Z. Ozsvath
HUHI 7345 and HUSL 6378
Short Bibliography of topics on the Holocaust
Fascism
Richard Bessel, ed. Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: Comparisons and Contrasts.
Roger Eatwell, Fascism: A History.
Roger Griffin, The Nature of Fascism.
Walter Laquer, Fascism: Past and Present.
Charles S. Maier, “The Economics of Fascism and Nazism,” in Search of Stability: Explorations
in Historical Political Economy.
Hans Mommsen, From Weimar to Auschwitz: Essays on German History.
George Mosse, International Fascism 1920-1945.
Stanley G. Payne, A History of Fascism, 1914-1945.
Zeev Sternhell, Mario Sznajder, and Maia Asheri, The Birth of Fascist Ideology: From Cultural
Rebellion to Political Revolution.
Nazism and the Churches
Edward Alexander, “In the Shadow of the Vatican: The Path from Italy to Auschwitz,” in The
Holocaust and the War of Ideas.
John Cornwell, Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
Allen Davies, “On Secular Myth and Their Religious Translation: Some Historical Reflections, “
in Allen Davies, ed., Antisemitism and the Foundations of Christianity.
Saul Friedlander, Pius XII and the Third Reich: A Documentation.
____________, Counterfeit Nazi: The Ambiguity of the Good
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Moshe Y. Herczl, Christianity and the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry.
Robert Michael, Theological Myth, German Antisemitism and the Holocaust: The Case of
Martin Niemoeller,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2 (1987), 1:105-22.
John Morley, Vatican Diplomacy and the Jews during the Holocaust 1939-43.
Georges Passelecq and Bernard Suchecky, The Hidden Encyclical of Pius XI
Antisemitism
Shmuel Almog, Antisemitism through the Ages.
J. Carmichael, The Satanizing of the Jews: Origins and Development of Mystical Antisemitism
M. Cohen, Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages
Normann Cohn, Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World-Conspiracy and the
“Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Alan Dundes, The Blood Libel Legend: A Case Book in anti-Semitic Folklore.
J. Gager The Origins of Antisemitism in Pagan and Christin Antiquity
R. Hsia, The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany.
Jacob Katz, From Prejudice to Destruction: Antisemitism 1700-1933
Gavin I. Langmuir, Toward a Definition of Antisemitism.
M. Luther, “Angainst the Jews and Their Lies,” in Luther’s Work, ed., Franklin Sherman, 47,
122-306.
H.yam Maccoby, Judas Iscariot and the Myth of Jewish Evil
_____________, The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity
R.I. Moore, The Formation of a Persecuting Society
Po-chia, The Myth of Ritual Murder Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany
L. Poliakov, The History of Anti-Semitism.
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Peter Pulzer, The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria.
J. Trachtenberg, The Devil and the Jews
Robert Wistrich, Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred.
Nazism, the Third Reich, and the Holocaust
T. Abel, The Nazi Movement
D. Bankier, The Germans and the Final Solution: Public Opinion under Nazism
N. Baynes, ed., The Speeches of Hitler
Y. Bauer, A History of the Holocaust
_______, Jews for Sale?
_______, Rethinking the Holocaust
W. Boelcke, ed., The Secret Conference of Dr. Goebbels
M. Broszat, The Hitler State
K. Bracher, The German Dictatorship
R. Breitman, The Architect of Genocide
C. Browning, The Final Solution and the German Foreign Office
__________, Ordinary Men
E. Crankshaw, The Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny
A. Bullock, Hitler
L. Dawidowicz, The War against the Jews
J. Dalarue, The Gestapo
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R. Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews
R. Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz
K.P. Fischer, Nazi Germany: A New History
K. Feig, Hitler’s Death Camps: The Sanity of Madness
S. Friedlander, Nazi Germany and the Jews: Years of Persecution, 1933-1939
___________, Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Extermination, 1939-1945
___________, “From Anti-Semitism to Extermination: A Historiographical Study of Nazi
Policies toward the Jews,” Yad Vashem Studies 16 (1984).
