The Holocaust Averted

Author : Jeffrey S. Gurock
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813572398
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Holocaust Averted written by Jeffrey S. Gurock and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasingly popular genre of “alternative histories” has captivated audiences by asking questions like “what if the South had won the Civil War?” Such speculation can be instructive, heighten our interest in a topic, and shed light on accepted history. In The Holocaust Averted, Jeffrey Gurock imagines what might have happened to the Jewish community in the United States if the Holocaust had never occurred and forces readers to contemplate how the road to acceptance and empowerment for today’s American Jews could have been harder than it actually was. Based on reasonable alternatives grounded in what is known of the time, places, and participants, Gurock presents a concise narrative of his imagined war-time saga and the events that followed Hitler’s military failures. While German Jews did suffer under Nazism, the millions of Jews in Eastern Europe survived and were able to maintain their communities. Since few people were concerned with the safety of European Jews, Zionism never became popular in the United States and social antisemitism kept Jews on the margins of society. By the late 1960s, American Jewish communities were far from vibrant. This alternate history—where, among many scenarios, Hitler is assassinated, Japan does not bomb Pearl Harbor, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt is succeeded after two terms by Robert A. Taft—does cause us to review and better appreciate history. As Gurock tells his tale, he concludes every chapter with a short section that describes what actually happened and, thus, further educates the reader.

Author : Jeffrey S. Gurock
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813572401
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Holocaust Averted written by Jeffrey S. Gurock and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Holocaust Averted, Jeffrey Gurock imagines what might have happened to the Jewish community in the United States if the Holocaust had never occurred and forces readers to contemplate how the road to acceptance and empowerment for today’s American Jews could have been harder than it actually was.

Author : Miroslav Marinov Ph D
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995006560
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holocaust Averted - Bulgarian Jews in World War II written by Miroslav Marinov Ph D and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-29 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, most of the European Jews perished by bullets, starvation and in concentration camps. The Jews in Bulgaria avoided that fate, despite Hitler's repeated attempts to impose his "final solution" on the country. Until recently, not enough was known about those events and as the knowledge expanded, so did the arguments about what exactly happened, as it is the case with almost every historical event in the Balkans. Many individuals and groups contributed to the survival of the 50,000 Bulgarian Jews and it is difficult to pinpoint who played the crucial role. Was it King Boris III, the Parliament, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, the Jewish Consistory, the Communist Party or the ordinary people? Unlike Germany, where people generally were indifferent to the fate of the Jews, many Bulgarians, with different social status and political convictions, resisted the looming catastrophe. The book "Holocaust Averted - Bulgarian Jews in World War II" is the result of years of research, based on over one thousand books, articles, memoirs, letters and other archival materials. Reflecting the fact that Bulgaria is little known throughout the world, the book provides a concise introduction to the Bulgarian history, with special emphasis on the long and volatile cohabitation of Bulgarians and Jews, during which they often faced the same challenges. The main chapters of the book analyze the factors that averted the Holocaust in Bulgaria and especially the specific roles played by countries, organizations and individuals in those highly dramatic events. To place the World War II events in Bulgaria in a wider historical context, they are compared with the experiences of other European countries, where things developed differently. The book also covers the controversial issue about the deportation of over 11,000 Jews from the territories occupied by German and Bulgarian troops in Macedonia and Aegean Thrace. The conclusion is that history is complicated, the mechanical application of simplistic moral judgments to the war time in Bulgaria fails to explain the complexity of the behavior of all participants involved in the events. Illustrated with photographs and maps.

Author : Jonathan Dekel-Chen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253004780
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anti-Jewish Violence written by Jonathan Dekel-Chen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although overshadowed in historical memory by the Holocaust, the anti-Jewish pogroms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were at the time unrivaled episodes of ethnic violence. Incorporating newly available primary sources, this collection of groundbreaking essays by researchers from Europe, the United States, and Israel investigates the phenomenon of anti-Jewish violence, the local and transnational responses to pogroms, and instances where violence was averted. Focusing on the period from World War I through Russia's early revolutionary years, the studies include Poland, Ukraine, Belorussia, Lithuania, Crimea, and Siberia.

