1. Kertesz, Imre. Fatelessness. Vintage. Reprint edition. 2004. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1400078639 $11
Reviewed in Publishers Weekly and The New York Review of Books
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2. Goldberg, Rita. Motherland: Growing Up With the Holocaust. The New Press. 2015 Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1620970737
Reviewed in New York Times Book Review (Aug 30, 2015): BR.30.
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3. Moorehead, Caroline. Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France. Harper; First U.S. First Printing edition. 2014. ISBN: 978-0062202475 $20
Reviewed in New York Times Book Review (Nov 2, 2014): BR.20.
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4. Rosenberg, Goran translated by Sarah Death. A BRIEF STOP ON THE ROAD FROM AUSCHWITZ. Other Press. 2015. ISBN: 978-1590516072. $20
Reviewed in New York Times Book Review (Aug 30, 2015): BR.30.
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5. Helm, Sara. Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women. Doubleday. Nan A. Talese. 2015 ISBN- 978-0385520591 $27
Reviewed in New York Times Book Review (Apr 12, 2015): BR.23.
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6. Douglas, Lawrence. The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial. Princeton University Press. 2016. ISBN- 978-0691125701. $27
Reviewed in New York Times Book Review (Feb 28, 2016): 18.
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7. Stargardt, Nicholas. The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945. Basic Books. 2015. ISBN: 978-0465018994 $22
Reviewed in New York Times Book Review (Nov 15, 2015): BR.16.
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8. Heller, Caroline. Reading Claudius: A Memoir in Two Parts. Dial Press. 2015. ISBN: 978-0385337618 $19.00
Reviewed in New York Times Book Review (Nov 15, 2015): BR.30.
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9. Winik, Jay. 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History. Simon &Schuster. 2015. ISBN: 978-1439114087 $26
Reviewed in New York Times Book Review(Nov 8, 2015): BR.39.
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10. Ferguson, Niall. KISSINGER Volume I. 1923-1968: The Idealist. Penguin Press. 2015. ISBN: 978-1594206535 $24
Reviewed in New York Times Book Review (Oct 4, 2015): BR.12.
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11. Longerich, Peter. Goebbels: A Biography. Random House. 2015. ISBN: 978-1400067510 $28
Reviewed in New York Times Book Review (May 17, 2015): BR.24.
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12. Lichtblau, Eric. The Nazis Next Door: How American Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2014. ISBN: 978-0547669199
Reviewed in New York Times Book Review (Nov 2, 2014): BR.20.
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13. Edge, Deckle. The Zone of Interest: A Novel. Knof. 2014. ISBN 978-0385353496 $22
Reviewed in New York Times Book Review (Sep 6, 2015): 24.
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14. Franklin, Ruth. A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction. Oxford University Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0195313963 $40
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15. Adams, Jenni. The Bloomsbury companion to Holocaust literature, ed. by. Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. 337p bibl index ISBN 9781441129086 cloth, $172.00; ISBN 9781472587442 ebook, $154.99
Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. Reviewed in CHOICE June 2015 vol. 52 no. 10
Holocaust Literature is an important, provocative collection of essays by international senior and emerging scholars concerned with new directions in literary response to the Holocaust. In focus, most of these essays depart from work of earlier scholars—Alvin Rosenfeld, Lawrence Langer, Sidra Ezrahi, Berel Lang—who were influenced by trauma and memory theory as well as Western and Jewish literary traditions and analyzed primarily first- and second-generation Jewish witnessing writers, victim experience and perspectives, and limits of and appropriate Holocaust representation. Contextualized in broad developments in literary theory and criticism, the emergent directions explored in Adams’s collection center mainly on non-Jewish writers (A. G. Sebald, Edgar Hilsenrath, Jonathan Littell, Bernhard Schlink, D. M. Thomas, and Benjamin Wilkomirski). Aside from an exemplary lead essay bridging classic and recent Holocaust criticism and another focused on children's perspectives, the collection elucidates the perpetrators' perspective. It interrogates accurate, embellished, and falsified testimonies; explores memory transmission of those distanced in time and place from the Holocaust; examines resistance to transmission prohibitions and taboos; and fosters comparison of the Holocaust and its representation with that of other genocides. An extensive annotated critical bibliography and glossary of major terms and concepts advance Holocaust literary studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
--S. L. Kremer, emerita, Kansas State University
Copyright 2015 American Library Association
16. Kuriloff, Emily A.Contemporary psychoanalysis and the legacy of the Third Reich: history, memory, tradition.Routledge,2014.177pbibl index ISBN9780415883184,$160.00; ISBN9780415883191pbk,$39.95; ISBN9780203845882 ebook,contact publisher for price
Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, professional. Reviewed in CHOICEFebruary 2014vol. 51no. 06
An analyst from the William Alanson White Institute in New York, Kuriloff interviewed some important members of the group of Jewish émigré psychoanalysts, asking about their and their colleagues' refugee experiences. These analysts were the core of the psychoanalytic movement and profession, mostly in the US and England. Kuriloff believes that there was a group suppression of their traumata by the Nazis, but also carefully states that each would have individual reactions. The author's question: In what way did this suppression affect theory building and the practice of analysis? Her perspective is a relational one; she assumes as prime the power and impact of the personal experiences of the analyst on the patient's interaction and treatment. Many of these analysts were, of course--not just because of their traumata, but by pre-war education--not much aligned with this perspective. They had been and remained devoted to creating the field as an "objective" and generalizable science (following Freud). The author, whose grandmother fled the Holocaust, brings her emotional knowledge to bear on her subjects' lives and behaviors. The book will provoke useful discussion of the topic. It is of interest to psychoanalysts and students of the Holocaust and the history of ideas.Summing Up:Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, professionals.
