The Holocaust: Critical Historical Approaches

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Despite the massive literature on the Holocaust, our understanding of it has traditionally been influenced by rather unsophisticated early perspectives and silence. This book summarises and criticises the existing scholarship on the subject and suggests new ways by which we can approach its study. Ultimately, this text highlights the essential need to place the Holocaust in the broadest possible context, emphasising the importance of producing high quality but sensitive scholarship in its study.

Donald Bloxham is Lecturer in Twentieth Century History at the University of Edinburgh. Tony Kushner is Marcus Sieff Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Southampton -- .