Project MUSE®: Holocaust and Genocide Studies - Latest Articles
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/220
Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Holocaust and Genocide Studies.daily12026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 17 (2003) through current issueLatest Articles: Holocaust and Genocide StudiesTWOProject MUSE®Holocaust and Genocide Studies1476-79378756-6583Latest articles in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Postcards to Hitler: A German Jew’s Defiance in a Time of Terror by Bruce Neuburger (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990410
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The title of Bruce Neuburger’s Postcards to Hitler denotes the fourteen anonymous angry letters that the author’s paternal grandfather, Benno, a Jew living in Munich with his wife during the Second World War, sent to the Führer. In addition to these “postcards,” the book also contains letters from 1938–1941 that Benno and his wife, Anna, exchanged with their children, Fritz and Hani (Johanna), who had escaped from Germany to the United States during the rise of Nazism. Postcards to Hitler is a historical memoir divided into three separate but related parts, spanning 1907 to 1942—a narrative trajectory that begins in the early 1980s when the author’s father handed him a thick folder of Benno and Anna’s letters. The
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/220/image/coversmallPostcards to Hitler: A German Jew’s Defiance in a Time of Terror by Bruce Neuburger (review)2026-05-14text/htmlen-USPostcards to Hitler: A German Jew’s Defiance in a Time of Terror by Bruce Neuburger (review)2026-05-142026TWOProject MUSE®81062026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-05-14Machseh Lajesoumim: A Jewish Orphanage in the City of Leiden, 1890–1943 by J. W. Focke (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990411
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Holocaust scholarship could, for ages, be divided into roughly two approaches. The first approach studied the destruction of Jews from a macroscopic perspective; relying on centralized German archives, scholars such as Raul Hilberg and Saul Friedländer laid out the large-scale processes underlying the Shoah across the continent. The second category, conversely, zeroed in on the plight of individuals or small groups of Jews. This micro-perspective, pioneered by Vasily Grossman, elucidates the importance of local context and the complexities of decision-making, and it draws attention to individual experiences of mass murder. J. W. Focke’s excellent new book takes an intermediate or meso-level perspective by looking
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/220/image/coversmallMachseh Lajesoumim: A Jewish Orphanage in the City of Leiden, 1890–1943 by J. W. Focke (review)2026-05-14text/htmlen-USMachseh Lajesoumim: A Jewish Orphanage in the City of Leiden, 1890–1943 by J. W. Focke (review)2026-05-142026TWOProject MUSE®88552026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-05-14Mapping the Emotional Landscapes of the Holocaust: Visualizing Space and Place in Survivor Trajectories
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990412
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The recent “spatial turn” in Holocaust studies has led to renewed interest in mapping the Holocaust as both event and experience.1 In part, this turn to cartography can be seen as continuing a much earlier historiographical tradition. After all, four decades have passed since Martin Gilbert published the first edition of his Atlas of the Holocaust.2 Creating over three hundred analog maps showing “the destruction of each of the main Jewish communities of Europe, as well as acts of resistance and revolt, avenues of escape and rescue, and the fate of individuals,” Gilbert sought to locate “what was done to the Jews, with particular reference to where it was done.”3 Deploying the familiar cartographic symbols of dots
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/220/image/coversmallMapping the Emotional Landscapes of the Holocaust: Visualizing Space and Place in Survivor Trajectories2026-05-14text/htmlen-USMapping the Emotional Landscapes of the Holocaust: Visualizing Space and Place in Survivor Trajectories2026-05-142026TWOProject MUSE®1222902026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-05-14Nazi Volksgemeinschaft Technology: Gottfried Feder, Fritz Todt, and the Plassenburg Spirit by John C. Guse (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990413
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This book explores the ideological and political meaning of technology in the Third Reich. As such, it is an important contribution to our understanding of the role that engineers and other technical specialists played in the creation and operation of policy in Nazi Germany. Although the development of the Holocaust’s genocidal killing centers is likely of primary interest to this journal’s readers, that subject is not the focus of Guse’s book. Nevertheless, engineers played a prominent role in the Holocaust; thus, a detailed analysis of their decisions, motivations, and political struggles contributes to our understanding of this period.The central idea that propels this historical examination is that technology
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/220/image/coversmallNazi Volksgemeinschaft Technology: Gottfried Feder, Fritz Todt, and the Plassenburg Spirit by John C. Guse (review)2026-05-14text/htmlen-USNazi Volksgemeinschaft Technology: Gottfried Feder, Fritz Todt, and the Plassenburg Spirit by John C. Guse (review)2026-05-142026TWOProject MUSE®118962026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-05-14None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933–1948 by Irving Abella and Harold Troper (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990414
