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Title: Reading the Holocaust by Inga Clendinnen ISBN: 0-521-01269-4 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 02 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This is a book about history.
Comment: This book assumes that the reader has prior experience with holocaust literature. It is not necessarily an overview of the holocaust, but rather a moral and historiographical exploration of the way the Holocaust can and has been reported. The writer has a deft touch on obviously sensitive materials, and addresses one of the modern historian's most troubling issues: how does one critically analyze the veracity and moral actions of those who have been deliberately tormented out of their humanity? From what perspective can one objectively judge monsters and their victims?
This is a thoughtful addition to a reading list of holocaust literature, and a profound text on the calling of the historian.
Rating: 4
Summary: Big Task
Comment: This is a small book in size only. The author has taken it upon herself to review the field of literature on the topic and try and take a new look at the perceptions for why it happened and why it happened to the Jews. This is a interesting and gutsy look at the topic, some would say it is the "third rail" in many circles to look at this topic, but the author does it and does not do a bad job of it. I think she correctly provides and overview that the holocaust was not a unique event in world history and that it is possible to understand the motivations of the people who committed these crimes, just like it is to understand common criminals.
The author is taking on a big issue and one that could easily bog the reader down in a large amount of complicated theories and terms, but she does not. The book is well written and straightforward. If you are interested in topic this should be one of the books you start out reading.
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting overview of major Holocaust works
Comment: Although I think the review below overstates the case a bit, this is one individual's interesting and serious attempt to digest and understand the Holocaust through some of its seminal texts. Although I had a problem with some particular aspects of Clendinnen's analysis (such as beginning her argument with a polemic on the lack of parity given the Roma in Holocaust inquiries---especially interesting since she later notes that the Roma were indeedy viewed differently by the Germans, or her strange decision to single out as dubious, for no apparent reason, and with no evidence, details of Filip Muller's book on Auschwitz), I did enjoy reading the book as a partial synthesis of some Holocaust literature. It is a decent starting point for anyone interested in the literature, although for a short text that outlines the massive issues emenating from this event I would recommend Gerald Markle's Meditations of a Holocaust Traveler. Like Clendinnen, Markle takes the lay reader through the fascinating and disturbing moral, philosophical and historical abyss that the event engenders, but in a more engrossing way.
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Title: A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture (Oxford World's Classics) by Marguerite Feitlowitz ISBN: 0195134168 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk by Palden Gyatso, Palden Gyatso, Tsering Shakya, Dalai Lama, Palden ISBN: 0802135749 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Notes from the Hyena's Belly : An Ethiopian Boyhood by Nega Mezlekia ISBN: 0312289146 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 05 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch ISBN: 0312243359 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman ISBN: 0394747232 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 12 August, 1986 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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