New Books in Genocide Studies
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T. P. Kaplan and W. Gruner, "Resisting Persecution: Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust" (Berghahn, 2020)
65 hours 34 mins; September 08, 2020
Carolyn J. Dean, "The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide" (Cornell UP, 2019)
37 mins; September 07, 2020
Rafael Medoff, "The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust" (JPS, 2019)
60 hours 49 mins; August 31, 2020
Robert G. Boatright and Valerie Sperling, "Trumping Politics as Usual: Masculinity, Misogyny, and the 2016 Elections" (Oxford UP, 2019)
64 hours 37 mins; August 24, 2020
David Livingstone Smith, "On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It" (Oxford UP 2020)
67 hours 43 mins; August 10, 2020
Richard Breitman, "The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies"(Oxford Academic/USHMM)
45 mins; August 07, 2020
Nick Estes, "Our History is the Future" (Verso, 2019)
89 hours 41 mins; July 16, 2020
Francine Hirsch, "Soviet Judgement at Nuremberg" (Oxford UP, 2020)
84 hours 55 mins; July 09, 2020
Sabine Hildebrandt, "The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich" (Berghahn, 2017)
25 mins; July 09, 2020
Stephan Talty, "The Good Assassin" (HMH, 2020)
41 mins; July 06, 2020
Adam Brown, "Judging 'Privileged' Jews: Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone'" (Berghahn, 2015)
70 hours 57 mins; July 02, 2020
Vincent Bevins, "The Jakarta Method" (Public Affairs, 2020)
85 hours 18 mins; July 01, 2020
John Roosa, "Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965-1966 in Indonesia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
98 hours 30 mins; June 24, 2020
David Slucki et al., "Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust" (Wayne State UP, 2020)
72 hours 15 mins; June 22, 2020
Gabriel Finder, "Justice behind the Iron Curtain: Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
83 hours 19 mins; June 22, 2020
John K. Roth, "Sources of Holocaust Insight: Learning and Teaching about the Genocide" (Cascade Books, 2020)
75 hours 5 mins; June 15, 2020
A. D. Crosby and M. B. Lykes, "In Beyond Repair? Mayan Women’s Protagonism in the Aftermath of Genocidal Harm" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
73 hours 42 mins; June 10, 2020
Alexander Gendler, "Khurbm 1914-1922: Prelude to the Holocaust" (Varda Books, 2019)
69 hours 56 mins; June 08, 2020
Stanislav Kulchytsky, "The Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine: An Anatomy of the Holodomor" (CIUS Press, 2018)
96 hours 44 mins; June 05, 2020
Joyce E. Leader, "From Hope to Horror: Diplomacy and the Making of the Rwanda Genocide" (Potomac Books, 2020)
79 hours 20 mins; June 05, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
120 hours 37 mins; June 02, 2020
Björn Krondorfer, "The Holocaust and Masculinities: Critical Inquiries into the Presence and Absence of Men" (SUNY Press, 2020)
52 mins; May 26, 2020
Alex Jeffrey, "The Edge of Law: Legal Geographies of a War Crimes Court" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
71 hours 45 mins; April 29, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
59 mins; April 28, 2020
A Discussion with Kelly McFall about Using "Reacting to the Past" in College Courses
52 mins; April 13, 2020
Peter Fritzsche, "Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich" (Basic Books, 2020)
64 hours 32 mins; April 06, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
51 mins; March 30, 2020
Nancy Sinkoff, "From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History" (Wayne State UP, 2020)
59 mins; March 17, 2020
Paul Hanebrink, "A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism" (Harvard UP, 2018)
37 mins; March 16, 2020
Great Books: Hillary Chute on Art Spiegelman's "Maus"
57 mins; March 10, 2020
Steven Ross and Wolf Gruner, "New Perspectives on Krystallnacht" (Purdue UP, 2019)
61 hours 6 mins; March 05, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
42 mins; February 25, 2020
In the Aftermath of the Rohingya Genocide: Our Failure to Protect
10 mins; January 31, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
36 mins; January 30, 2020
Wulf Gruner, "The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia: Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses" (Berghahn Books, 2019)