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None Is Too Many is one of the few historical works that not only contributes substantially to the story of a country’s development, but also becomes part of a country’s official ideology. It recounts Canada’s refusal to admit more than a few thousand Jewish refugees between 1933 and 1948, making it one of the countries that was least receptive to rescuing Jews from Europe’s hell.According to Irving Abella and Harold Troper, Canada’s reluctance to accept more Jewish refugees stemmed from the following circumstances. In 1941, about 50 percent of Canadians were of British origin and 30 percent of French origin. Quebec’s powerful Roman Catholic Church represented Jews as a corrupting modernist force of dishonest
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/220/image/coversmallNone Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933–1948 by Irving Abella and Harold Troper (review)2026-05-14text/htmlen-USNone Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933–1948 by Irving Abella and Harold Troper (review)2026-05-142026TWOProject MUSE®108022026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-05-14Screams of Fear in Holocaust Soundscapes
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990415
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In a letter dated September 25, 1944, Ukrainian Jew Rakhil (Rachel) Fradis-Milner recounted a roundup of Jews that had taken place in the forced-labor prison in Chukiv (Chukov), Ukraine, on February 5, 1943.1 Focusing on the experience of a friend’s daughter who had been making her way to the assembly site along with her grandmother, Fradis-Milner testified that “[t]he child was seized by a mad fear. She screamed so much on the sled along the way that her little child’s heart could not take it and gave out.”2 Overcome with fear, the girl apparently screamed until her body succumbed. Although brief, this story sheds light on defining aspects of the roundups of Jews during the Holocaust. First, the town’s acoustic
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/220/image/coversmallScreams of Fear in Holocaust Soundscapes2026-05-14text/htmlen-USScreams of Fear in Holocaust Soundscapes2026-05-142026TWOProject MUSE®1732602026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-05-14Emotions in Holocaust Studies: An Introduction
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990416
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To say that emotions play a central role in past and present references to the Holocaust is to state the obvious.1 Strong emotional experiences constitute much of how people encounter the topic through moving testimonies and melodramatic representations. Many popular depictions of the Holocaust, along with museum exhibitions and memorials, make explicit use of personal objects that belonged to the victims, as well as photographs, individual accounts, and artworks made of and by Holocaust victims. They give viewers, readers, and visitors a sense of personal and emotional connection that elicits empathy for the suffering of unfamiliar people from the past.2 In doing so, such artifacts and sites of commemoration also
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/220/image/coversmallEmotions in Holocaust Studies: An Introduction2026-05-14text/htmlen-USEmotions in Holocaust Studies: An Introduction2026-05-142026TWOProject MUSE®552252026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-05-14No Moment of Peace: Terror, Panic, and Horror in Responses to Nazi Violence Against Jews, 1933 and 1938
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990417
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On the night of November 9, 1938, the Nazi regime launched a series of brutal attacks against Jews across Germany, in what became known as Kristallnacht. A report from one German town describes how early in the next morning, “prominent Jews,” women and men, were taken out of their beds and forced to watch as uniformed SS men “detonated multiple bombs and the synagogue stood in flames.” The Jews were taken to the Gestapo. “A few, including one seventy-year-old man, were severely mistreated, beaten, and lay there swollen and covered in blood.” Others were locked in a basement for hours, fearing for their lives. Many were arrested and brought to concentration camps, where their torment continued. The Jewish authors of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/220/image/coversmallNo Moment of Peace: Terror, Panic, and Horror in Responses to Nazi Violence Against Jews, 1933 and 19382026-05-14text/htmlen-USNo Moment of Peace: Terror, Panic, and Horror in Responses to Nazi Violence Against Jews, 1933 and 19382026-05-142026TWOProject MUSE®1688072026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-05-14Through the Morgue Door: One Woman’s Story of Survival and Saving Children in German-Occupied Paris by Collette Brull-Ulmann and Jean-Christophe Portes (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990418
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When reading Through the Morgue Door, a memoir about Collette Brull-Ulmann’s resistance work at Rothschild Hospital in occupied France, you begin to wonder how she could have survived. At each turn, she narrowly avoided fatal consequences. She recounts the story of marching to a doctor’s apartment and screaming at him through the door for selecting a young child for deportation, being caught coaching patients on how to feign illness, walking for hours through the city with two young Jewish children, and spying on German troops in the city center. Though Brull-Ulmann presents these events calmly, often with minimal detail, one cannot help but think of the skill, preparedness, courage, and good fortune that kept her
