334 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
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Comprised of a wide breadth of scholarly materials and diverse articulations, The Holocaust: Memories, Research, Reference will help you guide others in Holocaust research and show you how you can avoid contributing to the popularization and trivialization of the Holocaust. You’ll find in it poems by the prolific American poet, Lyn Lifshin; an essay by Arnost Lustig; work by Roselle Chartock; commentary by Howard Israel on the controversial Pernkopf Atlas; writing on the historian’s role by Michael Marrus, a top Holocaust scholar; and views on linguistic distortions by Sanford Berman, the well-known cataloger. In addition, you’ll read about:
- the U.S. Memorial Holocaust Museum
- preparing a Holocaust unit for high school students
- incorporating contemporary Holocaust articles into Holocaust study
- Holocaust “webliographies”
- comparative genocide studies and the future of Holocaust research
- Holocaust denial literatureHolocaust reference work in its preferred form doesn’t substitute method, empiricism, and quantification for substance, emotion, and qualitative discussion. This form is captured and preserved for the benefit of future survivors and scholars in The Holocaust: Memories, Research, Reference. Informed by years of experience and suffering, it will take you and your library visitors to the heart of research and allow you to re-search the human heart.
Contents
Introduction
- Part I: Memories
- Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Viewing the Impossible: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Blue Tattoo: The Creative Process
- Five Poems from Lyn Lifshin’s Blue Tattoo
- Part II: Research
- Preparing a Holocaust Unit for High School Students
- A Holocaust Resource Center Becomes a Beehive: The Case of the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
- Remainders of Vanished Lives: Teaching the Painful Legacy of the Holocaust
- Incorporating Contemporaneous Newspaper Articles About the Holocaust into a Study of the Holocaust
- How Silent Were the Churches? Canadian Protestantism and the Jewish Plight During the Nazi Era: Notes on Method
- Comparative Genocide Studies and the Future Directions of Holocaust Research: An Exploration
- The Holocaust and Business as Usual: Congressional Source Materials
- Separating the Qualitative to Quantitative Dimension from the Data Versus Analyses Distinction: Another Way to Study Holocaust Survivors
- The Nazi Origins of Eduard Pernkopf’s Topographische Anatomie des Menschen: The Biomedical Ethical Issues
- Getting It Right: Some Thoughts on the Role of the Holocaust Historian
- Part III: Reference
- Holocaust Autobiography
- Examining the Holocaust Through the Lives and Literary Works of Victims and Survivors: An Ideal Unit of Study for the English Classroom
- Selected Issues in Holocaust Denial Literature and Reference Work
- Reference Strategies and Reference Sources About the Holocaust: A Case Study
- Whose Holocaust Is It, Anyway? The “H” Word in Library Catalogs
- Overlooked Reference Tools for Researching the Holocaust
- Closing Circles, Opening Pathways: The Reference Librarian and the Holocaust
- Expand Reference Resources: Research the Holocaust Through the Internet
- Locating Holocaust Information on the Internet
- Holocaust Resources on the Internet
- A Presence and Usage Survey
- Holocaust Denial and the Internet
- Reference Notes Included
- Index
Biography
Linda S Katz
