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- catalog abstract ""Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation examines the emergence, implementation, and representation of industrial killing, an inherent and crucial component of modernity whose most extreme manifestation was the Holocaust." "The mechanized, impersonal, and sustained mass destruction of human beings, organized and legitimized by states, scientists, jurists, and intellectuals, is rooted in the industrial slaughterhouse of the Great War. In Murder in Our Midst, Omer Bartov argues that the Nazi death factories are best understood in the context of modern warfare, beginning with the First World War. He shows how the way we understand ourselves reflects the ambivalent effects of the Holocaust on our perceptions of war and violence, history and memory, progress and barbarism." "Analyzing a wide array of historical texts, works of fiction, films, and museums, Bartov leads the reader from ancient myths of heroism to the trenches of the Western Front, from Thomas Mann's romantic vision of war to Primo Levi's stark depictions of genocide, from colonial war museums to the visual art of the Holocaust. These representations of killing share some of the same important features. They attempt to form coherent images from horrific events, to draw didactic lessons from them, and to use them for political ends."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b8193884.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description ""Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation examines the emergence, implementation, and representation of industrial killing, an inherent and crucial component of modernity whose most extreme manifestation was the Holocaust." "The mechanized, impersonal, and sustained mass destruction of human beings, organized and legitimized by states, scientists, jurists, and intellectuals, is rooted in the industrial slaughterhouse of the Great War. In Murder in Our Midst, Omer Bartov argues that the Nazi death factories are best understood in the context of modern warfare, beginning with the First World War. He shows how the way we understand ourselves reflects the ambivalent effects of the Holocaust on our perceptions of war and violence, history and memory, progress and barbarism." "Analyzing a wide array of historical texts, works of fiction, films, and museums, Bartov leads the reader from ancient myths of heroism to the trenches of the Western Front, from Thomas Mann's romantic vision of war to Primo Levi's stark depictions of genocide, from colonial war museums to the visual art of the Holocaust. These representations of killing share some of the same important features. They attempt to form coherent images from horrific events, to draw didactic lessons from them, and to use them for political ends."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Man and the mass: reality and the heroic image in war -- 2. The European imagination in the age of total war -- 3. Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and reinterpretations of national socialism -- 4. Historians on the eastern front: Andreas Hillgruber and Germany's tragedy -- 5. An idiot's tale: memories and histories of the Holocaust -- 6. Intellectuals on Auschwitz: memory, history, and truth -- 7. War, memory, and repression: Alexander Kluge and the politics of representation in postwar Germany -- 8. Chambers of horror: the reordering of murders past.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-235) and index.".
- catalog extent "251 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0195098471 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "019509848X (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "940.53/18/072 20".
- catalog subject "D804.3 .B363 1996".
- catalog subject "Genocide.".
- catalog subject "Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography.".
- catalog subject "Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Museums.".
- catalog subject "Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.".
- catalog subject "Industrial killing".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Man and the mass: reality and the heroic image in war -- 2. The European imagination in the age of total war -- 3. Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and reinterpretations of national socialism -- 4. Historians on the eastern front: Andreas Hillgruber and Germany's tragedy -- 5. An idiot's tale: memories and histories of the Holocaust -- 6. Intellectuals on Auschwitz: memory, history, and truth -- 7. War, memory, and repression: Alexander Kluge and the politics of representation in postwar Germany -- 8. Chambers of horror: the reordering of murders past.".
- catalog title "Murder in our midst : the Holocaust, industrial killing, and representation / Omer Bartov.".
- catalog type "text".