Awards

• Runner-up for <P>National Jewish Book Awards, Holocaust Category awarded by the Jewish Book Council</P> 2017 (United States)
• Runner-up for National Jewish Book Awards, Holocaust Category awarded by the Jewish Book Council 2017 (United States)
• Winner of The Canadian Jewish Literary Awards (History) awarded by the Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies 2016 (Canada)

Overview

Although difficult to imagine, sixty years ago the Holocaust had practically no visibility in examinations of the Second World War. Yet today it is understood to be not only one of the defining moments of the twentieth century but also a touchstone in a quest for directions on how to avoid such catastrophes. In Lessons of the Holocaust, the distinguished historian Michael R. Marrus challenges the notion that there are definitive lessons to be deduced from the destruction of European Jewry. Instead, drawing on decades of studying, writing about, and teaching the Holocaust, he shows how its ""lessons"" are constantly challenged, debated, altered, and reinterpreted. A succinct, stimulating analysis by a world-renowned historian, Lessons of the Holocaust is the perfect guide for the general reader to the historical and moral controversies which infuse the interpretation of the Holocaust and its significance.

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9781442630062

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Reviews

'Lessons of the Holocaust is a masterful work of far-reaching significance for scholars, undergraduates and graduate students, and non-specialists that only gains in relevance with time.' - Rebekah Klein-Pejsov? - Canadian Journal of History - vol 53:01:2018 'Marrus offers a bold and superb assessment of prescriptions drawn from Holocaust history. This is as much an exploration of the uses and abuses of Holocaust history as an intellectual biography, a commentary on decades of studying and teaching the Holocaust.' - Joanna Sliwa - H-Poland/H-Net Reviews January 2018

`Marrus offers a bold and superb assessment of prescriptions drawn from Holocaust history. This is as much an exploration of the uses and abuses of Holocaust history as an intellectual biography, a commentary on decades of studying and teaching the Holocaust.' -- Joanna Sliwa * H-Poland/H-Net Reviews January 2018 *

Author Information

Michael R. Marrus is the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies and the former dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto. Margaret MacMillan is the Warden of St Antony’s College and a professor of International History at the University of Oxford.

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