Perspectives on the Holocaust: Essays in Honor of Raul Hilberg [Hardcover]

James S. Pacy (Author), Alan P. Wertheimer (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1995

This volume brings together original historical, literary, and philosophical analyses of the Holocaust by some of the worlds leading scholars, including Yehuda Bauer, Christopher Browning, George Steiner, Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Richard L. Rubenstein, Robert Wolfe, Eberhard Jackel, Peter Hayes, and John K. Roth. The essays cover topics as diverse as Nazi-Jewish negotiations, corporate involvement in the Holocaust, and the writings of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel. The book also contains personal tributes by Claude Lanzmann (Shoah) and Herman Wouk.

Editorial Reviews

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This perceptive work had its origins in a 1991 international conference on the Holocaust honoring Raul Hilberg, the preeminent scholar of the Holocaust. The book contains all seven of the presentations delivered at the conference by Yehuda Bauere, Christopher Browning, Claude Lanzmann, Alvin Rosenfeld, Richard Rubenstein, George Steiner, and Herman Wouk, and four other essays by Peter Hayes, Eberhard Jackel, John Roth, and Robert Wolfe. The essays cover such topics as the writings of Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi, Nazi-Jewish negotiations, the Wannsee Conference, in which the decision on the final solution to the Jewish question was reached, German corporate involvement in the Holocaust, and perpetration of the Holocaust in Poland, as well as two tributes to Hilberg (by Shoah filmmaker Lanzmann and novelist Wouk). George Cohen

Product Details

• Hardcover: 185 pages
• Publisher: Westview Pr (Short Disc); illustrated edition edition (January 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0813320348
• ISBN-13: 978-0813320342
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,363,883 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)