The Holocaust : introductory essays / edited by David Scrase and Wolfgang Mieder.

"A product of careful deliberation, this text and reference book has been written by teachers and scholars, and is directed at a broad general audience... . The book should be especially appropriate for high school as well as college students"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The emergence of modern antisemitism in Germany and Europe / Francis R. Nicosia -- The rise of the Nazis to power / Robert Bernheim -- Nazi persecution in Germany and Austria, 1933-1939 / Francis R. Nicosia -- The "final solution" / Doris L. Bergen -- Rescue and resistance / Marion P. Pritchard -- Language and folklore of the Holocaust / Wolfgang Mieder -- Literature of the Holocaust / David Scrase -- Art and the Holocaust / David Scrase -- Music and the Holocaust / Doris L. Bergen -- Representing the Holocaust : film and video / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer -- The prosecution of Nazi war criminals : from IMT to OSI / Steven B. Rogers -- Religion and the Holocaust / Joshua Chasan -- Philosophical perspectives on the Holocaust / J. Alan Moore -- Antisemitism, neo-Nazism and xenophobia today / Irene Kacandes -- Survivors / Henia Lewin, Yehudi Lindeman.