LEADER 03978cam a2200589 a 4500001 13474 005 20240621160329.0 008 941101s1995 nyu b s001 0 eng 010 94042915 015 GB9603322 |2bnb 019 123063519 020 0791426432 020 9780791426432 020 0791426440 |q(paperback) 020 9780791426449 |q(paperback) 035 (OCoLC)ocm31514676 035 13474 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dUKM |dBAKER |dNLGGC |dBTCTA |dYDXCP |dOCLCG |dHEBIS |dBDX |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dOCLCQ |dTAMSA |dOCLCQ |dOCL |dOCLCO |dLFM |dOCL |dOCLCQ |dRCE |dOCLCO |dOCL |dY5J |dXFF |dOCL |dURS |dCOCUF |dJ9U |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO |dOCLCA |dOCL |dNAM |dIL4J6 |dOCLCO |dUKMGB 050 00 D804.3 |b.M366 1995 100 1 Markle, Gerald E., |d1942- |eauthor. 245 10 Meditations of a Holocaust traveler / |cGerald E. Markle. 264 1 Albany : |bState University of New York Press, |c[1995] 264 4 |c©1995 300 xii, 185 pages ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 505 0 Stone Soup -- Thinking -- Snapshots -- Gray -- Approaches -- Meditation -- Banality -- Eichmann -- Ordinary Killers -- Ordinary People -- Are We All Nazis? -- Abraham's Choice -- Bureaucracy -- Routine Slaughter -- Two Visions -- Blood and Honor -- Functionalism -- Forgetting -- Krema -- Modernity -- Total Domination -- Gardening -- Medical Experiments -- The American Connection -- Enlightment? -- A Dialogue -- After -- In Memoriam -- Collective Memory -- Historiography -- Today -- Anamnesis -- An Ending? -- Another Ending. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-167) and indexes. 520 Reflections of a sociologist on the Holocaust and on modern civilization, examining them on three levels: the "micro" (individuals who perpetrated the Holocaust), the "meso" (the role of the bureaucracy), and the "macro" (civilization as a whole). Supports, with some reservations, the viewpoints of Hannah Arendt and Stanley Milgram that there was nothing pathological in the Nazis; the perpetrators were ordinary people who obeyed a malevolent authority. Shows the role played by hierarchy, division of labor, and bureaucracy in the genocide. The bureaucracy placed effectiveness above human morality. Maintains that the Holocaust is a highly modern phenomenon, and that the spirit of the Enlightenment also bears responsibility for it. Shows many similarities between American racism in the fields of science and law and that of the Nazis. Reflects on the memory of the Holocaust and the attempts to view it in different historical perspectives, to distort it for the sake of present-day political needs. |c(From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism). 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |xInfluence. 650 7 Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00972484 650 7 Judenvernichtung. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4073091-8 650 7 Vergangenheitsbewältigung. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4061672-1 650 17 Holocaust. |2gtt 650 7 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |xInfluence. |2nli 650 7 Meditations. |2nli 651 7 USA. |2swd 647 7 Jewish Holocaust |d(1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00958866 648 7 1939-1945 |2fast 653 1 JewsGenocideHistory 655 7 Meditations. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01423849 655 7 Meditations. |2lcgft 655 7 Méditations. |2rvmgf |0(CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001359 856 41 |3Electronic version(s) available |uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ushmm/detail.action?docID=3408258 |zHosted by ProQuest. 852 0 |bstacks |hD804.3 |i.M366 1995 852 0 |bscstacks |hD804.3 |i.M366 1995 |tc.4 852 0 |bscstacks |hD804.3 |i.M366 1995 |tc.3 852 0 |bscstacks |hD804.3 |i.M366 1995 |tc.2 852 |bebook