| The Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Hungary Contributor(s): Braham, Randolph L. (Editor), Wiesel, Elie (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0810129167 ISBN-13: 9780810129160 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $292.05 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Holocaust - History | Europe - Austria & Hungary |
| Dewey: 940.531 |
| LCCN: 2012035896 |
| Physical Information: 4.8" H x 8.6" W x 11.7" (11.30 lbs) 1640 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Holocaust |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award The illustrated three-volume Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Hungary is a definitive, authoritative, and magisterial resource, thorough and exhaustive. It documents and chronicles the wartime fate of the Jewish communities in that country where virulent antisemitism is anything but dead, even today. With scores of detailed maps and hundreds of photographs, this reference work is organized alphabetically by county, each prefaced with a map and a contextual history describing its Jewish population up to and into 1944. Entries track the demographic, cultural, and religious changes in even the smallest communities where Jews lived before their marginalization, dispossession, ghettoization, and, finally, deportation to labor and death camps. The encyclopedia endows scholars and lay researchers with both panoramic and microscopic views of the virtually last-minute destruction of most of the Jews of Hungary, until then the last sizable surviving Jewish community in occupied Europe. |