Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest: Myth, History and Holocaust, Paul A. Levine (London and Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2010), xviii + 392 pp., cloth 74.95, pbk. 32.95
Raoul Wallenberg's story has emerged as one of the bright lights shining through a dark period of modern European history. Some Hungarian Jewish survivors have viewed him as virtually an angel from heaven, others as a genuine “altruistic personality.” For some he was a hero racing around Budape...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Review |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Jahr: 2012, Band: 26, Heft: 1, Seiten: 144-145 |
| Rezension von: | Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest (London [u.a.] : Mitchell, 2010) (Dietrich, Donald J.)
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| Zusammenfassung: | Raoul Wallenberg's story has emerged as one of the bright lights shining through a dark period of modern European history. Some Hungarian Jewish survivors have viewed him as virtually an angel from heaven, others as a genuine “altruistic personality.” For some he was a hero racing around Budapest to save Jews. Literature, film, and television have created a man of mythic heroism. As Levine suggests, however, Wallenberg can also be seen as an ordinary man confronting extraordinary evil., Levine effectively argues that the myths detract from Wallenberg's real-life story, contending that Wallenberg becomes an even more significant moral symbol when the historical complexities are understood. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcs020 |