This guide is an in-depth listing of Holocaust and Genocide Studies resources available to students, faculty, and staff at the University of Minnesota (UMN). Some resources are also available to users not affiliated with UMN.
Encyclopedias/Handbooks on Genocide Studies
- Atrocities, Massacres, and War Crimes: An Encyclopedia byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9781598849264Publication Date: 2013Covers massacres, atrocities, war crimes, and genocides, including acts of inhumanity on all continents; and serves as a reminder that lest we forget, history will repeat itself. * Provides coverage of atrocities, massacres, and war crimes that is wide-ranging in scope and historical perspective, covering everything from genocides to isolated actions that constituted grave breaches of the laws of war .
- A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9780313386794Publication Date: 2012This book documents the devastating effects of genocide in the world's most destructive human environments since the end of World War II and explores why such events still occur.
- Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9780028659923Publication Date: 2005his encyclopedia spans the globe to explain the issues behind crimes against humanity and human rights issues as they relate to individual countries and the world at large. It traces the history of events that qualify as genocide and crimes against humanity, profiles perpetrators and heroes, and explains international laws and law proceedings aimed at ending genocide and crimes against humanity.
- Modern Genocide: the Definitive Resource and Document Collection byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9781610693646Publication Date: 2014Close examination of 10 modern genocides enhanced by documents and introductions that provide additional historical and contemporary context for learning about and understanding these tragic events. Includes a collection of documents with each genocide section that also contains appropriate introductions to set the historical and contemporary context. Supplies Analyze sections that allow for critical thinking while providing readers with insight into some of the most controversial and significant issues involving genocide.
- The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9780199232116Publication Date: 2010Thirty-four renowned experts study genocide through the ages by taking regional, thematic, and disciplinary-specific approaches. Chapters examine secessionist and political genocides in modern Asia. Others treat the violent dynamics of European colonialism in Africa, the complex ethnic geography of the Great Lakes region, and the structural instability of the continent's northern horn. South and North America receive detailed coverage, as do the Ottoman Empire, Nazi-occupied Europe, and post-communist Eastern Europe. Sustained attention is paid to themes like gender, memory, the state, culture, ethnic cleansing, military intervention, the United Nations, and prosecutions.
Encyclopedias/Handbooks on the Holocaust
- A Companion to the Holocaust byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9781118970508Publication Date: 2020Six 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.
- Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature byCall Number: TC Wilson Library Annex Storage PN56.H55 E53 2002ISBN: 1573562572Publication Date: 2002Whether it's a novel, memoir, diary, poem, or drama, a common thread runs through the literature of the Nazi Holocaust--a motif of personal testimony to the dearness of humanity. With that perspective the authors of Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature undertake profiling 128 of the most influential first generation authors who either survived, perished, or were closely connected to the Holocaust. The entries are generally organized into three primary divisions: (1) an opening section on why the author's work has a significant or distinctive place in Holocaust literature, (2) a second section containing information on the author's biography, and (3) a critical examination of the highlights of the author's work.
- Encyclopedia of the Holocaust byCall Number: TC Wilson Library Reference Quarto D804.25 .E53 2000ISBN: 0816043337Publication Date: 2000
- Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust (3rd edition) byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9781538130162Publication Date: 2020Beginning 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 Adolf Hitler's war against the Jews, wherein he sought to eliminate through mass murder every Jewish man, woman and child. 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. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, issues, and events that led to the murder of six-million Jews, and millions of other groups by Nazi Germany.
- The Holocaust Encyclopedia byCall Number: TC Wilson Library Reference D804.25 .H66x 2001ISBN: 0300084323Publication Date: 2001Includes articles on concentration camps and Gypsies, major ghettoes, the Holocaust in cinema and television, American policy, theological and philosophical responses, Nazi policy, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, historiography, the Madagascar Plan, Holocaust denial, Holocaust literature, and more.
- Holocaust Literature byISBN: 0415929830Publication Date: 2003Featuring 300 alphabetically organized bio-critical essays on writers of memoirs, novels, poetry, short stories, and drama. Including writers whose works first appeared in Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Yiddish, this reference provides wide international coverage, though its focus will be on writers whose work is available in English.