--R. H. Balsam, Yale University
17. Knowles, Anne Kelly, Tim Cole, and Alberto Giordano withErik B. Steiner. Geographies of the Holocaust, ed.byIndiana,2014.246pindex afp ISBN9780253012111cloth,$40.00
Essential. All readership levels. Reviewed in CHOICE May 2015 vol. 52 no. 09
This unique and important title offers researchers an interdisciplinary study of this genocide from a strong geographical and historical perspectivethat focuses on physical locations, times, and terrain. The work is based on six case studies, authored by both geographers and historians, which delve into analyzing the locations where different distinctive events of theShoahoccurred. The book aims to go beyondHolocaustatlases and/or other geographical studiesthat primarily focus on thelocation of events, Jewish ghettos,and SS concentration camps tofocus "on the spaces and places that people created, occupied, passed through and endured—the material landscapes that were essentialto the implementation of the Holocaust and inseparable from people's experience of it." Using scale as a primary tool of analysis, the work introduces readers to key concepts in human and physicalgeography and adds new dimensionality to Holocaust studies. Employing techniques such as GIS and cartography, as well as fieldwork and spatial ideations that use graphic artand diagrams to depict data and time lines,this work offersreaders new ways of studying the key sites and events of the Holocaust. Both students and researchers will find this work to be immenselyinformative and innovative.Summing Up:Essential. All readership levels.
--L. Lampert, California State University--Northridge
18. Hansen-Glucklich, Jennifer. Holocaust memory reframed: museums and the challenges of representation. Rutgers, 2014. 261p bibl index afp ISBN 9780813563244, $85.00; ISBN 9780813563237 pbk, $27.95
Essential. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty. Reviewed in CHOICE October 2014 vol. 52 no. 02
For centuries, museums have cared for collections of artistic, cultural, historical, and scientifically important artifacts. They have enlightened a public (both individually and collectively) on broad aspects of humanity's achievement. Holocaust museums do not fit this inherently positive definition. Their role, rather, is to commemorate, represent, evoke, and document a past of horror. In this elegantly written and structured book, Hansen-Glucklich (Univ. of Mary Washington) focuses on three distinct museums: that at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the Jewish Museum in Berlin, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. As befits their locations, the architecture of each embraces a different mission: experience and redemption in Jerusalem, absence in Berlin, universality in Washington. In each instance, the museums serve the twin goals of education and commemoration. But they should be encountered with a critical eye. Hansen-Glucklich quotes James Young: "Memory is never shaped in a vacuum; the motives of memory are never pure." What do the museums show people, and what do they fail to show? Why? Memorialization tells us as much about the present as about the past. All libraries serving students engaged in Holocaust studies should acquire this challenging book. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty.
