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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
Francine Hirsch, “Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Francine Hirsch
Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg
A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies July 9, 2020 Ryan Stackhouse

How did an authoritarian regime help lay the cornerstones of human rights and international law? Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II  (Oxford University Press, 2020) argues that Anglo-American dominated histories capture the moment while missing the story. Drawing upon secret... Read More
Stephan Talty, “The Good Assassin” (HMH, 2020)
Stephan Talty
The Good Assassin
How A Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down The Butcher of Latvia
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020

New Books in Eastern European StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Israel StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyVan Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel July 6, 2020 Renee Garfinkel

History that reads like a thriller; The Good Assassin: How A Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down The Butcher of Latvia (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) by Stephan Talty is the untold story of an Israeli spy’s epic journey to bring the notorious Butcher of Latvia to justice—a... Read More
Adam Brown, “Judging ‘Privileged’ Jews: Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the ‘Grey Zone'” (Berghahn, 2015)
Adam Brown
Judging 'Privileged' Jews
Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone'
Berghahn Books, 2015

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FilmNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network July 2, 2020 Yakir Englander 

The Nazis’ persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their persecutors. Many in the camps and ghettos came to hold so-called “privileged” positions, and their behavior has often been judged as self-serving and harmful to fellow inmates. Such... Read More
Vincent Bevins, “The Jakarta Method” (Public Affairs, 2020)
Vincent Bevins
The Jakarta Method
Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade & the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
Public Affairs, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network July 1, 2020 Michael G. Vann

Why did the word “Jakarta” appear as graffiti on the streets of Santiago in 1973? Why did left-wing Chilean activists receive postcards in the mail with the ominous message “Jakarta is coming”? Why did a Brazilian general lose his temper in an interview with university students, threaten their safety, and... Read More
John Roosa, “Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965-1966 in Indonesia” (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
John Roosa
Buried Histories
The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965-1966 in Indonesia
University of Wisconsin Press, 2020

New Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Southeast Asian Studies June 24, 2020 Michael G. Vann

On the night of September 30/October 1, 1965, a bungled coup d’état resulted in the deaths of a handful of Indonesian generals and a young girl. Within days the Indonesian army claimed that the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), the largest communist party outside of the Soviet Union and the People’s... Read More
David Slucki et al., “Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust” (Wayne State UP, 2020)
David Slucki et al.
Laughter After
Humor and the Holocaust
Wayne State University Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FilmNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Popular CultureNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network June 22, 2020 Max Kaiser

In Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust  (Wayne State University Press, 2020), Co-editors David Slucki,  Loti Smorgon Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life and Culture at the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash University, Gabriel N. Finder, professor in the department of German Languages and Literatures and former director of the... Read More
Gabriel Finder, “Justice behind the Iron Curtain: Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland” (U Toronto Press, 2018)
Gabriel Finder
Justice behind the Iron Curtain
Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland
University of Toronto Press, 2018

New Books in Eastern 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 & FaithNew Books Network June 22, 2020 Kelly McFall

When Americans think about trials of Holocaust perpetrators, they generally think of the Nuremberg Trials or the trial of Adolf Eichmann or perhaps of the Frankfort trials of perpetrators from Auschwitz. If they think of Polish trials at all, they likely assume these were show trials driven by political goals rather... Read More
John K. Roth, “Sources of Holocaust Insight: Learning and Teaching about the Genocide” (Cascade Books, 2020)
John K. Roth
Sources of Holocaust Insight
Learning and Teaching about the Genocide
Cascade Books, 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 & FaithNew Books Network June 15, 2020 Kelly McFall

At Newman I co-teach a class titled “The Holocaust and its Legacies.”  I teach the course with a Professor of Theology and it’s designed to help students understand the ways in which the Holocaust shaped the world they live in. It is, in a sense, designed to help students gain... Read More

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