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Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and its Aftermath

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Gray Zones

Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and its Aftermath

Edited by Jonathan Petropoulos and John Roth

440 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-84545-071-7 $145.00/£107.00 / Hb / Published (July 2005)

ISBN  978-1-84545-302-2 $34.95/£27.95 / Pb / Published (October 2006)

eISBN 978-1-78238-201-0 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781845450717


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"...a useful addition to Holocaust historiography and literature. It is accessible for students and teachers as well as the general reader. It provides a taste of what the world of Holocaust scholarship is actively engaged in--the constant exploration and understanding of the history of the murder of the Jews of Europe and the ongoing effect of these events on the world today. Hopefully, this book will stimulate others to read further and deeper."   · H-German

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Few essays about the Holocaust are better known or more important than Primo Levi’s reflections on what he called “the gray zone,” a reality in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. In this volume accomplished Holocaust scholars, among them Raul Hilberg, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Christopher Browning, Peter Hayes, and Lynn Rapaport, explore the terrain that Levi identified. Together they bring a necessary interdisciplinary focus to bear on timely and often controversial topics in cutting-edge Holocaust studies that range from historical analysis to popular culture. While each essay utilizes a particular methodology and argues for its own thesis, the volume as a whole advances the claim that the more we learn about the Holocaust, the more complex that event turns out to be. Only if ambiguities and compromises in the Holocaust and its aftermath are identified, explored, and at times allowed to remain--lest resolution deceive us--will our awareness of the Holocaust and its implications be as full as possible.

Jonathan Petropoulos is the John V. Croul Professor of European History and Director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, at Claremont McKenna College.

John Roth is that Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, at Claremont McKenna College.

Subject: Genocide HistoryJewish Studies
Area: EuropeGermany


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