is an innovative interdisciplinary resource. Combining primary and secondary sources with editorial narrative, it enables scholars and students to engage critically with current debates about the origins, implementation, and postwar interpretation of the Holocaust.

The Reader is divided into six chronological sections and contains thematic subsections, each of which can be used by instructors as the basis for oral or written exercises. Oral histories and the testimonies of both victims and perpetrators – from Jewish council leaders, to ghetto and concentration camp victims, to SS officials and German soldiers – are integrated throughout, allowing scholars and students to see how underlying historical attitudes and policies evolved. Secondary sources are selected from the best recent literature on the Holocaust across a range of disciplines. Whole articles or substantial extracts are included wherever possible.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1405114002
• ISBN 13: 9781405114004
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 486
• Editor: Gigliotti Simone, Lang Berel