Books in the Debate: New Titles for Autumn 2023



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see also: BOOKS SECTION


FOR AUTUMN 2023

A MAJOR NEW ACADEMIC COLLECTION:

War and Remembrance. World War II and the Holocaust in the Memory Politics of Post-Socialist Europe

Edited by Paul Srodecki and Daria Kozlova

Twelve papers in three sections: “Conceptual Frameworks”, “State Memory Narratives and their Public Perception” and “Museums, Memorials and Monuments as Controversial Objects of Cultural Memory”

Defending History’s comment: “One of the rare academic collections on the subject whose contributors are generally truly independent, in sharp distinction to volumes featuring academics whose state-sponsored jobs, financing, medals, honors and junkets lead them to serve as de facto state history policy surrogates, apologists or ‘history fixers’. This volume is a must-read for the reader desiring to keep abreast with the latest scholarly work in the bona fide investigation of massive state investment in the revision of history.”

PUBLISHED BY BRILL | SCHÖNINGH. PUBLISHER’S PAGE ON THE BOOKPRELIMS & CONTENTSPDF OF FLYER.

A MAJOR NEW WORK OF FICTION:

The Enemy Beside Me

“Will their struggle for truth bring them closer, or reveal shocking secrets that cannot be forgiven?”

 by Naomi Ragen

PUBLISHED BY ST. MARTIN’S GRIFFIN. PUBLISHER’S PAGE ON THE BOOK. ON AMAZON.

29 November 2023 event in New York City with Dr. Efraim Zuroff featuring extracts from the documentary film J’Accuse!


2022:

Silvia Foti’s The Nazi’s Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather was a War Criminal

is reissued under the new title

Storm in the Land of Rain: A Mother’s Dying Wish Becomes Her Daughter’s Nightmare

SEE DEFENDING HISTORY’S

UPDATES & NOTES


2022:

Evaldas Balčiūnas reviews Vilnius Genocide Center chief Arunas Bubnys’s new book on the Lithuanian Holocaust; in German translation


2021:

Christoph Dieckmann & Ruta Vanagaite: How Did It Happen? Understanding the Holocaust in Lithuania)

Book launch for Lithuanian edition in Vilnius on 25 June 2020 (LJC video). DH opinion piece on background. Reviews by Silvia Foti (Times of Israel), Aušra Maldeikienė (Literaturairmenas.lt); Linas Vildžiūnas (Lrt.lt; 7md.lt).

Question for readers and scholars: Does the Dieckmann/Vanagaite volume have the same perspective as Vanagaite/Zuroff on the outbreak of the Lithuanian Holocaust and the murder of thousands before the arrival and/or setting up of authority by invading German forces in the last week of June 1941?

2020:

Ruta Vanagaite & Efraim Zuroff: Our People: Discovering Lithuania’s Hidden Holocaust

Michael Berenbaum’s review in JJ. Linas Vildžiūnas’s review in 7md. Neville Teller’s in JP. See in Defending History: Ruta Vanagaite section. Efraim Zuroff section,


2020:

Leyb Koniuchowsky & Jonathan Boyarin: The Lithuanian Slaughter of its Jews: Testimonies of 121 Survivors of the Holocaust in Lithuania. Also posted free online (temporarily?). Volume 2

On history and role of Koniuchowsky’s collection, see now Efraim Zuroff’s 25 Jan. 2021 op-ed in Times of Israel).


2020:

Myra Sklarew: A Survivor Named Trauma


2019:

Dan Rabinowitz: The Lost Library

Allan Nadler’s review in JRB


2019:

Alexander Gendler: Khurbm: 1914-1922


2018:

Alex J. Kay & David Stahel (eds),  Mass Violence in Nazi Occupied Europe

Mark Montesclaros’s review in  H-Net. Katrin Praehler’s in European History Quarterly.

Dovid Katz’s paper in the volume (on Baltic issues).


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