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SHOFAR Summer 1995 Vol. 13, No: 4 Perspectives on The Holocaust in Historical Context Editor's Note: We received a brief paper from Drs. Roy and Alice Eckardt commenting on what they see as inaccuracies in Steven Katz's book, and we asked Professor Katz to respond. Since we also received a review of the book in question, we thought the three would make an interesting intellectual "package.» We welcome additional comments from readers on this subject or any other. by Zev Garber Chair of Jewish Studies los Angeles Valley College The Holocaust in Historical Context:. Volume 1: The Holocaust and Mass Death Before the Modern Age, by Steven T. Katz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. 702 pp. $49.95. In his debut volume in the study of the Holocaust in historical context Steven T. Katz appended nearly 100 pages of bibliography in -English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and a variety of European languages, averaging over forty titles a page, a number determined not by Shoah qua Shoah but by topic necessity. Katz's determination to assert that "The Holocaust [is] phenomenologically unique" calls attention to the iconic status of Judeocide during World War II, as well as the absurdity of Western culture
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies – Purdue University Press
Published: Oct 3, 1995
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