{"title":"Series: Perspectives on the Holocaust","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerspectives on the Holocaust\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a profound exploration of one of history’s darkest chapters through diverse lenses. Readers can expect thoughtful analysis that delves into the historical, philosophical, and psychological dimensions of the Holocaust, encouraging reflection on its lasting impact on humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis series invites engagement with complex narratives and ethical questions, providing insight into the resilience of the human spirit and the importance of memory. It is an essential resource for those seeking to deepen their understanding of history and its enduring moral lessons.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-holocaust-and-australia-by-professor-paul-r-bartrop-9781350185135","title":"The Holocaust and Australia","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaul R. Bartrop examines the formation and execution of Australian government policy towards European Jews during the Holocaust period, revealing that Australia did not have an established refugee policy (as opposed to an immigration policy) until late 1938. He shows that, following the Evian Conference of July 1938, Interior Minister John McEwen pledged a new policy of accepting 15,000 refugees (not specifically Jewish), but the bureaucracy cynically sought to restrict Jewish entry despite McEwen’s lofty ambitions. Moreover, the book considers the (largely negative) popular attitudes toward Jewish immigrants in Australia, looking at how these views were manifested in the press and in letters to the Department of the Interior.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Holocaust and Australia\u003c\/i\u003e grapples with how, when the Second World War broke out, questions of security were exploited as the means to further exclude Jewish refugees, a policy incongruous alongside government pronouncements condemning Nazi atrocities. The book also reflects on the double standard applied towards refugees who were Jewish and those who were not, as shown through the refusal of the government to accept 90% of Jewish applications before the war. During the war years this double standard continued, as Australia said it was not accepting foreign immigrants while taking in those it deemed to be acceptable for the war effort.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncorporating the voices of the Holocaust refugees themselves and placing the country’s response in the wider contexts of both national and international history in the decades that have followed, Paul R. 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For the first time, \u003ci\u003eHitler’s Mein Kampf and the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e sees celebrated international scholars analyse the book from various angles to demonstrate how it laid the groundwork for the Shoah through Hitler’s venomous attack on the Jews in his text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSplit into three main sections which focus on ‘contexts’, ‘eugenics’ and ‘religion’, the book reflects carefully on the point at which the Fuhrer’s actions and policies turn genocidal during the Third Reich and whether \u003ci\u003eMein Kampf\u003c\/i\u003e presaged Nazi Germany’s descent into genocide. There are contributions from leading academics from across the United States and Germany, including Magnus Brechtken, Susannah Heschel and Nathan Stoltzfus, along with entirely new insights into the source material in light of the 2016 German critical edition of \u003ci\u003eMein Kampf\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHitler’s views on Marxism, violence, and leadership, as well as his anti-Semitic rhetoric, are examined in detail as you are taken down the disturbing path from a hateful book to the Holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430850347244,"sku":"9781350185449","price":51.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350185449.jpg?v=1774558296"},{"product_id":"israel-and-the-holocaust-by-dr-avinoam-j-patt-9781350188341","title":"Israel and the Holocaust","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAvinoam Patt examines the relationship between two of the most significant events in modern Jewish history, the Holocaust and the creation of the state of Israel. While there may be no direct causal connection between the Holocaust and the founding of the Jewish state in 1948, the memory of the Holocaust has been a constant presence in Israeli politics, culture, and society since even before 1948.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe State of Israel has always existed in an uneasy relationship with the Shoah. On the one hand, Israel was faced with the challenge of taking in hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors as new citizens of the state, many of whom were discouraged from sharing their traumatic wartime experiences with their fellow citizens. On the other hand, the destruction of European Jewry and the failure of Western democracy to protect the Jewish minority in Europe seemed to vindicate the Zionist worldview, even as classical Zionism argued that the Jewish people deserved a state on the basis of their deep historical connection to the Land of Israel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy tracing the evolving relationship to the memory of Shoah, Avinoam Patt argues, we can also trace shifting conceptions of Israeli self-understanding and identity, Israel’s relationship to the wider world, its neighbours, the Jewish Diaspora, and the Jewish past. \u003cem\u003eIsrael and the Holocaust\u003c\/em\u003e documents these tensions and analyses the changing nature of Israel’s relationship to the Shoah, revealing that it only seems to strengthen with the passage of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463342538988,"sku":"9781350188341","price":51.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350188341-israel-and-the-holocaust.jpg?v=1775031257"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/series-perspectives-on-the-holocaust.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}