- Holocaust Literature : A History and Guide byISBN: 9781611683578Publication Date: 2012Here is a historical survey of Holocaust literature in all genres, countries, and major languages. Beginning in wartime, it proceeds from the literature of mobilization and mourning in the Free World to the vast literature produced in Nazi-occupied ghettos, bunkers and places of hiding, transit and concentration camps. Moving from Europe to Israel, the United States, and beyond, the authors situate the writings by real and proxy witnesses within three distinct postwar periods: "communal memory," still internal and internecine; "provisional memory" in the 1960s and 1970s, when a self-conscious Holocaust genre is born; and "authorized memory," in which we live today.
- Sources for studying the Holocaust : a guide byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9781003248620Publication Date: 2023Each chapter looks at one of a diverse range of source material from which scholars have rescued the history, including survivor testimony, diaries, letters, newspaper accounts, photographs, trial documents, artefacts, digital resources, memorials, films, literature and art. Each chapter shows how different types of records can be utilized as accurate sources for the writing of Holocaust history.
- The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos During the Holocaust byISBN: 9789653083455Publication Date: 2010This encyclopedia gathers data from historical studies, testimonies, and documents dealing with more than 1,100 ghettos throughout Eastern Europe. This encyclopedia offers detailed entries on the various ghettos into which the Jews of Eastern Europe were confined during the Holocaust. Entries on each ghetto are written by scholars and specialists on their topic and include location, wartime name, and geographical coordinates, and, for the larger ghettos, information on life before World War II and during the Soviet occupation era, German (Nazi) occupation, ghetto structure, institutional life and leadership, terror and killing operations, underground resistance, and the number of survivors at liberation. They also describe the differences between each ghetto and examine the difficulties of daily life in the ghetto, coping strategies, and different forms of resistance.
Reference Databases
- Gale EbooksSearch encyclopedias and reference books from various publishers in many subjects, including art, biography, business, cultural studies, education, the environment, history, religion, science, and social science.
- Oxford Handbooks OnlineOxford Handbooks contain peer-reviewed scholarly review articles in Archaeology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Economics and Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, and Religion. Included are classic works of scholarship along with newly-published works. Each handbook offers a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in a particular field of study. Individual articles by leading scholars review key issues and major debates, and discuss how those debates might evolve.
- Oxford Reference OnlineContains 100 language and subject dictionaries and other reference works, and searches across these resources. Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
- World Biographical Information SystemSearch short biographical information on over 6 million people from the 8th century B.C. to the present. WBIS provides an index to the entire archive; we have full-text access to these language-area archives: Baltic, Czech & Slovak, German, Polish, Russian & Soviet, and Scandinavian Biographical Archives.
Scholarly and Reference Websites
A selected list of scholarly and reference websites.
- Genocide Studies Resources (Yale University)Extensive list of bibliographies, databases, AV, journals, maps & satellite images, publications, transcripts, and more.
- H-HolocaustFrom H-Net, discussion forum for scholars in Holocaust Studies
- H-GenocideFrom H-Net, discussion forum for scholars in Genocide Studies.
- Tools for Research (US Holocaust Memorial Museum)Access to USHMM's online bibliographies, collections, and more.
- Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies GuidesUniversity of Minnesota Guides on Armenian Genocide, Cambodian Genocide, Daesh/Islamic State, the Holocaust, the Holodomor (Ukranian Genocide), the Dakota War of 1862, and the Rwandan Genocide written by Ph.D. candidates and scholars in the field providing a basic overview, including events that led up to the violence and local and international responses, key actors, important terminology, and links to authoritative sources for further reading.
- Digital Holocaust Memoryincludes blog posts, videos, and more related to the Holocaust and Memory Studies
- "Gay Holocaust"The purpose of this guide is present English language resources not only about the Gay Holocaust itself, but also about the situation of Germany and the homosexuals before the Nazis. This resource guide was originally created by Lucia Cedeira in 2003 and updated in 2021 by April Sheppard. From the American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table
Last Updated: Jul 19, 2024 3:15 PM
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