HIST 3727: History of the Holocaust

Six broad multidiciplinary sections cover wide-ranging topics such as new debates about Nazi perpetrators, arguments about the causes and places of persecution of Jews in Germany and Europe, and Jewish and non-Jewish responses to it, the use of forced labor in the German war economy, representations of the Holocaust witness, and many others. This volume includes discussions on non-European and non-Western geographies, inter-ethnic tensions, and violence.

Beginning with the roots of anti-Semitism in early Christian Europe, this book traces the evolution of the Jewish stereotype as the evil “other,” which culminated in the Holocaust against the Jews. It includes most recent scholarship on the Holocaust which reflects the recent rise of Neo-Nazism, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia throughout the West, including the United States.This third edition of Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography.