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

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"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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eng
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Publication
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xv, 284 pages
Contents
  • Part I 1933-1938: The Jew as the Origins of Modernity. A New Beginning by Burning Books ; Origins, Eternal and Local ; Imagining the Jews as Everywhere and Already Gone
  • Part II 1938-1941: The Jew as the Origins of Moral Past. Burning the Book of Books ; The Coming of the Flood
  • Part III 1941-1945: The Jew as the Origins of History. Imagining a Genesis
  • Epilogue: A World with Jews
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9780300188547
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A world without Jews : the Nazi imagination from persecution to genocide
Title
A world without Jews
Title remainder
the Nazi imagination from persecution to genocide
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Alon Confino
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Author
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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"--
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940.53/18
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Index
index present
LC call number
DS134.255
LC item number
.C66 2014
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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A world without Jews : the Nazi imagination from persecution to genocide, Alon Confino
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-267) and index
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text
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rdacontent
Contents
Part I 1933-1938: The Jew as the Origins of Modernity. A New Beginning by Burning Books ; Origins, Eternal and Local ; Imagining the Jews as Everywhere and Already Gone -- Part II 1938-1941: The Jew as the Origins of Moral Past. Burning the Book of Books ; The Coming of the Flood -- Part III 1941-1945: The Jew as the Origins of History. Imagining a Genesis -- Epilogue: A World with Jews
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xv, 284 pages
Isbn
9780300188547
Isbn Type
(hardback)
Lccn
2013041276
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)861120128
  • 735682
  • (OCoLC)ocn861120128
  • 735682
Label
A world without Jews : the Nazi imagination from persecution to genocide, Alon Confino
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-267) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Part I 1933-1938: The Jew as the Origins of Modernity. A New Beginning by Burning Books ; Origins, Eternal and Local ; Imagining the Jews as Everywhere and Already Gone -- Part II 1938-1941: The Jew as the Origins of Moral Past. Burning the Book of Books ; The Coming of the Flood -- Part III 1941-1945: The Jew as the Origins of History. Imagining a Genesis -- Epilogue: A World with Jews
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xv, 284 pages
Isbn
9780300188547
Isbn Type
(hardback)
Lccn
2013041276
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)861120128
  • 735682
  • (OCoLC)ocn861120128
  • 735682

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