Holocaust: Memories, Research, Reference

• the U.S. Memorial Holocaust Museum
• preparing a Holocaust unit for high school students
• incorporating contemporary Holocaust articles into Holocaust study
• Holocaust “webliographies”
• comparative genocide studies and the future of Holocaust research
• Holocaust denial literature

  Holocaust reference work in its preferred form doesn’t substitute method, empiricism, and quantification for substance, emotion, and qualitative discussion. This form is captured and preserved for the benefit of future survivors and scholars in The Holocaust: Memories, Research, Reference. Informed by years of experience and suffering, it will take you and your library visitors to the heart of research and allow you to re-search the human heart.

Comprised of a wide breadth of scholarly materials and diverse articulations, The Holocaust: Memories, Research, Reference will help you guide others in Holocaust research and show you how you can avoid contributing to the popularization and trivialization of the Holocaust. You’ll find in it poems by the prolific American poet, Lyn Lifshin; an essay by Arnost Lustig; work by Roselle Chartock; commentary by Howard Israel on the controversial Pernkopf Atlas; writing on the historian’s role by Michael Marrus, a top Holocaust scholar; and views on linguistic distortions by Sanford Berman, the well-known cataloger. In addition, you’ll read about:

• the U.S. Memorial Holocaust Museum
  
• preparing a Holocaust unit for high school students
  
• incorporating contemporary Holocaust articles into Holocaust study
  
• Holocaust “webliographies”
  
• comparative genocide studies and the future of Holocaust research
  
• Holocaust denial literature

  Holocaust reference work in its preferred form doesn’t substitute method, empiricism, and quantification for substance, emotion, and qualitative discussion. This form is captured and preserved for the benefit of future survivors and scholars in The Holocaust: Memories, Research, Reference. Informed by years of experience and suffering, it will take you and your library visitors to the heart of research and allow you to re-search the human heart.

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Unparalleled in its scope, this compilation piques interest and provides access to new resources, which in turn keep the memory of the Holocaust alive. Hauptman and Motin inform scholars, researchers, librarians, and teachers what new research methodologies exist and what new information on this topic has been uncovered. The result is a detailed, well-organized book containing the latest Holocaust memories, research, and resources available to those interested in teaching, researching, writing, and/or learning more about the Holocaust. Librarians should peruse the entire book so that they have an idea of its breadth. The editors devote the first section to memories of the Holocaust. Poignant eyewitness accounts from Holocaust survivors, comments on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and poetry about the Holocaust get readers' attention and provide further impetus for not forgetting the horror of this historical event. The second section contains chapters that focus on particular topics and research methodologies. Individual contributors explain primary and secondary source usage. For example, one author looks at the silence of Canadian Protestant churches during the Nazi era. The author explains his research methods and indicates why some churches were included and others excluded in the study. Another author shows how newspaper articles written during the Nazi era provide insight into how and why people reacted the way they did. The final section lists resources available. Traditional resources like books and videotapes are included, and the implication is that some of these resources have been overlooked; others simply need to be revisited. Further, the plethora of electronic information available via the Internet is extensive. The editors provide clues as to how one can best access Holocaust information. Hauptman and Motin's compilation of Holocaust memories, research, and reference materials will serve a variety of people-professionals can improve their own knowledge and understanding of the phenomena, scholars can discover fresh ways to research and write about the Holocaust, and teachers and librarians who endeavor to help adolescents learn about the annihilation of the Jews and others can utilize current research via the Internet to increase student interest. Index. Source Notes. Further Reading.