After liberation : towards a sociology of the Shoah : selected essays
After Liberation -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. After Liberation -- Chapter 2. Ideas toward a Sociology of the Concentration Camp -- Chapter 3. Jews in National Socialist Camps (from a Historical and Sociological Perspective) -- Chapter 4. On the Morphology of Persecution -- Chapter 5. Th...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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New York, NY : Berghahn,
2023
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| Ausgabe: | English-language edition |
| Schlagworte: | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jews |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (168 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | After Liberation -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. After Liberation -- Chapter 2. Ideas toward a Sociology of the Concentration Camp -- Chapter 3. Jews in National Socialist Camps (from a Historical and Sociological Perspective) -- Chapter 4. On the Morphology of Persecution -- Chapter 5. The Experience of Powerlessness -- Chapter 6. Individual or Masses? -- Afterword -- Original Sources -- Index. "H.G. Adler (1910-1988) was one of the founding figures of Holocaust scholarship whose monumental monograph Theresienstadt 1941-1945. The Face of a Coerced Community (1955; 1960) was the first study to present a fully documented account of the Final Solution. This collection gathers together, for the first time in English, some of Adler's most important scholarly essays on the Shoah and connected themes. Ideas raised for the first time in his book on Theresienstadt are here taken up and developed at greater length, new accents are set, and new themes are explored. Spanning his thought across three decades they focus on the fate of the 'coerced' human being and reflect on freedom, enslavement, terror, concentration camps, persecution, the mass society, dread, loneliness, and ideology"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (168 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781805391654 1805391658 9781805391647 180539164X |