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/220/image/coversmallThrough the Morgue Door: One Woman’s Story of Survival and Saving Children in German-Occupied Paris by Collette Brull-Ulmann and Jean-Christophe Portes (review)2026-05-14text/htmlen-USThrough the Morgue Door: One Woman’s Story of Survival and Saving Children in German-Occupied Paris by Collette Brull-Ulmann and Jean-Christophe Portes (review)2026-05-142026TWOProject MUSE®103502026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-05-14So They Remember: A Jewish Family’s Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine by Maksim Goldenshteyn (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990419
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So They Remember is a heartrending account of how Motl Braverman, a Jewish preteen growing up in Soviet Ukraine, was plucked from his childhood home on Tulchyn’s Voikova Street and sent to Pechera—a concentration camp nicknamed “Death Noose” in Romanian-occupied Transnistria. A mise en abîme of sorts, Motl’s story is framed by that of his grandson, Maksim Goldenshteyn, who, having come of age in the United States after the fall of the Soviet Union, relates his grandfather’s wartime experience. Motivated by a sense of responsibility “to preserve a near-forgotten chapter of the Holocaust” and perform “a small act of repair,” the author transcends genres to produce a hybrid of literary fiction, personal memoir, and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/220/image/coversmallSo They Remember: A Jewish Family’s Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine by Maksim Goldenshteyn (review)2026-05-14text/htmlen-USSo They Remember: A Jewish Family’s Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine by Maksim Goldenshteyn (review)2026-05-142026TWOProject MUSE®127472026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-05-14Distrust, Animosity, and Solidarity: Jews and Non-Jews during the Holocaust in the USSR ed. by Christoph Dieckmann and Arkadi Zeltser (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990420
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Distrust, Animosity, and Solidarity, a collection of nine papers, offers a crucial and granular examination of the multifaceted relationships between Jews and non-Jews during the Holocaust in the territories of the USSR. The editors’ introduction skillfully maps the historiographical terrain, identifying the fundamental challenges inherent in studying these complex wartime dynamics and framing the diverse regional and thematic studies that follow. The volume successfully contributes to the increasing trend among Holocaust historians toward focused regional and microhistorical inquiry. Its strength lies in its geographical breadth and thematic specificity. Together, the chapters collectively provide a mosaic of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/220/image/coversmallDistrust, Animosity, and Solidarity: Jews and Non-Jews during the Holocaust in the USSR ed. by Christoph Dieckmann and Arkadi Zeltser (review)2026-05-14text/htmlen-USDistrust, Animosity, and Solidarity: Jews and Non-Jews during the Holocaust in the USSR ed. by Christoph Dieckmann and Arkadi Zeltser (review)2026-05-142026TWOProject MUSE®111802026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-05-14Hope and Honor: Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust by Rachel L. Einwohner (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990421
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Rachel Einwohner’s Hope and Honor starts where many books on Jewish resistance during the Holocaust start, with the myth of Jewish passivity. Einwohner sets out to convey how much of a myth it is—through examples of armed struggle—and to contextualize why resistance did not happen everywhere. To do so, she draws on a comparative analysis of the Warsaw ghetto, where armed resistance famously took place; the Vilna ghetto, where resistance organizations formed but ultimately chose to escape and join partisans in the forests; and the Łódź ghetto, where armed resistance did not happen. The result of these efforts is an exceptional book that offers rich descriptions of everyday life in the ghettos and the challenges of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/220/image/coversmallHope and Honor: Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust by Rachel L. Einwohner (review)2026-05-14text/htmlen-USHope and Honor: Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust by Rachel L. Einwohner (review)2026-05-142026TWOProject MUSE®99692026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-05-14Anger and Disgust in Liberator Narratives
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990422
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I have never seen British soldiers so moved to cold fury as the men who opened the Belsen camp this week…. [T]hose officers and men who have seen these things have gone back to the Second Army moved to an anger such as I have never seen in them before.1I saw one of the soldiers double over and throw up. Soon another was doing the same, and then another. And then I understood. They were looking at us in disgust. We repelled them. We made them feel like vomiting! … A moment after that first soldier threw up a strange thing happened among the prisoners. We began turning away from them. We turned our backs to them. We didn’t want them to see us… We were so ashamed of ourselves…. I had no idea what they were going to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/220/image/coversmallAnger and Disgust in Liberator Narratives2026-05-14text/htmlen-USAnger and Disgust in Liberator Narratives2026-05-142026TWOProject MUSE®1328172026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-05-14Tele-Pathos” (Feeling From Afar) in Graphic Albums Created During the Holocaust in the Yishuv
