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A world without Jews : the Nazi imagination from persecution to genocide, Alon Confino

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A world without Jews : the Nazi imagination from persecution to genocide
Title
A world without Jews
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the Nazi imagination from persecution to genocide
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Alon Confino
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Language
eng
Summary
  • "Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by historians in their large-scale assessments of how and why the Holocaust occurred. In this gripping new analysis, Alon Confino draws on an array of archives across three continents to propose a penetrating new assessment of one of the central moral problems of the twentieth century. To a surprising extent, Confino demonstrates, the mass murder of Jews during the war years was powerfully anticipated in the culture of the prewar years. The author shifts his focus away from the debates over what the Germans did or did not know about the Holocaust and explores instead how Germans came to conceive of the idea of a Germany without Jews. He traces the stories the Nazis told themselves-where they came from and where they were heading-and how those stories led to the conclusion that Jews must be eradicated in order for the new Nazi civilization to arise. The creation of this new empire required that Jews and Judaism be erased from Christian history, and this was the inspiration-and justification-for Kristallnacht. As Germans imagined a future world without Jews, persecution and extermination became imaginable, and even justifiable"--
  • "Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by historians in their large-scale assessments of how and why the Holocaust occurred. In this gripping new analysis, Alon Confino draws on an array of archives across three continents to propose a penetrating new assessment of one of the central moral problems of the twentieth century. To a surprising extent, Confino demonstrates, the mass murder of Jews during the war years was powerfully anticipated in the culture of the prewar years. The author shifts his focus away from the debates over what the Germans did or did not know about the Holocaust and explores instead how Germans came to conceive of the idea of a Germany without Jews. He traces the stories the Nazis told themselves--where they came from and where they were heading--and how those stories led to the conclusion that Jews must be eradicated in order for the new Nazi civilization to arise. The creation of this new empire required that Jews and Judaism be erased from Christian history, and this was the inspiration--and justification--for Kristallnacht. As Germans imagined a future world without Jews, persecution and extermination became imaginable, and even justifiable"--
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10302007
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Confino, Alon
Dewey number
940.53/18
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
DS134.255
LC item number
.C66 2014
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography
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  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • HISTORY / Holocaust
  • HISTORY / Jewish
  • RELIGION / Judaism / History
  • HISTORY / Europe / Germany
  • Germany
  • Germany
  • Germany
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the Nazi imagination from persecution to genocide
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A world without Jews : the Nazi imagination from persecution to genocide, Alon Confino
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Publication
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
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rdacarrier
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text
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rdacontent
Control code
1010004
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xv, 284 pages
Isbn
9780300188547
Isbn Type
(hardback : alk. paper)
Lccn
2013041276
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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illustrations
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(Sirsi) i9780300188547
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A world without Jews : the Nazi imagination from persecution to genocide, Alon Confino
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
1010004
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xv, 284 pages
Isbn
9780300188547
Isbn Type
(hardback : alk. paper)
Lccn
2013041276
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(Sirsi) i9780300188547

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