Genocide and Holocaust

This book focuses on intergroup apology and its outcome. Over one hundred apologies have been made recently by leaders or groups to those they have harmed. Altruism offers examples such as truth and reconciliation commissions and also the recent example of Polish-Ukrainian leaders offering mutual apologies for a massacre that both groups inflicted on one another.

"Stunningly brilliant, standard-setting for scholarship in the field, Henry Greenspan’s 2010 version of On Listening to Holocaust Survivors transcends the path-breaking first edition by putting into bold relief the insights that emerge from his more than thirty years of intensive collaboration with Holocaust survivors. By emphasizing the importance of ongoing conversation, rather than one-time testimony, Greenspan challenges conventional wisdom and wisely transforms the process of discerning and responding to what survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides have to say." —John K. Roth, Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, and Founding Director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, Claremont McKenna College

On Listening (Amazon Kindle)      (B&N Nook book)

This is a comparative study in the genocide-studies literature of sexual violence as a genocidal weapon. With its global reach and detail, I doubt it will be surpassed for a long time. It is also one of the most nuanced, illuminating, and grimly engaging volumes on rape and mass violence yet published. The authors and editors frequently foreground the individual victims and survivors of these perhaps most intimate atrocities, and their critical framing of sometimes barely-imaginable experiences always resonates. The useful introduction and the discussion questions at the end of each chapter make Rape: Weapon of War and Genocide additionally valuable for university courses in genocide studies, gender studies, and international law.

Samuel P. Oliner's exploration of The Nature of Good and Evil is informed by his grasp of history, his mastery of sociology and the authority of his own experience as one who as a young child of the Holocaust experienced the nature of both good and evil when he was rescued by a Polish non-Jew at the risk of her life. In this work, by concentrating on the Holocaust, the Armenian and Rwandan genocides, Oliner has further solidified his well deserved reputation as a scholar of insight and discernment into an area often left to philosophers and theologians and he has enriched our vocabulary to comprehend both good and evil while enlarging our moral imagination. A valuable contribution to the field, an even more valuable contribution to moral discourse in our age of atrocity, he allows us to Understand the Many Faces of Moral and Immoral Human Behavior.--Michael Berenbaum

Nature of Good and Evil (Amazon Kindle)    (B&N Nook book)

A historical study of the treatment of Jews in Yugoslavia after Nazi ideology was adopted, with an emphasis on the ways Jews survived and were rescued by those who put their own lives in great peril.

When Courage Prevailed (Amazon Kindle)   (BN Nook Book)

"Highly recommended. All levels."
—Choice, March 2005

"I cannot praise Genocide in Rwanda highly enough. ...there is nothing else like it. This is a book that sheds light not only on genocide but also on the devastating, albeit largely unintended, political, social, and demographic consequences of the uninvited impact of western civilization on the cultures of Africa.

"Highly Recommended"
Choice, April 2003

"Must Read"
—Today's Books, Abstract & Index, May 12, 2003

A Valuable Primer on Genocide
“Will Genocide Ever End? is a valuable primer in the terrible and persistent problem of genocide in human society.

"The Genocidal Mind is particularly focused upon the Holocaust, yet the valuable insight gained is directly applicable to a wide variety of genocidal and potentially genocidal individuals and situations.

Michael Berenbaum and his colleagues have produced a truly significant collection of essays which not only furthers our understanding of antisemitism at the present moment, but underscores the importance of recognizing that the world's oldest hatred has taken a new turn: that the antisemitism of the past is not the antisemitism of the present.

Not Your Father's Antisemitism Amazon Kindle Edition)

"One of the most remarkable books to emerge from the Holocaust, Nazi Germany’s genocidal attempt to destroy the Jewish people. Reflections: Auschwitz, Memory, and a Life Recreated is the result of a one-of-a-kind interaction between Agi Rubin, an eloquent survivor of that catastrophe, and Henry Greenspan, a Holocaust scholar whose in-depth probing of survivor testimony has been pioneering and penetrating in ways that are unsurpassed.

"More than a collection, this work is a great
symphony of reflections with each section enhancing the others. The result
is a wholeness of admirable magnitude."­­--Harry James
Cargas, Webster University
".

Finally in paperback, in this major and comprehensive work, hailed by Le Monde as a "monumental study," Hermann Langbein shatters the myth that all prisoners of concentration camps, during World War II, passively let themselves be slaughtered.

Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust by David P. Gushee is an authoritative and indispensable exploration of a highly important aspect of the Holocaust, the willingness of a small, but morally significant, number of non-Jews to take on great risks for themselves and their families to rescue Jews from the Nazi death machine.

Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust: Amazon Kindle Edition

“This painfully penetrating volume reflects the quest of a soul for understanding what is beyond.”
—Elie Wiesel, author of Night

“Synthesizing in a distinctive way the perspectives of the Jewish religious tradition and contemporary philosophical and theological thought, David Patterson here presents an illuminating and impassioned account of the fundamental questions posed by the events of the Holocaust.

Highly recommended...
“Ethics After the Holocaust: Perspectives, Critiques and Response is one of the most important books on the moral and ethical implications of the Holocaust to appear in years.