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990423
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We are moved by things, and in being moved, we make things.1Emotions? Where is it decreed that enlightenment must be free of emotion? To me the opposite seems to be true.2Can we “reconstitute the emotional life of the past,” as Lucien Febvre urged in 1941?3 Can art contribute to the study of emotions in the history of the Holocaust, and how? What forms or media does it take? This article analyzes two graphic albums created in Mandatory Palestine by German-Jewish refugees. Erich (Eri) Glas’s Through the Night: A Story Without Words was first published in South Africa in 1943 and later in Palestine in 1945 under the title Nights (Leilot), and Lea Grundig’s In the Valley of Slaughter was first published in Tel Aviv in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/220/image/coversmallTele-Pathos” (Feeling From Afar) in Graphic Albums Created During the Holocaust in the Yishuv2026-05-14text/htmlen-USTele-Pathos” (Feeling From Afar) in Graphic Albums Created During the Holocaust in the Yishuv2026-05-142026TWOProject MUSE®1308492026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-05-14Japan’s Holocaust: History of Imperial Japan’s Mass Murder and Rape During World War II by Bryan Mark Rigg (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990424
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Bryan Mark Rigg’s book Japan’s Holocaust: History of Imperial Japan’s Mass Murder and Rape During World War II embarks on an ambitious endeavor of cataloging the genocidal campaigns carried out by Japanese forces in the Asia-Pacific theater during the Second World War. While not specifically aimed at an academic audience, Rigg’s work exhibits several critical flaws that severely undermine its capacity to provide serious historical analysis—even for general readers. The frequent use of sensational language, moralist arguments, cultural essentialism, and orientalist clichés, coupled with a lack of analytical rigor, significantly detracts from the work’s historiographical objectivity and its standing as competent
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/220/image/coversmallJapan’s Holocaust: History of Imperial Japan’s Mass Murder and Rape During World War II by Bryan Mark Rigg (review)2026-05-14text/htmlen-USJapan’s Holocaust: History of Imperial Japan’s Mass Murder and Rape During World War II by Bryan Mark Rigg (review)2026-05-142026TWOProject MUSE®178882026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-05-14After the Darkness?: Holocaust Survivors’ Emotional, Psychological, and Social Journeys in the Early Postwar Period ed. by Constance Pâris de Bollardière and Sharon Kangisser Cohen (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990425
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After the Darkness? is a collection of articles based on lectures held at the 2020 workshop: “Overcoming the Darkness?: Holocaust Survivors’ Emotional Psychological, and Social Journeys in the Early Postwar Period.”1 Both titles include questions, yet, there is a difference between the two: the symposium’s emphasize the survivors’ efforts to overcome the horrible effects of the Holocaust, while the title of this volume doubts if the darkness of the Holocaust has ever dissipated.Already in 1946, French researchers talked about “post–concentration camp asthenia.” In the late sixties, William G. Niederland referred to “survivor’s syndrome,” which Danish physicians also described as “KZ-syndrome.” In 1980, the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/220/image/coversmallAfter the Darkness?: Holocaust Survivors’ Emotional, Psychological, and Social Journeys in the Early Postwar Period ed. by Constance Pâris de Bollardière and Sharon Kangisser Cohen (review)2026-05-14text/htmlen-USAfter the Darkness?: Holocaust Survivors’ Emotional, Psychological, and Social Journeys in the Early Postwar Period ed. by Constance Pâris de Bollardière and Sharon Kangisser Cohen (review)2026-05-142026TWOProject MUSE®129482026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-05-14“The Supreme Function(s) of Life”: Love, Longing, and Grief in Postwar Encounter Narratives
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990426
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In March 1945, Clara Heller, a Romanian-born Belgian Jewish survivor, and Daniel Isaacman, a Philadelphia-born American GI, crossed paths at a hachshara meeting in Antwerp.1 Captivated by Clara, Daniel wrote to his parents, proclaiming his love for the young survivor.2 “I do not reprimand myself for allowing this to happen,” he explained to his parents in a letter home, referring to their whirlwind courtship, their unknown future, and, perhaps, to the girlfriend he had left behind in Philadelphia. “I am thankful, that … I have tasted the supreme function of life—the hunger and longing, the smile and the tear … the meetings and the partings, of love.”3 Several decades later, Clara similarly described this initial