63 hours 24 mins; January 23, 2020
Jennifer Cazenave, "An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah" (SUNY Press, 2019)
59 mins; January 20, 2020
Lori Gemeiner-Bihler, "Cities of Refuge: German Jews in London and New York, 1935-1945" (SUNY Press, 2019)
67 hours 25 mins; January 16, 2020
Judi Rever, "In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front" (Random House, 2018)
61 hours 43 mins; January 14, 2020
Thomas Kühne, "The Rise and Fall of Comradeship: Hitler’s Soldiers, Male Bonding and Mass Violence in the Twentieth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
68 hours 18 mins; December 17, 2019
Jelena Subotić, "Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism" (Cornell UP, 2019)
50 mins; December 12, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
57 mins; December 03, 2019
Claudia Moscovici, "Holocaust Memories: A Survey of Holocaust Memoirs, Histories, Novels, and Films" (Hamilton, 2019)
30 mins; December 02, 2019
C. Browning, P. Hayes, R. Hilberg, "German Railroads, Jewish Souls" (Berghahn Books, 2019)
52 mins; November 27, 2019
Mila Dragojević, "Amoral Communities: Collective Crimes in Time of War" (Cornell UP, 2019)
44 mins; November 27, 2019
Eyal Mayroz, "Reluctant Interveners: America's Failed Responses to Genocide from Bosnia to Darfur" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
61 hours 7 mins; November 13, 2019
Daniel Reynolds, "Postcards from Auschwitz: Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance" (NYU Press, 2018)
57 mins; November 13, 2019
Susan Neiman, “Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil” (FSG, 2019)
85 hours 4 mins; November 06, 2019
Alexander L. Hinton, "Man or Monster?: The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer" (Duke UP, 2016)
77 hours 0 mins; November 04, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
37 mins; November 03, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
32 mins; October 24, 2019
Vladimir Dzuro, "The Investigator: Demons of the Balkan War" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
56 mins; October 22, 2019
Christopher E. Mauriello, "Forced Confrontations: The Politics of Dead Bodies in Germany at the End of World War II" (Lexington Books, 2017)
40 mins; September 25, 2019
Mark Roseman, "Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany" (Metropolitan Books, 2019)
65 hours 27 mins; September 20, 2019
Alex J. Kay, "The Making of an SS Killer: the Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905-1990" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
47 mins; September 16, 2019
Jeffrey Ostler, "Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas" (Yale UP, 2019)
53 mins; September 11, 2019
Alma Jeftić, "Social Aspects of Memory: Stories of Victims and Perpetrators from Bosnia-Herzegovina" (Routledge, 2019)
57 mins; September 02, 2019
Evgeny Finkel, "Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust" (Princeton UP, 2017)
60 hours 18 mins; August 22, 2019
Maureen S. Hiebert, "Constructing Genocide and Mass Violence: Society, Crisis, Identity" (Routledge, 2017)
69 hours 3 mins; August 16, 2019
David Gaunt, "Let Them Not Return" (Berghahn Books, 2017)
52 mins; August 13, 2019
Tsega Etefa, "The Origins of Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Politics and Violence in Darfur, Oromia, and the Tana Delta" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
52 mins; August 07, 2019
Reinhart Kössler, "Namibia and Germany: Negotiating the Past" (U Namibia Press, 2015)
57 mins; July 24, 2019
David Slucki, "My Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons" (Wayne State UP, 2019)
37 mins; July 23, 2019
James W. Pardew, "Peacemakers: American Leadership and the End of Genocide in the Balkans" (U Kentucky Press, 2017)
44 mins; July 19, 2019
Liat Steir-Livny, "Remaking Holocaust Memory: Documentary Cinema by Third Generation Survivors in Israel" (Syracuse UP, 2019)
45 mins; July 11, 2019
Erik Sjöberg, "The Making of the Greek Genocide: Contested Memories of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe" (Berghahn Books, 2018)
74 hours 34 mins; July 01, 2019
Carolyn J. Dean, "The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide" (Cornell UP, 2019)
38 mins; June 19, 2019
Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace" (Harper, 2018)