Author : Louise Olga Vasvári
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557533962
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imre Kertész and Holocaust Literature written by Louise Olga Vasvári and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Peter Novick
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547349610
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Holocaust In American Life written by Peter Novick and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2000-09-20 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prize-winning historian Peter Novick illuminates the reasons Americans ignored the Holocaust for so long -- how dwelling on German crimes interfered with Cold War mobilization; how American Jews, not wanting to be thought of as victims, avoided the subject. He explores in absorbing detail the decisions that later moved the Holocaust to the center of American life: Jewish leaders invoking its memory to muster support for Israel and to come out on top in a sordid competition over what group had suffered most; politicians using it to score points with Jewish voters. With insight and sensitivity, Novick raises searching questions about these developments. Have American Jews, by making the Holocaust the emblematic Jewish experience, given Hitler a posthumous victory, tacitly endorsing his definition of Jews as despised pariahs? Does the Holocaust really teach useful lessons and sensitize us to atrocities, or, by making the Holocaust the measure, does it make lesser crimes seem "not so bad"? What are we to make of the fact that while Americans spend hundreds of millions of dollars for museums recording a European crime, there is no museum of American slavery?

Author : Oluwole J. Odeyemi
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1456793292
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where God Was on 9/11 written by Oluwole J. Odeyemi and published by Author House. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a classic piece that revealed critically and comprehensively on the mysteries and the spiritual underpinnings of the world-changing terror events of 9/11. It promises to be a point by point, blow by blow biblical analysis that are reality related, and which cannot be doubted by even the most agnostic. The book also endeavoured to shed light on many other topical issues which has remained bizzare or eversince been shrouded in mystery vis a vis biblical accounts and humanity. Such other issues include the truth about the Jewish Holocaust, the angelically induced human breeding experiments in the pre-Deluvian age, the unseverable umbillcal cord that tied the USA with Isreal, and as well the denial by God of all the omni-principles that had been fraudlently ascribed unto Him by man and his reckless philosophy. It promises to be a most intriguing journey ever made in the world of knowledge. Please visit one of my sites for more detailes: [email protected] [email protected]

Author : E. Thomas Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780896728820
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Karski written by E. Thomas Wood and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An American "Dreyfus Affair" By all accounts, Uriah Phillips Levy, the first Jewish commodore in the U.S. Navy, was both a principled and pugnacious man. On his way to becoming a flag officer, he was subjected to six courts-martial and engaged in a duel, all in response to antisemitic taunts and harassment from his fellow officers. Yet he never lost his love of country or desire to serve in its navy. When the navy tried to boot him out, he took his case to the highest court and won. This richly detailed historical novel closely follows the actual events of Levy's life-running away from his Philadelphia home to serve as a cabin boy at age ten; his service during the War of 1812 aboard the Argus and internment at the notorious British prison at Dartmoor; his campaign for the abolition of flogging in the Navy; and his purchase and restoration of Monticello as a tribute to his personal hero, Thomas Jefferson. Set against a broad panorama of U.S. history, Commodore Levy describes the American Jewish community from 1790 to 1860, the beginnings of the U.S. Navy, and the great nautical traditions of the Age of Sail before its surrender to the age of steam"--""A novel focusing on the life of Uriah Philips Levy, the first Jewish commodore in the US Navy."--Provided by publisher"-

Author : Alan Rosen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107652618
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature of the Holocaust written by Alan Rosen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During and in the aftermath of the dark period of the Holocaust, writers across Europe and America sought to express their feelings and experiences through their writings. This book provides a comprehensive account of these writings through essays from expert scholars, covering a wide geographic, linguistic, thematic and generic range of materials. Such an overview is particularly appropriate at a time when the corpus of Holocaust literature has grown to immense proportions and when guidance is needed in determining a canon of essential readings, a context to interpret them, and a paradigm for the evolution of writing on the Holocaust. The expert contributors to this volume, who negotiate the literature in the original languages, provide insight into the influence of national traditions and the importance of language, especially but not exclusively Yiddish and Hebrew, to the literary response arising from the Holocaust.

Author : Alexander Shtromas
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739105344
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Totalitarianism and the Prospects for World Order written by Alexander Shtromas and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkably prescient thinker, Aleksandras Shtromas devoted his life to understanding totalitarianism and political change. This posthumous collection of writings, edited by Robert Faulkner and Daniel J. Mahoney, addresses some of the topics that preoccupied Shtromas throughout his life, including totalitarian regimes, postcommunist transitions, the fates of the Baltic states, and the nature of political revolutions.