Jewish Studies

The Holocaust Encyclopedia provides the public, educators, faculty, students, and scholars with hundreds of articles, access to the museum's digitized collections, critical thinking and discussion questions, lesson plans, oral histories, videos, and much more. It includes over 950 articles in English.

A comprehensive introduction to the history of the Holocaust, this volume addresses such diverse issues as: genocide in German and European history; the eugenic roots of Nazi antisemitism; the response of Europe's Jewish communities to persecution and destruction; the "Final Solution" as the German occupation instituted it across Europe; rescue and rescuer motivations; the problem of prosecuting war crimes; gender and Holocaust experience; the persecution of non-Jewish victims; and the Holocaust in postwar cultural contexts.

Forward-looking and multi-disciplinary, this handbook is thematically divided into five broad sections. Part One, Enablers, concentrates on the broad and necessary contextual conditions for the Holocaust. Part Two, Protagonists, concentrates on the principal persons and groups involved in the Holocaust and grapples with the conventional interpretive categories of perpetrator, victim, and bystander. Part Three, Settings, concentrates on the particular places, sites, and physical circumstances of events. Part Four, Representations, engages complex questions about what meaning or lack of meaning might be attributed to the Holocaust through historical analysis, textual interpretation, art, philosophy, and religion. Part Five, Aftereffects, explores the Holocaust's impact on politics and ethics, education and religion, national identities and international relations, the prospects for genocide prevention, and the defence of human rights.

This bibliography by eminent Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt is an annotated reading list on various topics in Holocaust Studies.

The graphic history of the Nazi attempt to destroy the Jews of Europe during the Second World War is illustrated in this series of 333 detailed maps. The maps, and the text and photographs that accompany them, powerfully depict the fate of the Jews between 1933 and 1945, while also setting the chronological story in the wider context of the war itself. The maps include: historical background - from the effects of anti-Jewish violence between 1880 and 1933 to the geography of the existing Jewish communities before the advent of the Nazis the beginning of the violence - from the destruction of the synagogues in November 1938 to Jewish migrations and deportations, the ghettos, and the establishment of the concentration camps and death camps throughout German-dominated Europe the spread of Nazi rule - the fate of the Jews throughout Europe including Germany, Austria, Poland, Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Russia, Denmark, Norway, France, Holland, Belgium, Italy, and the Baltic States Jewish revolts and resistance - acts of armed resistance, fighting in the forests, individual acts of courage Jews in hiding - escape routes, Christians who helped Jews the death marches - the advance of the Allies and the liberation of the camps, the survivors, and the final death toll. This revised edition includes a new section which gives an insight into the layout and organization of some of the most significant places of the Holocaust, including Auschwitz, Treblinka and the Warsaw ghetto, maps that will be especially useful to those visiting the sites.

This volume discusses the participation of Jews as soldiers, journalists, and propagandists in combating the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War (as the period between June 22, 1941, and May 9, 1945 was known in the Soviet Union). This is one of the first books to combine the study of Russian and Yiddish materials, reflecting the nature of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, which, for the first time during the Soviet period, included both Yiddish-language and Russian-language writers.