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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Original Language
- English
- Features
- Uncorrected Proof
- ISBN
- 9781451684537
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1451684533
ISBN-13
9781451684537
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240255047
Product Key Features
Book Title
Anatomy of a Genocide : the Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Holocaust, Military / World War II, Genocide & War Crimes, Modern / 20th Century, General, Jewish
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-049870
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Omer Bartov's masterful study of Buczacz -- marked by comprehensive scholarship and a compelling narrative -- exemplifies the very best in current Holocaust history writing." -- Christopher R. Browning, author of Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, "Fascinating...This resonant and cautionary history demonstrates how the peace was incrementally disrupted, as rage accumulated and neighbors and friends felt pitted against one another." -- Los Angeles Times, "A long-awaited and essential contribution to the history of the Holocaust. This thoroughly researched and beautifully written study of the deep roots and immediate circumstances of genocide in an East Galician multiethnic town...is an exemplary microhistory of the Holocaust, a model for future research." -- Saul Friedlander, author of Nazi Germany and the Jews, "If you imagined there might be no more to learn, alond comes this work of forensic, gripping, original, appalling brilliance." -- Philippe Sands, author of East WEst Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity", "Combines a long historical perspective with an intimate reconstruction of who the perpetrators and victims of the Holocaust had been. A local history opening our understanding of the phenomenon at large. A brilliant book by a master historian." -- Jan T. Gross, author of Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland, "This is a gripping, challenging, and masterfully written book...Understanding the destruction of the Jews as part of genocidal perils that have not passed even today, the horrific case of Buczacz thus comes as a powerful warning against bigotry everywhere at any time." -- Tom Segev, author of The Seventh Mllion: The Israelis and the Holocaust and Simon Wiesenthal:The Life and Legends, "If you imagined there might be no more to learn, along comes this work of forensic, gripping, original, appalling brilliance." -- Philippe Sands, author of East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
Dewey Decimal
940.53/18094779
Synopsis
A fascinating and cautionary examination of how genocide can take root at the local level--turning neighbors, friends, and even family members against one another--as seen through the eastern European border town of Buczacz during World War II. For more than four hundred years, the Eastern European border town of Buczacz--today part of Ukraine--was home to a highly diverse citizenry. It was here that Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews all lived side by side in relative harmony. Then came World War II, and three years later the entire Jewish population had been murdered by German and Ukrainian police, while Ukrainian nationalists eradicated Polish residents. In truth, though, this genocide didn't happen so quickly. In Anatomy of a Genocide Omer Bartov explains that ethnic cleansing doesn't occur as is so often portrayed in popular history, with the quick ascent of a vitriolic political leader and the unleashing of military might. It begins in seeming peace, slowly and often unnoticed, the culmination of pent-up slights and grudges and indignities. The perpetrators aren't just sociopathic soldiers. They are neighbors and friends and family. They are human beings, proud and angry and scared. They are also middle-aged men who come from elsewhere, often with their wives and children and parents, and settle into a life of bourgeois comfort peppered with bouts of mass murder: an island of normality floating on an ocean of blood. For more than two decades Bartov, whose mother was raised in Buczacz, traveled extensively throughout the region, scouring archives and amassing thousands of documents rarely seen until now. He has also made use of hundreds of first-person testimonies by victims, perpetrators, collaborators, and rescuers. Anatomy of a Genocide profoundly changes our understanding of the social dynamics of mass killing and the nature of the Holocaust as a whole. Bartov's book isn't just an attempt to understand what happened in the past. It's a warning of how it could happen again, in our own towns and cities--much more easily than we might think.
LC Classification Number
DS135.U42B833 2018
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