Synopses & Reviews
This volume presents the results of nearly fifty years of scholarship on the Holocaust by the world's most eminent researchers. Approaching the Shoah from diverse points of view, historians and sociologists, political scientists and theologians, literary scholars and psychologists disclose the insights yielded by their investigations. Growing out of the inaugural conference of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Research Institute, the book defines the state of knowledge about the Holocaust a half century after the event.
Synopsis
This benchmark volume, which grew out of the inaugural conference of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, defines the state of knowledge about the Holocaust a half century after the event. The book provides a penetrating survey of what the most authoritative research has yielded and a guide for where future study of the Holocaust needs to go.