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  • Israel

    What Went Wrong?

    by Omer Bartov ...
    A leading Israeli American scholar of the Holocaust explores and explains his native country's intensifying turn toward violence and exclusion.The distinguished historian Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv, and served in the Israel Defense Forces during the Yom Kippur War. He went on to become a leading scholar of the German army and the Holocaust, before turning his attention ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Shatterzone of Empires

    Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands

    by Larry Wolfe, Gregor Thum, Dan Diner, Theodore R. Weeks, Gary B. Cohen, Pieter M. Judson, Frithjof Benjamin Schenk, Elke Hartmann, Patrice M. Dabrowski, Robert Nemes, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Tomas Balkelis, Taner Akçam, Eyal Ginio, Keith Brown, David Gaunt, Peter Holquist, Alexander V. Prusin, John-Paul Himka, Pamela Ballinger, Myroslav Shkandrij, Paul Robert Magocsi, Kai Struve, Philipp Ther ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    "Anyone who studies nationalism, genocide, mass violence, or war in these regions, from the Enlightenment through the mid-20th century, needs to read [this]."— Central European HistoryShatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries.In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hitler's Army : Soldiers Nazis and War in the Third Reich

    Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich

    by Omer Bartov ...
    As the Cold War followed on the heels of the Second World War as the Nuremburg Trials faded in the shadow of the Iron Curtain both the Germans and the West were quick to accept the idea that Hitler's army had been no SS no Gestapo that it was a professional force little touched by Nazi politics. But in this compelling account Omer Bartov reveals a very different history as he probes the experience ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Germany's War and the Holocaust

    Disputed Histories

    by Omer Bartov ...
    "While attempts to come to terms with past catastrophe... can help prevent its recurrence, they may also provide arguments for... actions against the real or imagined perpetrators of previous disasters. The confrontation with... catastrophe can help us understand the roots and nature of this century's destructive urges, as well as humanity's extraordinary recuperative capacities; but it can also ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Murder in Our Midst

    The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation

    by Omer Bartov ...
    War endlessly tries to mask itself. The myth of the heroic soldier testing his individual courage stands in stark contrast to the reality of mass, anonymous death and the suppression of individual actions. Murder in Our Midst shows that this fundamental tension reached its natural conclusion in the Holocaust, and that disguising it has required an ongoing effort to misrepresent war and the ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Erased

    Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine

    by Omer Bartov ...
    In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. What begins as a deeply personal chronicle of the Holocaust in his mother's hometown of Buchach--in former Eastern Galicia--carries him on a journey across the region and back through history. This ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Anatomy of a Genocide

    The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz

    by Omer Bartov ...
    Winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Book Prize for Holocaust Research“A substantive contribution to the history of ethnic strife and extreme violence” (The Wall Street Journal) and a cautionary examination of how genocide can take root at the local level—turning neighbors, friends, and family against one another—as seen through the eastern European border town of Buczacz during World War ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine

    First-Person History in Times of Crisis

    by Professor Omer Bartov ...
    A 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThis book discusses some of the most urgent current debates over the study, commemoration, and politicization of the Holocaust through key critical perspectives. Omer Bartov adeptly assesses the tensions between Holocaust and genocide studies, which have repeatedly both enriched and clashed with each other, whilst convincingly arguing for the importance of ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • The Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust

    by Jacky Comforty ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Jewish Literature
    The Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust collects narratives of Bulgarian Jews who survived the Holocaust. Through the analysis of eye-witness testimonies, archival documents, photographs, and researchers’ investigations, the authors weave a complex tapestry of voices that were previously underrepresented, ignored, and denied. Taken together, the collected memories offer an ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Tales from the Borderlands

    Making and Unmaking the Galician Past

    by Omer Bartov ...
    **The story of the diverse communities of Eastern Europe’s borderlands in the centuries prior to World War II“A powerful combination of history and personal memoir . . . A richly contextual, skillfully woven historical study.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)**Focusing on the former province of Galicia, this book tells the story of Europe’s eastern borderlands, stretching from the Baltic to the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Holocaust and the Nakba

    A New Grammar of Trauma and History

    by Jacqueline Rose, Refqa Abu-Remaileh, Gil Anidjar, Omer Bartov, Omri Ben-Yehuda, Tal Ben-Zvi, Alon Confino, Yochi Fischer, Honaida Ghanim, Hannan Hever, Mustafa Kabha, Nadim Khoury, Mark Levene, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Yehouda Shenhav, Raef Zreik ...
    Series Book 39 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. While these two foundational tragedies are often discussed separately and in abstraction from the constitutive historical global contexts of nationalism and colonialism, The Holocaust and the Nakba explores the ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Israel-Palestine

    Lands and Peoples

    Edited by Omer Bartov ...
    The conflict between Israel and Palestine has raised a plethora of unanswered questions, generated seemingly irreconcilable narratives, and profoundly transformed the land’s physical and political geography. This volume seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the links between the region that is now known as Israel and Palestine and its peoples—both those that live there as well as those who ... Read more

    $21.89 USD