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A selection of the Jewish Book Club

Table of Contents

1. Talks Followed by Breakfast: The Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942 2. German Jews and National Socialism: Self-Image and Threat 3. Exclusion and Discrimination of the Jews in Germany, 1933-1939 4. Jewish Emigration, 1933-1941 5. Aryanization and the Jewish Star: German Jews Are Totally Stripped of Their Civil Rights, 1939-1941 6. Ghettos in Occupied Eastern Europe: The Beginning of the Final Solution of the Jewish Question 7. From Antisemitism to Genocide: The Genesis of the Final Solution 8. Massacre in the East: Einsatzgruppen and Other Killing, 1941-1942Units in the Occupied Territories 9. The Deportation of the Jews from Germany 10. Theresienstadt 11. The Other Genocide: The Persecution of the Sinti and Roma 12. Industrialized Mass Murder in the Extermination Camps, by 1942-1944

About the Author

Wolfgang Benz is professor of antisemitism research at the Technical University of Berlin. He has written numerous studies on the history of the Jews during the Third Reich, including The Jews of Germany, 1933-1945 and Dimension des Volkermords (Dimension of Genocide).Arthur Hertzberg is professor of Jewish Studies at New York University. He is the author of The Jews in America: Four Centuries of an Uneasy Encounter: A History (Columbia) and The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader.

Reviews

This will be an essay of choice for anyone wishing a sophisticated description of the major aspects of the genocide of the Jews. -- Deborah E. Lipstadt Washington Post [T]he book pulls no punches, is well written, and is thorough in its presentation. -- Samuel Totten Canadian Social Studies Book Review By detailing the events that led Jews to be stripped of their rights, resettled in ghettos and deported to the killing centers, Benz's work provides and indisputable record of the Nazi genocide. Hadassah Magazine A good, short history of the Holocaust. Neue Zurcher Zeitung An example of superb analysis. Das Sonntagsblatt