Yad Vashem Studies: Volume 53:2

Yad Vashem Studies is a peer-reviewed bi-annual scholarly journal on the Shoah. Since its inception in 1957, Yad Vashem Studies has featured trailblazing and thought-provoking articles about the Shoah by leading researchers and thinkers on the subject around the world. Yad Vashem Studies aims to comprehensively examine the Shoah and is a forum for multi-disciplinary scholarly discourse.

Introduction
Ben Kiernan Israel W. Charny (1931–2024): In Memoriam Mark Roseman Alon Confino (1959–2024): In Memoriam Shulamit Volkov Antisemitism in the Arsenal of European Collective Memory: Reflections on “Sliding” from Criticism to Hatred Dan Michman Integrating Medicine in the Overall Conceptualization of the Holocaust: Critical Reflections on Mainstream Holocaust Historiography Mark Edele The Soviet Union and the Holocaust: A History of Ambivalence Ofer Ashkenazi The Banal Sight of the Unfathomable: Integrating an Analysis of Photographs into Historical Research of the Holocaust Dalia Ofer and Avinoam Patt Israelis in the Shadow of Holocaust Memory and Antisemitism: The Role of the State of Israel Prior to October 7, 2023     REVIEWS Guy Miron Resistance, Defiance, and Active Initiative: New Perspectives on the Struggle of German Jews Against the Nazi Regime     Wolf Gruner, Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany   Laurien Vastenhout Jewish Guards in the Dutch Transit Camp of Westerbork     Frank Van Riet, The Jewish Guards: Supervision in the Dutch Gateway to Hell Doris L. Bergen Open Archives, Open Secrets, Open Questions     David I. Kertzer, The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler Milton Shain A Political Minefield: Grappling with Holocaust Remembrance in a Racialized and Divided Society     Roni Mikel-Arieli, Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State: Holocaust Memory in South Africa—from Apartheid to Democracy (1948–1994) Ilana Rosen Extreme Literature in Real Time and to the Present Day Daniel Feldman and Efraim Sicher, Poesis in Extremis: Literature Witnessing the Holocaust Steffen Klävers Conflations of Violence: The Problems of Permanent Security A. Dirk Moses, The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression Contributors Instructions for Contributors