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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “Paperback. Light shelf wear. 227 pages.”
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Personalize
- No
- Signed
- No
- Custom Bundle
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Personalized
- No
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Vintage
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780521645973
- Book Title
- Reading the Holocaust
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Holocaust, Europe / General
- Item Weight
- 11.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 238 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521645972
ISBN-13
9780521645973
eBay Product ID (ePID)
455091
Product Key Features
Book Title
Reading the Holocaust
Number of Pages
238 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Holocaust, Europe / General
Publication Year
1999
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
11.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-053636
Reviews
'Beautifully written and exactly felt, Reading the Holocaust is a major contribution to collective remembering and to the register of what happens.' Clifford Geertz, '... a brave, towering book which deserves to become famous ...'. The Australian Book Review 'This is a deeply humane book; one need only listen to a current news report to understand why it is a necessary one.' The Times Literary Supplement
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
940.53/18/072
Table Of Content
1. Beginning; 2. Impediments; Part I. Victims: 3. Witnessing; 4. Resisting; Part II. Perpetrators: 5. Defining: inside the grey zone: the Auschwitz Sonderkommando; 6. Leaders; 7. The men in the green tunics: the order police in Poland; 8; The Auschwitz SS; 9. Representing the Holocaust.
Synopsis
Clendinnen explores the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' points of view, as they appear in histories, memoirs, films and poems., Fifty years after their occurrence, the events of the Holocaust remain for some of their most dedicated students as morally and intellectually baffling, as 'unthinkable', as they were at their first rumoring. Reading the Holocaust challenges that bafflement, and the demoralization that attends it. Exploring the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' points of view, as it appears in histories and memoirs, films and poems, Inga Clendinnen seeks to dispel what she calls the 'Gorgon effect': the sickening of imagination and curiosity and the draining of the will that afflict so many of us when we try to look squarely at the persons and processes implicated in the Holocaust. Searching, eloquent, and elegantly written, her book is an uncompromising attempt to extract the comprehensible - the practical, human reality - from the unthinkable. Reading the Holocaust has won the Premier's Award for General History in New South Wales., Exploring the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' points of view, as it appears in histories, memoirs, films and poems, Inga Clendinnen seeks to dispel the sickening of imagination and curiosity and the draining of the will that afflict many who try to understand the Holocaust. Searching, eloquent, and elegantly written, the book is an uncompromising attempt to extract the comprehensible from the unthinkable., The events of the Holocaust remain unthinkable to many men and women, as morally and intellectually baffling today as they were a half century ago. Inga Clendinnen seeks to dispel what she calls the "Gorgon effect: " the sickening of imagination and the draining of the will that afflict so many of us when we try to confront the horrors of this history. Clendinnen explores the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' points of view. She discusses the remarkable survivor testimonies of writers such as Primo Levi and Charlotte Delbo, the vexing issue of "resistance" in the camps, and survivors' strategies for understanding the motivations of the Nazi leadership. She focuses an anthropologist's precise gaze on the actions of the murderers in the police battalions and among the SS in the camps. Finally she considers how the Holocaust has been portrayed in poetry, fiction, and film. Searching and eloquent, Reading the Holocaust is an uncompromising attempt to extract the comprehensible--the recognizably human--from the unthinkable inhuman acts of the Holocaust. Inga Clendinnen is the author of Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 and Aztecs: An Interpretation, both published by Cambridge University Press.
LC Classification Number
D804.348 .C54 1999
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- b***i (39)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchasePackage arrived in good condition as described and in a timely fashion!!! Excellent transaction and service!!! Thank you very much!!!
- y***b (255)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseItem arrived quickly and well packaged. Seller communication was fantastic! Very pleased with purchase. Overall, great value for item purchased. Thank you!Bianchi Model 57 Remedy Holster 25018 Black Gunleather RH Colt 1911 NEW Size 10 (#116297520111)
- n***a (363)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchasePerfect sights, great price, super-fast processing and shipping!! Item was just as described and shown, brand new in package. Thank you so much!!