Comparative Central European Holocaust studies

The Holocaust has too long been seen from a Western - often US-American - perspective. Here are international scholars with experience in Central and East European history and literature who look at the Holocaust in the context of the local conditions which shaped its memory and constructed the story. The work presented in the volume in fields of the humanities and social sciences is based on 1) the notion of the existence and the "describability" and analysis of a culture (including, e.g., history, literature, society, the arts, etc.) specific of/to the region designated as Central Europe, 2) the relevance of a field designated as Central European Holocaust studies, and 3) the relevance, in the study of culture, of the "comparative" and "contextual" approach designated as "comparative cultural studies." Papers in the volume are by scholars working in Holocaust Studies in Australia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Serbia, the United Kingdom, and the US. Includes bibliographical references and index. xx, 211 pages ; 23 cm.