--C. P. Vincent, Keene State College
19. Rubenfeld, Sheldon and Susan Benedict. Human subjects research after the Holocaust. Springer, 2014. 308p index afp ISBN 9783319057019 cloth, $139.00; ISBN 9783319057026 ebook, $109.00
Recommended. Bioethics collections serving upper-division undergraduates and above. Reviewed in CHOICE March 2015 vol. 52 no. 07
The Holocaust and subsequent Nuremberg Code are often understood as having a momentous impact on codified protections for human research subjects. This work, edited by Rubenfeld and Benedict (both, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Nursing), illustrates how limiting such an understanding can be. Important and unique contributions include autobiographical writings of individuals who were health care professionals or human subjects during the Nazi period and sections highlighting distinctive involvement of nursing in Nazi practices. Other chapters address specific topics such as the ethics of using data from Nazi experiments, evidence of violations of research ethics pre- and post-Nuremberg, and the subsequent steps that were necessary before the US adopted uniform ethical standards for research on human subjects. One could easily argue with the claim in the foreword that this is the definitive “examination of the research conducted by German scientists during the reign of the Nazi party”; many chapters rely strongly on secondary sources, and the focus is primarily on the US. However, the book makes many valuable and previously little-known contributions to the understanding of relationships between medicine and research during the Nazi period and ethical implications for today. Summing Up: Recommended. Bioethics collections serving upper-division undergraduates and above.
--M. D. Lagerwey, Western Michigan University
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20. Goda, Norman J. W. Jewish histories of the Holocaust: new transnational approaches, ed. Berghahn Books, 2014. 305p bibl index afp ISBN 9781782384410 cloth, $110.00
Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries. Reviewed in CHOICE April 2015 vol. 52 no. 08
This collection of historiographical essays endeavors to introduce specialists and general readers to the polyphony of Holocaust writings. The volume consists of 15 chapters organized into five sections: theoretical considerations, approaches to Jewish leadership, uses of testimony and experience, self-help and resistance, and aftermath—politics, aesthetics, and memory. In his introduction, editor Goda argues that during the last 20 years, Holocaust history has become more Jewish and that the chapters, each in its own way, represent the road signs of that change. In the new history, research has been redirected from the perpetrator to the victims, and the goal is to find the authentic Jewish voice. As a consequence, personal diaries, note books, and memoirs have gained a status that traditional historians have not previously imparted to them. Good index and select bibliography. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries.
--A. Ezergailis, Ithaca College
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21. Smilovitsky, Leonid. Jewish life in Belarus: the final decade of the Stalin regime (1944-53). Central European University, 2014. 327p bibl index ISBN 9789633860250 cloth, $60.00
Highly recommended. Most levels/libraries. Reviewed in CHOICE May 2015 vol. 52 no. 09
This remarkable contribution to Soviet and Jewish historiography reveals a largely unknown chapter: the stubbornly courageous attempts by surviving Belarusian Jews to preserve their Jewish religious and cultural identity in the face of the Soviet regime’s concerted effort to suppress Jewish identity as well as any explicit references to the annihilation of over 80 percent of Jewish Belarusians during the Holocaust. Fewer than 200,000 Jews remained after the Soviets drove the Germans out in 1944. With extensive use of Belarusian archives, including records of the secret police and interviews and correspondence with hundreds of Belarusian émigrés living in Israel and the US, Smilovitsky (Tel Aviv Univ., Israel) has written a carefully detailed study of Belarusian Jews' daily struggles to live as Jews during the final decade of Stalin’s reign. The author also makes use of the very large and growing library of research and memoirs recently published in Russian and Belarusian. This is a great work of creative, careful scholarship that tells a tragic story of stubborn courage in the final years of Stalin’s reign—a sad tale that yet inspires. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Most levels/libraries.
--R. M. Shapiro, Brooklyn College
22. Grodin, Michael A. Jewish medical resistance in the Holocaust. Berghahn Books, 2014. 308p bibl index afp ISBN 9781782384175 cloth, $110.00
Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers. CHOICE June 2015 vol. 52 no. 10
In recent years, the concept of resistance during the Holocaust has been broadened to include much more than armed resistance. This work, edited by Grodin (Boston Univ. School of Public Health), fits well within this more comprehensive interpretation, enhancing readers' understanding of resistance while providing unique and valuable evidence about the often-overlooked contributions of health care providers. Grodin deliberately included chapters on resistance in ghettos and concentration camps, ranging from individual and cultural defiance to organized armed conflict; some provide first-person accounts of health care providers (primarily physicians) who were active in the resistance, and others provide scholarly analysis. The 20 chapters in this four-part volume are well researched, based extensively on primary sources, and highly readable. This book should be read by anyone interested in understanding more about resistance to the Holocaust and the complex roles that medicine played in defying the genocidal intentions of the “Final Solution.” Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers.
--M. D. Lagerwey, Western Michigan University
23. Jockusch, Laura. Collect and record!: Jewish Holocaust documentation in early postwar Europe. Oxford, 2012. 320p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199764556, $74.00