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New Books in Genocide Studies
William L. Patterson, “We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People” (International Publishers, 2017)
William L. Patterson
We Charge Genocide
The Crime of Government Against the Negro People
International Publishers Co., 2017

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & Society September 25, 2020 Jeff Bachman

In 2017, We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People, the historic petition authored by William L. Patterson, was published in its third edition. It has been nearly 70 years since Patterson, who passed away in 1980, and Paul Roberson, who passed away in 1976, presented the... Read More
David Livingstone Smith, “On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It” (Oxford UP, 2020)
David Livingstone Smith
On Inhumanity
Dehumanization and How to Resist It
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Sociology September 18, 2020 Yakir Englander 

The Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust, the lynching of African Americans, the colonial slave trade: these are horrific episodes of mass violence spawned from racism and hatred. We like to think that we could never see such evils again–that we would stand up and fight. But something deep in the human... Read More
T. P. Kaplan and W. Gruner, “Resisting Persecution: Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust” (Berghahn, 2020)
T. P. Kaplan and W. Gruner (eds.)
Resisting Persecution
Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust
Berghahn Books, 2020

New Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & Faith September 8, 2020 Kelly McFall

In 20 years of studying the Holocaust, it didn’t occur to me that German officials might, when petitioned by German Jews or by Germans advocating for German Jews, change their minds.  But it turns out that, sometimes, they did. And even when they didn’t, petitioning local, regional or national officials... Read More
Carolyn J. Dean, “The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide” (Cornell UP, 2019)
Carolyn J. Dean
The Moral Witness
Trials and Testimony after Genocide
Cornell University Press, 2019

New Books in Eastern European StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society September 7, 2020 Natasha Margulis

The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide (Cornell University Press, 2019) is the first cultural history of the “witness to genocide” in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from... Read More
Rafael Medoff, “The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust” (JPS, 2019)
Rafael Medoff
The Jews Should Keep Quiet
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust
Jewish Publication Society, 2019

NBN Book of the DayNBN Special SeriesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithVan Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel August 31, 2020 Renee Garfinkel

Like so many Americans, American Jews supported President Roosevelt. They adored him. They believed in him. They idolized him. Perhaps they shouldn’t have. Based on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust (Jewish Publication Society) reassesses the hows and... Read More
Marion Kaplan, “Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal” (Yale UP, 2020)
Marion Kaplan
Hitler’s Jewish Refugees
Hope and Anxiety in Portugal
Yale University Press, 2020

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & Faith August 14, 2020 Robin Buller

Marion Kaplan’s riveting book,  Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal (Yale University Press) describes the dramatic experiences of Jewish refugees as they fled Hitler’s regime and then lived in limbo in Portugal until they could reach safer havens abroad. Drawing attention not only to the social and physical... Read More
David Livingstone Smith, “On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It” (Oxford UP 2020)
David Livingstone Smith
On Inhumanity
Dehumanization and How to Resist It
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network August 10, 2020 Carrie Figdor

The phenomenon of dehumanization is associated with such atrocities as the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the Holocaust in World War II. In these and other cases, people are described in ways that imply that they are less than fully human as a prelude to committing extreme forms of violence... Read More
Richard Breitman, “The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies”(Oxford Academic/USHMM)
Richard Breitman
The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Oxford Academic/USHMM, 2020

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in World Affairs August 7, 2020 Kelly McFall

The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies is turning twenty-five.  One of the first academic journals focused on the study of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies, it has been one of a few journals that led the field in new directions. So it seemed appropriate to mark the moment by talking with... Read More
Nick Estes, “Our History is the Future” (Verso, 2019)
Nick Estes
Our History is the Future
Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Verso, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in Native American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & Society July 16, 2020 Jeff Bachman

For the second time, Nick Estes has been gracious enough to participate in a New Books Network podcast to discuss his book Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (Verso, 2019). (Listen to Ryan Tate’s interview for New... Read More
Sabine Hildebrandt, “The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich” (Berghahn, 2017)
Sabine Hildebrandt
The Anatomy of Murder
Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich
Berghahn Books, 2017

New Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network July 9, 2020 Hope Longe

Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians. While politics and racial laws drove many anatomists from the profession, most who remained joined the Nazi party, and some helped to develop the scientific basis for its... Read More

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