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Tag: Memory studies
Voices on War and Genocide
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 small town in eastern Europe, I found three remarkable diaries about events in Buczacz during the two world wars. While the monograph I was writing attempted to capture the individual voices of the town’s residents as a way of understanding how a community of interethnic coexistence was transformed into a site of communal genocide, it was not possible to bring to light the different protagonists’ personal stories as told from their own perspective. This is precisely what Voices on War and Genocide offers.
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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.
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Browse our February and March 2020 releases in Anthropology, Archaeology/Heritage Studies, History, Memory Studies, and Mobility Studies and see what’s new in paperback.
COMMEMORATING 70 YEARS SINCE THE FORMATION OF EAST AND WEST GERMANY
On October 7th, 1949, the Democratic Republic of Germany was proclaimed, dividing Germany between East and West.
Seventy years later, we find ourselves in the days leading up to the German Studies Association’s annual meeting. A great deal has happened between 1949 and now, and we are delighted to present titles that provide comprehensive histories of this time period.
Visit Berghahn Books at The Memory Studies 2019 Conference!
We are delighted to inform you that we will be represented by Iberian Book Services at the Memory Studies Association conference in Madrid, Spain on June 25 – 28, 2019. We are also excited to announce a NEW SERIES, Worlds of Memory, published in collaboration with the Memory Studies Association. Please stop by to learn about the new series, browse our latest selection of books at a special discounted prices and pick up free journal samples.
If you are unable to attend, we would like to provide you with a special anniversary 25% discount offer on all titles throughout the website, print and eBook. At checkout, simply enter the discount code BB25.
Visit our website to browse new enhanced subject searching features for a complete listing of titles and don’t forget about our expanding list of eBooks available for download directly via our site. Visit our History eBook site.
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