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Author: Wolf Gruner ,
Alex Skinner
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Volume: 28
ISBN: 9781789202847
ISBN 10: 1789202841
Pages: 454
Publication Date: 03 September 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Language: English
Reviews
WINNER OF THE 2017 SYBIL HALPERN MILTON MEMORIAL BOOK PRIZE FROM THE GERMAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION 2017 YAD VASHEM INTERNATIONAL BOOK PRIZE FOR HOLOCAUST RESEARCH - FINALIST Whoever is working on the National Socialist persecution of the Jews won't be able to ignore Wolf Gruner's work. - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung This study is stimulating, closes a gap in scholarship and opens up a wide range of new sources. - Sehepunkte It should be considered as the standard work on this topic. - Historische Zeitschrift
This translation of a prizewinning monograph by a major Holocaust scholar breaks new historical ground in several ways. Based on an exceptional number of archival and secondary sources-including materials seen for the first time-this volume by Gruner (Univ. of Southern California) adds important new details to knowledge of the decimation of Czech Jewry during WW II... Extensive footnotes, a full bibliography, and six statistical tables add to the book's value, and its clear organization and lucid text are further supplemented by photographs, charts, and maps...Highly Recommended. * Choice This book is rich in details, statistics, and complex documentary narratives. It is therefore an especially valuable resource for scholars... it is a key reference for any specialist working on the Holocaust. * Austrian History Yearbook This book makes a significant contribution to historians' knowledge about the Holocaust. Gruner's discoveries regarding anti-Jewish policies that were first introduced by Czech organizations and municipalities will certainly spur much-needed further research. * European History Quarterly This is undoubtedly an important book. Readers of the English edition will also owe a debt to the excellent translation by Alex Skinner, which often includes original German terms and thus gives an insight to those with some knowledge of the language into the horrors of Nazi jargon. Gruner himself deserves great credit for providing the new insights that have resulted from his meticulous research, which even revealed that, contrary to earlier belief, Jews' pets were not killed after confiscation but found new homes. * Contemporary European Studies Whoever is working on the National Socialist persecution of the Jews won't be able to ignore Wolf Gruner's work. * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung This study is stimulating, closes a gap in scholarship and opens up a wide range of new sources. * Sehepunkte It should be considered as the standard work on this topic. * Historische Zeitschrift
Author Information
Wolf Gruner is the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, where he is also the Founding Director of the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research (previously USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research). He is the author of eleven books, ten of them on the Holocaust, including Jewish Forced Labour under the Nazis (2006).
