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 Leon Volovici — In Memoriam (Raphael Vago) The Anatomy of Rescue: The Wartime Diary of Aurelia Wyleżyńska, 1939–1944 (Rachel Feldhay Brenner) Rural Society and the Jews in Hiding: Elders, Night Watches, Firefighters, Hostages and Manhunts (Jan Grabowski) An AL Unit and Its Attitude toward Jews: The Trial of Tadeusz Maj (Joanna Tokarska-Bakir) The “Jewish Policy” of the Szálasi Regime (László Karsai) Between Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide: An Alternative Analysis of the Holocaust of Romanian Jewry (Ronit Fisher) “Unknown Dead”: Unsettling Finds from the Archive of the International Tracing Service (Susanne Urban) Reviews: “Sitrah Akhrah” (The Other Side): What is the Purpose of Holocaust Fiction? Reflections in the Wake of Two Historical Novels by Jonathan Littell and Steve Sem-Sandberg (Omer Bartov) Who Will Edit Their History? The Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and the Ringelblum Archives: Magdalena Tarnowska, ed., Życie i twórczość Geli Seksztajn (= Archiwum Ringelbluma, vol. 4); Katarzyna Person, ed., Getto warszawskie. Życie codzienne (= Archiwum Ringelbluma, vol. 5); Tadeusz Epsztein, ed., Inwentarz Archiwum Ringelbluma (Stephan Lehnstaedt) Grappling with an Uncomfortable Past: Recent Scholarship on the Holocaust in Poland and Lithuania: Adam Puławski, W obliczu zagłady: Rząd RP na Uchodźstwie, Delegatura Rządu RP na Kraj, ZWZ-AK wobec deportacji Żydów do obozów zagłady (1941–1942); Robert van Voren, Undigested Past: the Holocaust in Lithuania (Theodore R. Weeks) The Cracks in the Wall: Toward a Neo-crisis Paradigm of Jewish Historiography?: David Engel, Historians of the Jews and the Holocaust (Dimitry Shumsky)
