LEADER 04968cam a2200469 i 4500001 9982835303506421 005 20240509065434.0 008 131018t20142014ctu b 001 0 eng^^ 010 2013041276 020 9780300188547 (hardback) 020 0300188544 (hardback) 035 (NjP)8283530-princetondb 035 |z(NjP)Voyager8283530 035 (OCoLC)ocn861120128 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDXCP |dBTCTA |dBDX |dERASA |dNBU |dEZN |dTLE |dBKL |dCDX |dFM0 042 pcc 043 e-gx--- 049 PULL 050 00 DS134.255 |b.C66 2014 082 00 940.53/18 |223 084 HIS043000HIS022000REL040030HIS014000 |2bisacsh 100 1 Confino, Alon, |eauthor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96120476 245 12 A world without Jews : |bthe Nazi imagination from persecution to genocide / |cAlon Confino. 264 1 New Haven : |bYale University Press, |c[2014] 264 4 |c©2014 300 xv, 284 pages ; |c25 cm 336 text |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |2rdamedia 338 volume |2rdacarrier 520 "Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by historians in their large-scale assessments of how and why the Holocaust occurred. In this gripping new analysis, Alon Confino draws on an array of archives across three continents to propose a penetrating new assessment of one of the central moral problems of the twentieth century. To a surprising extent, Confino demonstrates, the mass murder of Jews during the war years was powerfully anticipated in the culture of the prewar years. The author shifts his focus away from the debates over what the Germans did or did not know about the Holocaust and explores instead how Germans came to conceive of the idea of a Germany without Jews. He traces the stories the Nazis told themselves-where they came from and where they were heading-and how those stories led to the conclusion that Jews must be eradicated in order for the new Nazi civilization to arise. The creation of this new empire required that Jews and Judaism be erased from Christian history, and this was the inspiration-and justification-for Kristallnacht. As Germans imagined a future world without Jews, persecution and extermination became imaginable, and even justifiable"-- |cProvided by publisher. 520 "Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by historians in their large-scale assessments of how and why the Holocaust occurred. In this gripping new analysis, Alon Confino draws on an array of archives across three continents to propose a penetrating new assessment of one of the central moral problems of the twentieth century. To a surprising extent, Confino demonstrates, the mass murder of Jews during the war years was powerfully anticipated in the culture of the prewar years. The author shifts his focus away from the debates over what the Germans did or did not know about the Holocaust and explores instead how Germans came to conceive of the idea of a Germany without Jews. He traces the stories the Nazis told themselves--where they came from and where they were heading--and how those stories led to the conclusion that Jews must be eradicated in order for the new Nazi civilization to arise. The creation of this new empire required that Jews and Judaism be erased from Christian history, and this was the inspiration--and justification--for Kristallnacht. As Germans imagined a future world without Jews, persecution and extermination became imaginable, and even justifiable"-- |cProvided by publisher. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-267) and index. 505 0 Part I 1933-1938: The Jew as the Origins of Modernity. A New Beginning by Burning Books ; Origins, Eternal and Local ; Imagining the Jews as Everywhere and Already Gone -- Part II 1938-1941: The Jew as the Origins of Moral Past. Burning the Book of Books ; The Coming of the Flood -- Part III 1941-1945: The Jew as the Origins of History. Imagining a Genesis -- Epilogue: A World with Jews. 650 0 Jews |zGermany |xHistory |y1933-1945. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070466 650 0 Jews |xPersecutions |zGermany. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070468 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |zGermany. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105693 651 0 Germany |xPolitics and government |y1933-1945. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054640 651 0 Germany |xHistory |y1933-1945. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054594 651 0 Germany |xEthnic relations |xHistory. 902 mnc |bs |6a |7m |dv |f1 |e20140606 904 mnc |ba |hm |cb |e20140606 914 (OCoLC)ocn861120128 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20240508 |eprocessed |f861120128