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The Origins of the Final Solution
How, when, and why the Nazis’ decision to exterminate Europe’s Jews was made remains one of the most vexed and disputed of all important questions concerning the Holocaust. There...
Case for the Prosecution
The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican’s Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism By David L. Kertzer Knopf, 355 pages, $27.95 Probably the best-known aspect of the uneasy...
The Response of Orthodox Jewry in the United States to the Holocaust: The Activities of the Vaad Ha-Hatzala Rescue Committee, 1939–1945
The Response of Orthodox Jewry in the United States to the Holocaust: The Activities of the Vaad Ha-Hatzala Rescue Committee, 1939–1945 by efraim zuroff ktav, 316 pages, $8.96 This...
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering by norman g. finkelstein verso, 304 pages, $15.37 As I write these words, The Holocaust Industry is causing enormous...
Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by john cornwell viking, 400 pages, $14.20 As Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli was the most controversial of modern Popes. Regarded during...
History as Tragedy
A People Apart: The Jews in Europe, 1789-1939 by david vital oxford university press, 944 pages, $100.08 Until very recently, modern Jewish history was a subject beyond the academic...
