The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939–March 1942

By Christopher R. Browning
With contributions by Jürgen Matthäus

"Christopher R. Browning firmly ties what the Nazis called their ‘war of destruction’ against the Soviet Union to the Holocaust. In Mr. Browning’s view . . . Germany’s mass murders of Jews and non-Jews alike on the Eastern Front crystallized Nazi policy regarding the eradication of European Jewry."—The New York Times.

Women’s Holocaust Writing; Memory and Imagination
By S. Lillian Kremer

"Though similar in terms of hunger, cold, fear, and mistreatment, women’s ordeals in the camps and ghettos and in hiding were and still are different from men’s. This gendered distinction is the essence of this book. Kremer is the first scholar to explore this important topic, and what she reveals contributes much to Holocaust studies."—Choice.

Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English
By Alan Rosen

"Rosen has written a timely, valuable, and illuminating book. . . . Sounds of Defiance is heartfelt and intelligent, and it points the way for future studies of the role of English in conveying the Jewish catastrophe of the twentieth century."—Biography

Holocaust Girls: History, Memory, and Other Obsessions
By S.L. Wisenberg

“Anyone who gets meditative around the High Holy Days, wondering exactly what it means to be a contemporary American and a Jew, will find a caring companion in Chicago-based journalist S.L. Wisenberg. . . .The strength of this collection is not so much in the answers Wisenberg provides, but in the questions she raises.”—Forward

Now Available:

The Life of Jews in Poland before the Holocaust: A Memoir
By Ben-Zion Gold

“This book is quite different in character from existing Holocaust memoirs. It is an eyewitness account of a lost milieu and it tells us, as the saying goes, not how European Jews died but how they lived.”—Robert Alter, professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary

Coming Soon:

Imaginary Neighbors: Mediating Polish-Jewish Relations after the Holocaust
Edited by Dorota Glowacka and Joanna Zylinska

Imaginary Neighbors offers a unique and significant contribution to the contemporary debate concerning Holocaust memory by exploring the most important current political topic in Poland: Jewish-Polish relations during and after World War II. Drawing on the controversy and attention generated by Jan Gross’s landmark book Neighbors, whose description of the brutal Jedwabne massacre reignited the debate over Polish-Jewish relations during the war, this timely volume presents a rich and nuanced examination of the manner in which past and present relations between Poles and Jews are understood in Poland and in the Polish and Jewish diasporas. 

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