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New Books in Genocide Studies
Deborah E. Lipstadt, “Antisemitism: Here and Now” (Schocken, 2019)
Deborah Lipstadt
Antisemitism
Here and Now
Schocken, 2019

New Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Israel StudiesNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network March 28, 2019 Lindsey Jackson

Over the past decade, and especially in the last several years, anti-Semitic crimes have increased significantly. According to FBI Statistics, hate crimes against Jews in the US spiked 37% between 2016 and 2017. We are witnessing similar trends in Canada, where anti-Semitic crimes increased by 60% since last year, according... Read More
Amit Pinchevski, “Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Amit Pinchevski
Transmitted Wounds
Media and the Mediation of Trauma
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network March 13, 2019 Tal Zalmanovich

What does it mean to consider trauma and media from the perspective of technology and not from that of the subject of trauma, the clinician or the witness? In Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma (Oxford University Press, 2019), Amit Pinchevski carries out this thought experiment to great effect.... Read More
Susan Thomson, “Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace” (Yale UP, 2018)
Susan Thomson
Rwanda
From Genocide to Precarious Peace
Yale University Press, 2018

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network February 25, 2019 Kelly McFall

How do you put Humpty-Dumpty back together again? Susan Thomson‘s new book Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace (Yale University Press, 2018) examines the postwar history of Rwanda to consider the ways the Rwandan genocide shaped governance, policy and memory in that country.  She begins by recounting what we now know... Read More
Daniel Unowsky, “The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia” (Stanford UP, 2018)
Daniel Unowsky
The Plunder
The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia
Stanford University Press, 2018

New Books in Eastern European StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network February 19, 2019 Kelly McFall

Daniel Unowsky‘s book isn’t about a genocide or other incident of mass violence. Instead, The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia (Stanford UP, 2018) examines a series of riots against Jews in Habsburg Galicia in the year 1898. Unowsky tries to understand how, in an Empire built around... Read More
Special Discussion: Approaches to Textbooks on Genocide
John Cox and Adam Jones
Special Discussion
Approaches to Textbooks on Genocide
New Books in Genocide Studies, 2018

New Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network January 3, 2019 Kelly McFall

How do you write a textbook about genocide? Consider what such a textbook must do.  It needs to integrate insights from a variety of disciplines. It must make complicated legal and definitional issues clear and compelling. It needs to make historical accounts meaningful yet concise.  It needs to consider the... Read More