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  • The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction

    Examines textual representations of the consciousness of men responsible for committing Holocaust crimes.Winner of the 2023 Sybil Halpern Milton Book Prize!The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction examines texts that portray the inner experience of Holocaust perpetrators and thus transform them from archetypes of evil into complex psychological and moral subjects. Employing ... Read more

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  • The Construction of Testimony

    Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes

    Series series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
    Groundbreaking analyses of the vast archive of newly digitized and released outtakes from Lanzmann's masterwork.In The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes, editors Erin McGlothlin, Brad Prager, and Markus Zisselsberger gather contributions on how Shoah (1985) fundamentally changed the nature and use of filmed testimony and laid the groundwork for how historians and ... Read more

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  • Everyday Prayers for Faith

    Finding Confidence in God No Matter What

    Series series Everyday Prayers
    Life rarely goes as planned, particularly when we rely on our own plans rather than God’s. So when things go awry, our faith in His faithfulness may waver.And yet God’s faithfulness is not tied to our earthly circumstances but rather to His promises in Scripture.In Everyday Prayers for Faith: Finding Confidence in God No Matter What, author Erin H. Warren unpacks the precious promises of God that ... Read more

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  • Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-First Century

    Images, Memory, and the Ethics of Representation

    In the first fifteen years of the twenty-first century, a large number of films were produced in Europe, Israel, the United States, and elsewhere addressing the historical reality and the legacy of the Holocaust. Contemporary Holocaust cinema exists at the intersection of national cultural traditions, aesthetic conventions, and the inner logic of popular forms of entertainment. It also reacts to ... Read more

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  • Edge of Catastrophe

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    Erich Fromm, the prominent twentieth-century public intellectual and psychoanalyst, was recognized for his courageous stand against fascism, racism, and human destructiveness. Until now, however, little has been known about the extent to which Fromm's personal experience of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust shaped his outlook and work. In Edge of Catastrophe, Roger Frie introduces for the first time ... Read more

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  • Yiddish

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  • Sparing the Child

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  • Occupied Words

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    How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the HolocaustThe Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanization of the Shoah, prisoners added or reinvented thousands of Yiddish words and phrases to describe their new reality. These crass, witty, and sometimes ... Read more

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