New Books in Genocide Studies

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Tim Grady, "Burying the Enemy: The Story of Those who Cared for the Dead in Two World Wars" (Yale UP, 2025)
Apr 27, 2025 – 54:30
Alexandra Birch, "Hitler’s Twilight of the Gods: Music and the Orchestration of War and Genocide in Europe" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Apr 25, 2025 – 01:22:04
Ulf Zander, "Raoul Wallenberg: Life and Legacy" (Lund UP, 2024)
Apr 14, 2025 – 01:10:57
Karen A. Frenkel, "Family Treasures: Lost & Found" (Post Hill Press, 2025)
Apr 8, 2025 – 59:11
Stefanie Fischer and Kim Wünschmann, "Oberbrechen: a German Village Confronts Its Nazi Past" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 7, 2025 – 01:00:37
Lucy Adlington, "Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust" (HarperCollins, 2025)
Mar 27, 2025 – 01:06:43
Thomas P. Bernstein, "Holocaust: German History and Our Half-Jewish Family" (Cherry Orchard, 2024)
Mar 24, 2025 – 01:27:19
Kobi Kabalek, "Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)
Mar 16, 2025 – 58:12
William Blakemore Lyon, "Forged in Genocide: Migrant Workers Shaping Colonial Capitalism in Namibia, 1890-1925" (de Gruyter, 2024)
Mar 15, 2025 – 01:29:12
Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe, "Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist: Fascism, Genocide, and Cult" (Ibidem Press, 2014)
Mar 13, 2025 – 58:45
Lea David, "A Victim's Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights"(Columbia UP, 2025)
Mar 11, 2025 – 01:17:09
Andrew G. Walder, "Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Mar 9, 2025 – 01:25:41
Christian Gerlach, "Conditions of Violence" (de Gruyter, 2024)
Mar 6, 2025 – 38:48
Stefan Cristian Ionescu, "Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania: Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities, 1944-1950" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Mar 5, 2025 – 01:21:28
László Borhi, "Survival under Dictatorships: Life and Death in Nazi and Communist Regimes" (Central European UP, 2024)
Mar 3, 2025 – 47:49
Victoria Khiterer, "Jewish Pogroms in Kiev During the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920" (Edwin Mellen, 2015)
Mar 1, 2025 – 01:23:31
Irina Rebrova, "Re-Constructing Grassroots Holocaust Memory: The Case of the North Caucasus" (de Gruyter, 2020)
Feb 27, 2025 – 55:45
Thanasis S. Fotiou, "Hitler’s Hunting Squad in Southern Europe: The Bloody Path of Fritz Schubert through Occupied Crete and Macedonia" (Pen and Sword, 2024)
Feb 23, 2025 – 20:35
Shay A. Pilnik, "The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War" (Purdue UP, 2025)
Feb 22, 2025 – 01:30:54
Saulius Suziedelis, "Crisis, War, and the Holocaust in Lithuania" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
Feb 14, 2025 – 01:09:30
Bruce Robbins, "Atrocity: A Literary History" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Feb 9, 2025 – 01:12:38
"We Remember Lest the World Forget: Memories of the Minsk Ghetto" (JewishGen, 2018)
Feb 2, 2025 – 02:03:56
Karel Margry, "Nordhausen Concentration Camp" (After the Battle, 2024)
Jan 31, 2025 – 01:38:17
Edward Westermann, "Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest" (U Oklahoma Press, 2016)
Jan 29, 2025 – 01:37:38
Leon Saltiel, "The Holocaust in Thessaloniki: Reactions to the Anti-Jewish Persecution, 1942–1943" (Routledge, 2020)
Jan 26, 2025 – 55:42
Anthony McElligott, "The Last Transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Jan 21, 2025 – 01:24:52
Mark Celinscak, "Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp" (U Toronto Press, 2015)
Jan 16, 2025 – 01:17:29
Alette Smeulers, "Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities: Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?" (Routledge, 2023)
Jan 12, 2025 – 54:56
Gervase Phillips, "Persecution and Genocide: A History" (Routledge, 2024)
Jan 10, 2025 – 01:09:58
Jonathan R. Beloff, "The Strategy to End the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda" (Lexington Books, 2025)
Jan 9, 2025 – 01:23:16
Elissa Bemporad, "Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jan 7, 2025 – 01:01:33
Benjamin Meiches, "The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Jan 7, 2025 – 01:00:26
Doris L. Bergen, "Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 2, 2025 – 02:07:06
Oishik Sircar, "Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Dec 29, 2024 – 01:36:01
Diana Dumitru, "The State, Antisemitism, and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Dec 26, 2024 – 01:53:20
Rebecca Brenner Graham, "Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany" (Citadel Press, 2025)
Dec 10, 2024 – 45:58
Jacob Flaws, "Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
Dec 9, 2024 – 01:00:11
Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich" (Penguin, 2024)
Dec 8, 2024 – 01:05:44
Nicola Kristin Karcher and Markus Lundström, "Nordic Fascism: Fragments of an Entangled History" (Routledge, 2022)
Dec 7, 2024 – 33:55
Richard J. Golsan, "Justice in Lyon: Klaus Barbie and France's First Trial for Crimes Against Humanity" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Dec 6, 2024 – 01:24:09
Jonathan Adams and Cordelia Heß, "Antisemitism in the North: History and State of Research" (de Gruyter, 2019)
Dec 4, 2024 – 01:07:49
Krzysztof Bielawski, "The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
Dec 1, 2024 – 01:02:35
Nina Valbousquet, "Lukewarm Souls: The Vatican facing the Shoah" (La Découverte, 2024)
Nov 26, 2024 – 01:04:19
Hannah Pollin-Galay, "Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Nov 15, 2024 – 01:00:00
Maksim Goldenshteyn, "So They Remember: A Jewish Family’s Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
Nov 13, 2024 – 01:30:38
Steven T. Katz, "The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History, Volume 2" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Oct 22, 2024 – 54:28
Thomas Weber, “Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi” (Basic Books, 2017)
Oct 18, 2024 – 01:11:09
Rachel O'Sullivan, "Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule: Resettlement, Germanization and Population Policies in Comparative Perspective" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Oct 16, 2024 – 01:03:05
Boris Adjemian, "The Brass Band of the King: Armenians in Ethiopia" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Oct 12, 2024 – 01:10:44
Norman Naimark, “Stalin’s Genocides” (Princeton UP, 2010)
Oct 9, 2024 – 01:13:50

Recent Reviews

LibbyBogo

Excellent content, but please mute while sniffling

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jason neihson

Educational and enjoyable

Great synopsis of intriguing books and topics