The Palgrave handbook of Britain and the Holocaust

The Palgrave handbook of Britain and the Holocaust / Tom Lawson and Andy Pearce, editors.

This handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume on the history and memory of the Holocaust in Britain. It traces the complex relationship between Britain and the destruction of Europe's Jews, from societal and political responses to persecution in the 1930s, through formal...

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Other Authors: Lawson, Tom (Editor), Pearce, Andy, 1981- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2020]
Subjects:
1939-1945
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Foreign public opinion, British.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Public opinion.
Public opinion
Public opinion, British
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Britain and the Holocaust: An introduction- Tom Lawson and Andy Lawson
  • Part I: Political Contexts
  • 2. British Interwar Fascism and anti-Fascism- Daniel Tilles
  • 3. The Agenda of British Refugee Policy 1933-48- Louise London
  • Part II: Refugees in Britain: 1933-39
  • 4. The Immigration and Reception of Jewish Refugees from the Third Reich- Anthony Grenville
  • 5. 'I remember the labels around their necks': Britain and the Kindertransport- Andrea Hammel
  • Part III: War and Holocaust
  • 6. Knowledge in Britain of the Holocaust during the Second World War- Michael Fleming
  • 7. The Unlikely Tale of a Hero Named Coward : Uncomfortable Truths and the Necessary War- Russel Wallis
  • 8. Belsen and the British- Dan Stone
  • Part IV: Punishment and Memory
  • 9. 'Where, exactly is Auschwitz?' British confrontation with the Holocaust through the medium of the 1945 Belsen Trial- Caroline Sharples
  • 10. Campaigning for Justice: Anti-Fascist Campaigners, Nazi Era Collaborator War Criminals and Britain's Failure to Prosecute, 1945-99- Siobhan Hyland and Paul Jackson
  • 11. Selective Histories: Britain, the Empire and the Holocaust- Michelle Gordon
  • Part V: Cultural Representations
  • 12. Beyond the Cesspit Beneath: The BBC and the Holocaust- James Jordan
  • 13. British cinema and the Holocaust- Barry Langford
  • 14. British Holocaust Literature- Sue Vice
  • Part VI: The Holocaust in British Society
  • 15. A defining decade? Swastikas, Eichmann, and arson in 1960s Britain- Nigel Copsey
  • 16. The legacy of the Holocaust, Jewish history and British antisemitism: The "Jew Murderer" and the murder of the Jews- Tony Kushner
  • 17. "I belong here. I know I ought never to have come back, because I've never been away": Kitty Hart-Moxon's documentaries of return'- Isabel Wollaston
  • Part VII: Public Pedagogy
  • 18. Holocaust education in England: Concerns, controversies and challenges- Stuart Foster
  • 19. Holocaust representation in the Imperial War Museum- K. Hannah Holtschneider
  • 20. Negotiating memory and legacy: David Cesarani and the IWM's Holocaust exhibition- Chad McDonald
  • 21. From celebrating diversity to British values: The changing face of Holocaust memorial day in Britain- Kara Critchell
  • 22. Visions of permanence, realities of instability: The Prime Minister's Holocaust Commission and the United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Foundation- David Tollerton
  • 23. Britishness, Brexit and the Holocaust- Andy Pearce.

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