Yad Vashem Studies is an academic journal featuring articles on the cutting edge of research and reflection on the Holocaust. Yad Vashem Studies is a must for any serious library seeking to offer the essential texts on the Nazi era and the Holocaust. “Yad Vashem Studies has been at the forefront of research into the Nazi persecution and mass murder of the Jews, its origins and its consequences… indispensable for researchers and teachers alike. No library that purports to offer students and teachers the essential historical texts on the Nazi era and the fate of the Jews can afford to be without Yad Vashem Studies.” [David Cesarani, The Journal of Holocaust Education] Beginning with volume 35, Yad Vashem Studies comes out twice annually, in spring and fall, making our contributors’ important research available to our readers more quickly and more readily. We have also redone our layout in order to make it more reader friendly. Our rigorous high standards remain unchanged.
Table of Contents: Introduction Fackenheim and the Holocaust: Setting the Record Straight (Michael L. Morgan) The Holocaust in Hungary: Rescue Operations in Hungary: Myths and Realities (Randolph L. Braham) The Hungarian Holocaust as Reflected in the People’s Court Trials in Budapest (László Karsai) Two Cities, Two Policies, One Outcome: The De-Judaization of Pécs and Szeged in 1944 (Judit Molnár) History, Remembrance, and a “Useful Past” in the Public Thought of Hungarian Jewry, 1938–1939 (Guy Miron) Will the Past Protect Hungarian Jewry? Response of Jewish Intellectuals to Anti-Jewish Legislation (Anna Szalai) A Changing Genre: Jewish Hungarian Family Novels After the Holocaust (Rita Horvath) Jews, Poles, and the Holocaust: Alien, Hostile, Dangerous: The Image of the Jews and the “Jewish Question” in the Polish-Catholic Press in the 1930s (Dariusz Libionka) Heaven or Hell? The Two Faces of the HASAG-Kielce Camp (Felicja Karay) The Gęsiówka Story: A Little Known Page of Jewish Fighting History (Edward Kossoy) New Battlegrounds and the Holocaust - Three Perspectives: Conflicting Signals: British Intelligence on the “Final Solution” Through Radio Intercepts and Other Sources, 1941-1942 (Nicholas Terry) The Polish Jewish Woman From the Beginning of the Occupation to the Deportation to the Ghettos (Raquel Hodara) Why Did Heydrich Write the Schnellbrief? A Remark on the Reason and on Its Significance (Dan Michman) Reviews: The SS and the Economics of Genocide: Michael Thad Allen, The Business of Genocide: The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps Hermann Kaienburg, Die Wirtschaft der SS Jan Erik Schulte, Zwangsarbeit und Vernichtung: Das Wirtschaftsimperium der SS. Oswald Pohl und das SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt 1933-1945 (Joachim Neander) Historians and True Believers: Isabel Heinemann, “Rasse, Siedlung, deutsches Blut”. Das Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt der SS und die rassenpolitische Neuordnung Europas (Yaacov Lozowick) Through A Woman’s Eye: Nechama Tec, Resilience and Courage: Women, Men and the Holocaust (Judith Tydor Baumel) Distinctions that Inform, Deliberations that Intensify Understanding: Dan Michman, Holocaust Historiography: A Jewish Perspective (Michael Berenbaum) Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature - A First Step: S. Lillian Kremer, ed., Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work (Nathan Cohen)