64 hours 31 mins; June 13, 2019
Jennifer Dixon, "Dark Pasts: Changing the State’s Story in Turkey and Japan" (Cornell UP, 2018)
59 mins; June 06, 2019
Stephen Fritz, "The First Soldier: Hitler as a Military Leader" (Yale UP, 2018)
76 hours 34 mins; May 21, 2019
Andrew Wallis, "Stepp’d in Blood:  Akazu and the Architects of the Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsis" (Zero Books, 2019)
66 hours 51 mins; May 16, 2019
Henning Pieper, "Fegelein’s Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare: The SS Cavalry Brigade in the Soviet Union" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
56 mins; April 30, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
32 mins; March 19, 2019
Amit Pinchevski, "Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma" (Oxford UP, 2019)
48 mins; March 13, 2019
Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
61 hours 1 min; February 26, 2019
Susan Thomson, "Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace" (Yale UP, 2018)
59 mins; February 25, 2019
Daniel Unowsky, “The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia” (Stanford UP, 2018)
62 hours 19 mins; February 19, 2019
Special Discussion: Approaches to Textbooks on Genocide
79 hours 52 mins; January 03, 2019
Daniel Stahl, "Hunt for Nazis: South America's Dictatorships and the Prosecution of Nazi Crimes" (Amsterdam UP, 2018)
54 mins; December 26, 2018
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
64 hours 1 min; December 06, 2018
Daniel Siemens, "Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts" (Yale UP, 2017)
47 mins; November 28, 2018
Michael Brenner, “A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945: Politics, Culture, and Society” (Indiana UP, 2018)
33 mins; November 12, 2018
Shannon Fogg, “Stealing Home: Looting, Restitution, and Reconstructing Jewish Lives in France, 1942-1947” (Oxford UP, 2017)
59 mins; October 25, 2018
David E. Fishman, “The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis” (ForeEdge, 2017)
33 mins; October 23, 2018
Vennessa Hearman, “Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia” (NUS Press, 2018)
73 hours 23 mins; October 22, 2018
Raz Segal, “Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown and Mass Violence, 1914-1945” (Stanford UP, 2016)
76 hours 31 mins; October 17, 2018
Jennifer Yusin, “The Future Life of Trauma: Partitions, Borders, Repetition” (Fordham UP, 2017)
33 mins; October 15, 2018
Robert A. Wilson, “The Eugenic Mind Project” (MIT Press, 2017)
67 hours 23 mins; October 15, 2018
Sara J. Brenneis, “Spaniards in Mauthausen: Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940-2015” (U Toronto, 2018)
61 hours 1 min; October 10, 2018
Jess Melvin, “The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder” (Routledge, 2018)
54 mins; October 01, 2018
Mary Fulbrook, “Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice” (Oxford UP, 2018)
58 mins; September 27, 2018
Ludivine Broch, “Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust: French Railwaymen and the Second World War” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
61 hours 39 mins; September 06, 2018
Simon Levis Sullam, “The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy” (Princeton UP, 2018)
65 hours 43 mins; August 28, 2018
Katherine McGregor et al, “The Indonesian Genocide of 1965: Causes, Dynamics and Legacies” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
38 mins; July 26, 2018
Lynne Viola, “Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine” (Oxford UP, 2017)
51 mins; July 16, 2018
Waitman Beorn, “The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
97 hours 39 mins; June 20, 2018
Hans-Lukas Kieser, “Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide” (Princeton UP, 2018)
82 hours 56 mins; June 19, 2018
Geoffrey Robinson, “The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-1966” (Princeton UP, 2018)
82 hours 25 mins; June 04, 2018
Anika Walke, “Pioneers and Partisans: An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia” (Oxford UP, 2015)
63 hours 0 mins; May 24, 2018
Shira Klein, “Italy’s Jews From Emancipation to Fascism” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
56 mins; May 21, 2018
John Nathaniel Clarke, “British Media and the Rwandan Genocide” (Routledge Press, 2018)
71 hours 59 mins; May 04, 2018