M. Gilbert, The Holocaust: 1933-45
D. Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners
Jan T. Gross, Neighbors
Y. Gutman, ed., Encyclopedia of the Holocaust
E. Jackel, Hitler’s Weltanschauung
C. A. Kaplan, Scroll of Agony
S. T. Katz, The Holocaust in Historical Context
I. Müller, Hitler’s Justice
B. Lang, Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide
W. Laquer, Russia and Germany
R. J. Lifton, The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
N. Levin, The Holocaust
G. Reitlinger, The Final Solution
R. Rosenbaum, The Great Dictator: Explaining Hitler
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A. Weissberg, Desperate Mission
L. Yahil, The Holocaust
R. Wistrich, Hitler and the Holocaust
Responses to the Holocaust
J. Amery, At the Mind’s Limit
J. Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena
Y. Bauer, The Holocaust in Historical Perspective
A Donat, The Holocaust Kingdom
A. R. Eckardt, Elder and Younger Brothers
E. Fackenheim, Encounters between Judaism and Modern Philosophy
____________, The Jewish Return into History
H. Fein, Accounting for Genocide
S. Friedlander, When Memory Comes
P. Haas, Morality after Auschwitz
F. Katz, Ordinary People and Extraordinary Evil: A Report on the Beguilings of Evil
S. Katz Post-Holocaust Dialogues
J. Karski, Story of a Secret State
L. Langer, Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruin of Memory
W. Laquer, The Terrible Secret
C. Milosz, The Crisis of German Ideology
A. Pavelczynska, Values and Violence in Auschwitz
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L. Poliakov, Harvest of Hate
S, Reichel, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
A. Rosenberg and G. E. Meyers, ed., Echoes from the Holocaust
A. Rosenfeld, Ed. Thinking about the Holocaust
R. Rubinstein, After Auschwitz
L. Shelley, ed. The Union Kommando in Auschwitz
S. Sontag, “Fascinating Fascism,” in Under the Sign of Saturn
G. Steiner, “Season in Hell,” in In Bluebeard’s Castle
N. Toll, When Memory Speaks
S. Wiesenthal, The Sunflower
D. S. Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews
___________, A Race against Death: Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust
The Literature of the Holocaust
I. Aichinger, Herod’s Children
Y. Amichai, Not of this Time, Not of this Place
A. Appelfeld, The Age of Wonders
Badenheim 1939
Tzili
G. Bassini, The Garden of the Finzi-Contini
J. Becker, Jacob the Liar
S. Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet
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J. Bor, The Terezin Requiem
T. Borowski, This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
R. Bryks, Kiddush Hashem
P. Celan, Poems (M. Hamburger or J. Felsteiner translations)
Charlotte Delbo, None of Us Will Return
I. Fink, A Scrap of Time
_______, Traces
L. Fuks, Mr. Theodore Mundstock
P. Gascar, Beasts and Men and the Seed
G. Haim, The Chocolate Deal
E. Jabes, The Book of Questions
Y. Kaniuk, Adam Resurrected
I. Karmel, An Estate of Memory
Ka-tzetnik, 135633, Atrocity
________, House of Dolls
I. Kertesz, Fatelessness
J. Kosinski, The Painted Bird
I. Leitner, Fragments of Isabella
C. Levi, The Watch
P. Levi, The Drowned and the Saved
______, If Not Now, When?
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______, The Reawakening
______, Survival in Auschwitz
J. Lind, Landscape in Concrete
_______, Soul of Wood
A. Lustig, Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova
________, Night and Hope
________, Diamonds of the Night
________, Darkness Casts No Shadow
D. Pagis, Points of Departure (Poetry)
M. Radnoti, Foamy Sky (Poetry)
P. Rawitz, Blood from the Sky
A. Rudnicki, Ascent to Heaven
N. Sachs, O the Chimneys (Poetry)
A. Schwartz-Bart, The Last of the Just
A. Sebald, Emigrants
_________, Austerlitz
E. Sicher, The Holocaust Novel
A. Siegal, Upon the Head of the Goat
J. Semprum, The Long Voyage
I.B. Singer, Enemies: A Love Story
J. F. Steiner, Treblinka
A. Sutzkever, Burnt Pearls: Ghetto Poems of Abraham Sutzkever (Poetry)
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E. Wallant, The Pawnbroker
J. Weil, Mendelssohn Is on the Roof
E. Wiesel, Night
_________, The Accident
_________, Down
Responses to Holocaust Literature
E. Alexander, The Resonance of Dust
M. Anissimov, Primo Levi
S. DeKoven Ezrahi, By Words Alone
D. Hirsch, Deconstruction after Auschwitz
J. Felsteiner. Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew
E. Isser, Stages of Annihilation
L. Langer, The Age of Atrocity
_______, The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination
_______, Admitting the Holocaust
L. Langer, Preempting the Holocaust
Z. Ozsvath and M. Satz, “The Audacity of Expressing the Inexpressible: The Relation Between
Moral Aesthetic Considerations in Holocaust Literature,” in Judaism (1985)
Z Ozsvath, In the Footsteps of Orpheus: The Live and Times of Miklos Radnoti
________, “Celan, Radnoti, and Changes in Central European Poetry, in Comparative
Cultural Studies and Post-1989 Central European Culture.
D. Patterson, Literature and Spirit
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__________, Sun Turned to Darkness: Memory and Recovery in the Holocaust Memoir
A. Rosenfeld, A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature
__________, Ed. Thinking about the Holocaust
G. Sween, Dramatic Anguish: Aesthetic and Ethical Tensions in Holocaust Theater
Journals
(Below are a few Journals that might be helpful)
American Jewish Congress Monthly
Commentary
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Judaism
Yad Vashem Studies
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