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Daniel Siemens, “Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts” (Yale UP, 2017)

Daniel Siemens
Stormtroopers
A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts
Yale University Press, 2017

New Books in European Studies New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in German Studies New Books in History New Books in Military History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network November 26, 2018 Craig Sorvillo

In his new book, Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts (Yale University Press, 2017, Daniel Siemens, professor of European history at Newcastle University, writes a comprehensive history of the SA, from the early 1920s until Nazi Germany’s total defeat in 1945. Siemens demonstrates how the SA evolved from a small... Read More

Michael Brenner, “A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945: Politics, Culture, and Society” (Indiana UP, 2018)

Michael Brenner
A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945
Politics, Culture, and Society
Indiana University Press, 2018

New Books in European Studies New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in German Studies New Books in History New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network November 12, 2018 Max Kaiser

In A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945: Politics, Culture, and Society (Indiana University Press, 2018), edited by Michael Brenner, Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich and Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies at the American University in Washington DC, has assembled a number... Read More

Shannon Fogg, “Stealing Home: Looting, Restitution, and Reconstructing Jewish Lives in France, 1942-1947” (Oxford UP, 2017)

Shannon Fogg
Stealing Home
Looting, Restitution, and Reconstructing Jewish Lives in France, 1942-1947
Oxford University Press, 2017

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in European Studies New Books in French Studies New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in History New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network October 25, 2018 Robin Buller

While the history of the Second World War and Jewish persecution in France has been widely studied, the return of survivors in the aftermath of deportation and genocide has not received sufficient attention. With Stealing Home: Looting, Restitution, and Reconstructing Jewish Lives in France, 1942-1947 (Oxford University Press, 2017), Shannon Fogg, Professor and... Read More

David E. Fishman
The Book Smugglers
Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis
ForeEdge, 2017

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Eastern European Studies New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in History New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network October 23, 2018 Max Kaiser

In The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis (ForeEdge, 2017), David E. Fishman, Professor of Jewish history at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, tells the amazing story of the paper brigade of Vilna. The paper brigade were ghetto inmates who rescued thousands... Read More

Vennessa Hearman
Unmarked Graves
Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia
NUS Press, 2018

New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Southeast Asian Studies New Books Network October 22, 2018 Kelly McFall

This interview is the fourth and and final interview in a short series of podcasts about the mass violence in Indonesia. Earlier this year I talked with Geoff Robinson, Jess Melvin and Kate McGregor and Annie Pohlman about their works. All of them have written thoughtful, carefully researched and richly... Read More