Advancing Holocaust Studies Routledge Studies in Second World War History Series

The growing field of Holocaust studies confronts a world wracked by antisemitism, immigration and refugee crises, human rights abuses, mass atrocity crimes, threats of nuclear war, the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic, and environmental degradation. What does it mean to advance Holocaust studies?what are learning and teaching about the Holocaust for?in such dire straits? Vast resources support study and memorialization of the Holocaust. What assumptions govern that investment? What are its major successes and failures, challenges and prospects? Across thirteen chapters, Advancing Holocaust Studies shows how leading scholars grapple with those tough questions.

Prologue: What’s It For?; Chronology: Events Advancing Holocaust Studies, 1945–2020; Part One: Journeys; 1. Places I Have Been; 2. Peripheral Vision; 3. Living Alongside the Holocaust: A Personal and Professional Journey; 4. The Memorialist; Part Two: Challenges; 5. Holocaust Studies: A Compass; 6. Thinking Back and Looking Forward: Holocaust Education in a Troubled World; 7. Culture Matters: Warnings and Implications from the Holocaust; 8. Catholics, the Holocaust, and the Burden of History; 9. Intersections: Holocaust Studies, Personal Lives; Part Three: Prospects; 10. Holocaust Studies: Why, How, and Wherefore; 11. My Unorthodox Path: Towards Integrative, Interdisciplinary, and Comparative Holocaust Studies; 12. A Stone under the Wheel of History; 13. Words Matter; Epilogue: Why?

Carol Rittner is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Dr. Marsha Raticoff Grossman Professor Emerita of Holocaust Studies, Stockton University. Her books include The Holocaust and the Christian World: Reflections on the Past, Challenges for the Future and Women, the Holocaust, and Genocide.

John K. Roth is Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Founding Director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights (now the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights), Claremont McKenna College. His books include The Failures of Ethics: Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities and Sources of Holocaust Insight: Learning and Teaching about the Genocide.