In recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we would like to present a list of new and recent Holocaust and Genocide Studies titles, as well as free access to related journal articles.
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Posted 27 January 2023
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Hannah Arendt (14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975), German-American philosopher and political theorist, was the first to argue that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe. In her pivotal work The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), she established that theories of race, notions of racial and cultural […]
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Posted 14 October 2022
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Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945, marking defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of Second World War in Europe. In recognition of the day Berghahn is pleased to offer […]
The New York Times recently featured an article on the Wannsee Conference, one of the most significant events in the history of The Holocaust. On 20 January 1942, fifteen senior German government officials attended a short meeting in Berlin to discuss the deportation and murder of the Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe. Despite lasting less than […]
Read an excerpt from Marek Haltof’s POLISH FILM AND THE HOLOCAUST: Politics and Memory.
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Posted 19 April 2021
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Also tagged: anti-fascism, commemoration, film and media studies, genocide studies, history, holocaust, holocaust memory, holocaust resistance, Jewish heritage, Jewish history, Memory studies, poland, polish cinema, polish film, politics, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Our editors have put together a list of recommendations per our updated subject categories. Bundle any of these eBooks together at a discounted price by using coupon code 2020EOY through our website. See details about this offer below.
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Posted 15 December 2020
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Also tagged: 18th/19th Century History, 20th Century History, anthropology, archaeology, Colonialism, Early modern History, film and media studies, genocide, genocide studies, history, holocaust, holocaust studies, Memory studies, Transport Studies, World War I, World War II
Thomas Pegelow Kaplan and Wolf Gruner Raul Hilberg’s path-breaking 1961 study The Destruction of the European Jews rightfully remains on the reading list of any serious student of the Holocaust. Nonetheless, Hilberg’s insistence on European Jews‘ alleged “almost complete lack of resistance” has been subjected to frequent scholarly criticism. He partially based this claim on […]
Omer Bartov, Brown University This book is derived from research I carried out for my recent monograph, Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018). In the course of looking for documents in scores of archives and libraries, as well as seeking personal accounts that would help me reconstruct the “biography” of a […]
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Posted 17 June 2020
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Also tagged: archives, Buczacz, diaries, Galicia, genocide, genocide studies, Memory studies, nationalism, poland, wartime, World War I, World War II
Dr. Gaëlle Fisher’s recent monograph, Resettlers and Survivors: Bukovina and the Politics of Belonging in West Germany and Israel, 1945–1989, explores some of the more complex reverberations of World War II. It is the third volume in Berghahn’s growing Worlds of Memory series, published in collaboration with the Memory Studies Association.
Dear Colleague, We are delighted to inform you that we will be attending the American Historical Association’s annual meeting in New York, NY, on January 3rd–6th, 2020. Please stop by Booth #1007 to browse our latest selection of books at discounted prices and pick up free journal samples. Scroll down for a preview of the new releases on display.
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Posted 23 December 2019
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Also tagged: AHA20, AHA2020, American Historical Association, bohemia, Caribbean studies, czech, environmental history, environmental studies, eugenics, genocide studies, heritage, history, holocaust, holocaust studies, jewish refugees, Latin American History, Latin American Studies, moravia, Nuclear crisis, perpetrator, postsocialist, Raul Hilberg, Spanish History, Steven Pinker, The Destruction of the European Jews, ungemach, violence in society, WLM, women's history
