The Holocaust: Europe, the World, and the Jews, 1918-1945 - Paperback

by Norman J. W. Goda (Author)

The second edition of this book frames the Holocaust as a catastrophe emerging from varied international responses to the Jewish question during an age of global crisis and war.

The chapters are arranged chronologically, thematically, and geographically, reflecting how persecution, responses, and experience varied over time and place, conveying a sense of the Holocaust's complexity. Fully updated, this edition incorporates the past decade's scholarship concerning perpetrators, victims, and bystanders from political, national, and gendered perspectives. It also frames the Holocaust within the broader genocide perspective and within current debates on memory politics and causation.

Global in approach and supported by images, maps, diverse voices, and suggestions for further reading, this is the ideal textbook for students of this catastrophic period in world history.

Author Biography

Norman J.W. Goda is the Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida, USA. His publications include Tomorrow the World: Hitler, Northwest Africa, and the Path toward America (1998) and Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War (2007). He is also co-author of US Intelligence and the Nazis (2005), Hitler's Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, US Intelligence, and the Cold War (2010) and editor of Jewish Histories of the Holocaust: New Transnational Approaches (2014) and Rethinking Holocaust Justice: Essays Across Disciplines (2018).