Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz Omer Bartov
Bartov’s treatment of his mother’s hometown deftly balances the general and the particular while elucidating the collapse of empires and birth of nation-states, the erosion of the semi-feudal economy, the rise of aggressive nationalisms, the trauma of war and ethnic cleansing. He analyzes genocide o...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2019
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 33, Issue: 3, Pages: 429-432 |
| Review of: | Anatomy of a genocide (New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018) (Kassow, Samuel D.)
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| Summary: | Bartov’s treatment of his mother’s hometown deftly balances the general and the particular while elucidating the collapse of empires and birth of nation-states, the erosion of the semi-feudal economy, the rise of aggressive nationalisms, the trauma of war and ethnic cleansing. He analyzes genocide on the ground: not the culmination of impersonal processes, but the personal riot of hatred, greed, and opportunism. While Bartov does not draw false moral equivalences between victim and perpetrator, he shows too how German occupation morally compromised many Jews., This book anchors a keen sense of Eastern Europe in gripping personal narratives, merging interviews with archival and secondary sources. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcz046 |