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Jewish Studies

The Holocaust

Penkower: The Jews Were ExpendableThe Jews Were Expendable: Free World Diplomacy and the Holocaust

Monty Noam Penkower

Penkower examines the foremost issues of Holocaust diplomacy and charts the free world’s tragic failure to respond decisively to the Holocaust.

Mosse: Masses and ManMasses and Man: Nationalist and Fascist Perceptions of Reality

George L. Mosse

A collection of essays discussing the rise of mass societies in Europe and the precursors of Nazism.

Whitman: The Testing of Hanna SeneshThe Testing of Hanna Senesh

Ruth Whitman

Ruth Whitman recreates in poetry and prose the last nine months in the life of Hanna Senesh—poet, pioneer, and hero of World War II.

Eckardt: Long Night's Journey into DayLong Night’s Journey into Day: A Revised Retrospective on the Holocaust

Alice L. Eckardt and A. Roy Eckardt

An examination of moral, theological, historical, and politcial issues raised for Christians and Jews by the Holocaust.

Bauer: American Jewry and the HolocaustAmerican Jewry and the Holocaust: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939–1945

Yehuda Bauer

Drawing on the mass of unpublished material in the JDC archives, Bauer describes the efforts made to aid European victims of World War II by the New York-based American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

Presser: Ashes in the WindAshes in the Wind: The Destruction of Dutch Jewry

Jacob Presser  •  Translated by Arnold Pomerans

Historian Jacob Presser documents the destruction of Dutch Jewry, from isolation to deportation and, ultimately, to extermination.