Gray zones : ambiguity and compromise in the Holocaust and its aftermath /
"Few essays about the Holocaust are better known or more important than Primo Levi's reflections on what he called "the gray zone," a reality in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. In this volume, accomplished Holocaust scholars explore the terrain that Levi ide...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2005.
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| Series: | War and genocide ;
v. 8. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | "Few essays about the Holocaust are better known or more important than Primo Levi's reflections on what he called "the gray zone," a reality in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. In this volume, accomplished Holocaust scholars explore the terrain that Levi identified. Together they bring a necessary interdisciplinary focus to bear on timely and often controversial topics in cutting-edge Holocaust studies that range from historical analysis to popular culture. While each essay utilizes a particular methodology and argues for its own thesis, the volume as a whole advances the claim that the more we learn about the Holocaust, the more complex that event turns out to be. Only if ambiguities and compromises in the Holocaust and its aftermath are identified and explored, and at times allowed to remain -- lest resolution deceive us -- will our awareness of the Holocaust and its implications be as full as possible."--Book jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 417 pages) : illustrations, 1 map. |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-398) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781782382010 1782382011 |