Agency and the Holocaust

The book assembles case studies on the human dimension of the Holocaust as illuminated in the academic work of preeminent Holocaust scholar Deborah Dwork, the founding director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, home of the first doctoral program focusing solely on the Holocaust and other genocides. Written by fourteen of her former doctoral students, its chapters explore how agency, a key category in recent Holocaust studies and the work of Dwork, works in a variety of different 'small' settings such as a specific locale or region, an organization, or a group of individuals.

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Thomas Kühne is Strassler Professor of Holocaust History and Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, USA, and one of the series editors of Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide.
Mary Jane Rein is Executive Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, USA.

Inhalt
Part I: Youth and Identity.- 1. Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Prewar Poland as Holocaust Sources- Jeff Koerber.- 2. Saving Jewish Girls: A Case Study in Lidingö, Sweden- Beth Cohen.- Part II: Rescue and Relief.- 3. JDC's Relief Efforts and the Holocaust in Rzeszów County- Joanna Sliwa.- 4. What for Godsake Shall I Do with the Hundreds of Table Napkins? The Preservation of Czech-Jewish Life under Nazi Occupation- Ilana Offenberger.- 5. Eleanor Roosevelt and Refugees from the Holocaust: Beyond the Politics- Dottie Stone.- Part III: Gender Dynamics.- 6. Sexuality, Sexual Violence, and Sexual Barter in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Women's Camp- Sarah M. Cushman.- 7. We Are All Witnesses: Eva Reichmann and the Wiener Library's Eyewitness Accounts Collection- Christine Schmidt.- Part IV: Ambiguities of Perpetration.- 8. Genocidal and Anti-Genocidal Ethics in Fascist Italy during the Holocaust- Alexis Herr.- 9. The Restitution of Jewish Jobs in the Aftermath of the Antonescu Regime- tefan Cristian Ionescu.- Part V: Cultures of Memory.- 10. Making Hungary Great Again: Mass Violence, State Building, and the Ironies of Global Holocaust Memory- Raz Segal.- 11. Rebuilding and Renewing Viennese Jewish Identity after the Holocaust- Elizabeth Anthony.- 12. Making Present the Past: Canada's St. Louis Apology and Canadian Jewry's Pursuit of Refugee Justice- Adara Goldberg.