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Holocaust, Jewish (1938 - 1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1938 - 1945) Reference and General Collection Materials in located in Moody/Jones Library Encyclopedias Alpher, Joseph. Encyclopedia of Jewish History : Events and Eras of the Jewish People. New York, N.Y: Facts on File Publications, 1986. (REF DS 114.E53 1986) [Contains several sections describing the Holocaust. One sections details Jewish resistance against the Nazi’s.] Bauer, Eddy, et al. The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of World War II : An Objective, Chronological, and Comprehensive History of the Second World War. Reference ed. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1985. (Ref D 743.5 M37 1985) [vol. 8 includes information about the role of the German industry in the exploitation of Jewish slave labor.] Baumel, Judith Tydor, and Walter Laqueur. The Holocaust Encyclopedia. New Haven ; London: Yale University Press, 2001. (D804.25 .H66x 2001) Charny, Israel W. Encyclopedia of Genocide. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 1999. (HV6322.7 .E53 1999) Fischel, Jack, and Sanford Pinsker. Jewish-American History and Culture : An Encyclopedia. Vol. 429. New York: Garland, 1991. (Jones Ref E184.J5 J48 1991) Gutman, Israel. The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. New York: Macmillan, 1990. (REF D804.3 .E53 1990) [Every aspect of the Holocaust covered in detail.] Kremer, S. Holocaust Literature : An Encyclopedia of Writers and their Work. New York: Routledge, 2003. (PN56.H55 H66 2003) Landman, Isaac. The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia ... an Authoritative and Popular Presentation of Jews and Judaism since the Earliest Times; Edited by Isaac Landman . New York: The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, inc, 1939. (REF DS 102.8 U5) [Includes information about the conditions of Jews in pre-war Germany and Poland. Detailed description of the Jewish communities in those countries. Written before full knowledge of the Holocaust reached the Jewish community outside occupied Europe.] Neusner, Jacob, et al. The Encyclopedia of Judaism. New York: Continuum, 1999. (BM50 .E63 1999) Patterson, David, Alan L. Berger, and Sarita Cargas. Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature. Westport, CT: Oryx Press, 2002. (PN56.H55 E53 2002) Carol Schuetz, Baylor University Libraries, Rev. 09/01/2006 Roth, Cecil. Encyclopaedia Judaica. Jerusalem: Encyclopaedia Judaica, 1974. (REF DS 102.8 E496) [Vol. 8 contains detailed descriptions, including eyewitness testimony and an article that discusses the Christian response to the persecution of the Jews.] Spector, Shmuel, Robert Rozett, and Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoah ṿela-gevurah.. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. New York: Facts on File, 2000. (D804.25 .E53 2000) Atlases Aharoni, Yohanan, and Shmuel Ahituv. Historical Atlas of the Jewish People. New York: Continuum, 2003. (REF DS 117 J8513 1992) [Information includes maps.] Barnavi, Elie. Juifs, Une Histoire Universelle. English; A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People : From the Time of the Patriarchs to the Present ;. New York: Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1992. De Lange, N. R. M. Atlas of the Jewish World. New York: Facts on File, 1984. (REF DS116.A54 2003) Freeman, Michael J., and Tim Mason. An Atlas of Nazi Germany. London: Croom Helm, 1987. (REF DD 256.6 F73354 1987b) [Extensive coverage of the rise of Hitler and his attitude toward the Jews. Maps show locations of death camps.] Gilbert, Martin, and Martin Gilbert. Atlas of the Holocaust. Oxford Oxfordshire ; New York: Pergamon Press, 1988. (G1797.21.E29 G58 1988) Gilbert, Martin. The Macmillan Atlas of the Holocaust. New York: Macmillan Pub. Co., 1982. (REF G 1797.21 E29 G58 1982) [Maps with extensive text covering all aspects of the Holocaust. Detailed information on individual families’ fates, estimated numbers of people killed, estimated numbers of survivors.] United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Historical Atlas of the Holocaust. New York: Macmillan Pub., 1996. (G1797.21.E29 H5 1996) Dictionaries Epstein, Eric Joseph, Philip Rosen, and Henry R. Huttenbach. Dictionary of the Holocaust : Biography, Geography, and Terminology. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1997. (D804.25 .E67 1997) Fest, Wilfried. Dictionary of German History, 1806-1945. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. (REF DD203 F47 1978) [Brief descriptions given about topics and persons associated with the Holocaust.] Fischel, Jack. Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 1999. (D804.25 .F57 1999) Taylor, James, and Warren Shaw. A Dictionary of the Third Reich. London: Grafton, 1987. (REF DD 256.5 T283 1987) [Nazi leaders who were responsible for the Holocaust are discussed. Dates and events are listed which detail the progression of Nazi persecution against the Jews.] Chronologies and Books Abramson, Glenda, and Dovid Katz. The Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture : From the Eighteenth Carol Schuetz, Baylor University Libraries, Rev. 09/01/2006 - 2 - Century to the Present. New York, NY, USA: Blackwell Reference, 1989. (REF DS 102.8 B46 1989) Edelheit, Abraham J., and Hershel Edelheit. History of the Holocaust : A Handbook and Dictionary. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994. (D804.3 .E33 1994) Gribetz, Judah, Edward L. Greenstein, and Regina Stein. The Timetables of Jewish History : A Chronology of the most Important People and Events in Jewish History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. (DS 114.G68 1993) [Various Holocaust-related topics including literature, art, and the effect of the Holocaust on Jewish philosophy. Brief biographical accounts of Holocaust-era Jewish leaders as well.] Miscellaneous Books Abramowitch, Maja. To Forgive-- but Not Forget : Maja's Story. London ; Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2002. (DS135.L33 A27 2002) Allen, Michael Thad. The Business of Genocide : The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps. Chapel Hill, N.C: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. (DD253.6 .A65 2002) Apel, Dora. Memory Effects : The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2002. (N7417.6 .A64 2002) Crowe, David. Oskar Schindler : The Untold Account of His Life, Wartime Activities, and the True Story Behind the List. Cambridge, Mass: Westview Press, 2004. (D804.66.S38 C76 2004) Dietrich, Donald J. Christian Responses to the Holocaust : Moral and Ethical Issues. 1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press, 2003. (BT93 .C495 2003) Kranzler, David. Holocaust Hero : The Untold Story and Vignettes of Solomon Schonfeld, an Extraodinary British Orthodox Rabbi Who Rescued 4000 Jews during the Holocaust. Jersey City, NJ: KTAV Publishers, 2004. (BM755.S297 K73 2004) Langer, Lawrence L. Holocaust Testimonies : The Ruins of Memory. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. (D804.3 .L36 1991) ---. Preempting the Holocaust. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. (PN56.H55 L29x 1998) Levi, Neil, and Michael Rothberg. The Holocaust : Theoretical Readings. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2003. (BS2785.53 .B76 2004) Carol Schuetz, Baylor University Libraries, Rev. 09/01/2006 - 3 - Morgan, Michael L. A Holocaust Reader : Responses to the Nazi Extermination. New York Oxford University Press, 2001. (D804.3 .H6484 2001) Sicher, Efraim. Holocaust Novelists. Vol. 299. Detroit: Gale, 2004. (PS21 .D48x v.299) Sieradzki, Mietek, and Antony Polonsky. By a Twist of History : The Three Lives of a Polish Jew. London ; Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2002. (DS135.P63 S477557 2002) Zimmerman, John C. Holocaust Denial : Demographics, Testimonies, and Ideologies. Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 2000. (D804.355 .Z56 2000) Carol Schuetz, Baylor University Libraries, Rev. 09/01/2006 - 4 -.
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