Lessons and Legacies: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World

Hayes, Peter (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0810109557 / ISBN 13: 9780810109551

Published by Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, 1991

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1991. 1st Printing. Very Good hardback book. No dust jacket. A square, tight and clean copy. Very short tear in cloth at top of spine. 373pp. Sm 4to. (Ww).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lessons and Legacies: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810109557
• ISBN 13: 9780810109551
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Jewish History

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Synopsis

Winner of the 1992 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

Nearly half a century after the Nazi massacre of the Jews in Europe, the Holocaust is now moving from the domain of experience to that of history. It is becoming the subject of recorded rather than living memory. Is real comprehension of the development and horror of the Nazi onslaught accessible to us? If so, through what intellectual processes or categories of understanding, and in the face of what temptations or diversions? How can we preserve, expand, and apply our knowledge of why and how barbarity came to prevail? What meaning can present and future generations derive from the catastrophe? These are the vital questions addressed by the essays in this volume.

About the Author

Peter Hayes is associate professor of history and German at Northwestern University. He is the author of Industry and Ideology: I. G. Farben in the Nazi Era.