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Outside Looking In

The World Universalizes the Holocaust

Edited by Norman JW Goda and Edward Kissi

282 pages, 13 illus. bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-317-3 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (January 2026)

eISBN 978-1-83695-318-0 eBook Not Yet Published


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"This is a fascinating and extremely timely edited volume from a diverse group of scholars who tackle intriguing topics, situated across the globe, with aplomb. I particularly appreciate that the editors have assembled pieces that both examine the global development of Holocaust universalization (Part I) as well as texts that focus on the limits of this universalization and its critics (Part II). This integrated and thoughtful approach is among the volume's great strengths." • Katrin Paehler, Illinois State University

“Taken together, most of the contributions to this volume offer a much-needed expansion of our knowledge of how the memory of the Holocaust has been universalized in particular settings. In addition to exploring Holocaust remembrance in places that have received little to no attention from scholars, overall the volume undermines simplistic characterizations of Holocaust memory as, at best, uncomplicated and, much worse, as a tool of past and ongoing oppression.” • Steven P. Remy, Brooklyn College

Description

The question of how to conceive of the Holocaust within a wider, historical framework remains contentious. For some, it is a universal catastrophe that provides a blueprint for understanding comparable instances of targeted violence, while for others its particularity precludes any comparison with other genocides. Outside Looking In provides a fresh reassessment of the problem of Holocaust universalization, highlighting how the legacy of the Holocaust is transmitted across a variety of global cultural contexts. Ranging from the representation of the Holocaust in literature and film, to how its implications inform the work of politicians and legal theorists, this volume spotlights how foundational the Holocaust is to our global social and imaginative outlook.

Norman J.W. Goda is the Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida. His books include The Holocaust: Europe, the World, and the Jews, 1918-1945 (Routledge 2022); Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War (Cambridge University Press 2006), and Tomorrow the World: Hitler, Northwest Africa, and the Path toward America (Texas A&M University Press 1998).

Edward Kissi is Professor of Africana Studies at the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida. He has published numerous pieces of work including Africans and the Holocaust: Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples (Routledge 2020) and Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia (Lexington Books 2006).

Subject: Genocide HistoryJewish StudiesHistory: 20th Century to Present


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