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/220/image/coversmall“The Supreme Function(s) of Life”: Love, Longing, and Grief in Postwar Encounter Narratives2026-05-14text/htmlen-US“The Supreme Function(s) of Life”: Love, Longing, and Grief in Postwar Encounter Narratives2026-05-142026TWOProject MUSE®930992026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-05-14The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression by A. Dirk Moses (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990427
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Dirk Moses’s book critiquing the concept of genocide and the field of genocide studies is one of the most important to be published in the field in recent memory. The book is a major intellectual history—of how the concept came into being, what it displaced, and how it has been used in negative ways. The book’s arguments deserve wide circulation; every scholar in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies should be familiar with its core tenets. That said, the book is not without problems.In a nearly six-hundred-page book, Moses makes many claims. I focus here on the core ones. Fundamentally, he argues that the concept of genocide has been construed in such a way as to exclude significant forms of mass violence
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/220/image/coversmallThe Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression by A. Dirk Moses (review)2026-05-14text/htmlen-USThe Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression by A. Dirk Moses (review)2026-05-142026TWOProject MUSE®107342026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-05-14The Genocide-Ecocide Nexus ed. by Damien Short and Martin Crook (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990428
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The Genocide-Ecocide Nexus examines the expanding field of Holocaust and genocide studies by examining the complex relationships between genocide, environmental destruction, capitalistic resource extraction, and technocratic green capitalism within the broader context of the Anthropocene. This expansion relies heavily upon ideas put forth by Raphael Lemkin and Michel Foucault. Lemkin serves as a base to understand the parameters of genocide and their ever-expanding contexts when considering both humans and the environment. Additionally, the concepts of biopolitics and governmentality are peppered throughout the analysis for the reader to consider the larger global framework of genocide. Seven specialized chapters
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/220/image/coversmallThe Genocide-Ecocide Nexus ed. by Damien Short and Martin Crook (review)2026-05-14text/htmlen-USThe Genocide-Ecocide Nexus ed. by Damien Short and Martin Crook (review)2026-05-142026TWOProject MUSE®86602026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-05-14Methodological Approaches to the Holocaust and Emotions
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990429
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Holocaust historians have been slow to focus on the emotions of historical actors, even though methodological tools and concepts that have been developed in other fields could be applied to our own. For example, the history of emotions has been thriving as a field of study for decades now, and the affective turn has been underway in the social sciences and humanities since the mid-1990s.1 In recent years, notable exceptions in Holocaust studies have blazed important methodological trails and foregrounded the key role of emotions in our understanding of historical actors’ experience.2 Nevertheless, as recently as 2023, historian Amy Simon could legitimately argue that “the field of Holocaust history has not yet
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/220/image/coversmallMethodological Approaches to the Holocaust and Emotions2026-05-14text/htmlen-USMethodological Approaches to the Holocaust and Emotions2026-05-142026TWOProject MUSE®874892026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-05-14Correction to: Emotions in Holocaust Studies: An Introduction
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990430
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This is a correction to: Stefanie Fischer, Kobi Kabalek, Emotions in Holocaust Studies: An Introduction, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2025; https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcaf052.The heading “Abstract” was erroneously added to the article and has been removed.In the 16th paragraph, in the second sentence, the first name of an author for the referenced work is corrected to read: “Mark Celinscak” instead of: “Marc Celinscak”.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/220/image/coversmallCorrection to: Emotions in Holocaust Studies: An Introduction2026-05-14text/htmlen-USCorrection to: Emotions in Holocaust Studies: An Introduction2026-05-142026TWOProject MUSE®19392026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-05-14Letter from the special issue editors
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990431
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Dear Readers,This special issue reflects on why the field of Holocaust Studies has long avoided researching emotions when studying the Nazi murder of the Jews and examines insights arising from such research. In the first decades after the Holocaust, scholars from various countries, Jews and non-Jews, often preferred a writing style “free of emotions” to establish their objectivity. Conversely, we take up Lucien Febvre’s call to explore the “history of hate, the history of fear, the history of cruelty, [and] the history of love” and place emotions at the heart of this special issue. Focusing on specific events, individuals, and places in Nazi-occupied Europe and beyond—both during the Holocaust and in its immediate
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