Bloomsbury Academic Beginnings, Mass Murder, and Aftermath of the Holocaust: Where History and Psychology Intersect

Beginnings, Mass Murder, and Aftermath of the Holocaust attempts to sensitize individuals to the tragic results of a racist world outlook, as well as make clear to them how complicated are the series of steps that take the individual from the expression of racist sentiments and mild expressions of anti-Semitism to outright genocide. The text shows the complex ways in which politics, economics, culture, and social forces interacted with individual motivations to produce the Holocaust. A useful supplementary text for students in European History courses, students in Clinical and Social Psychology courses, and for students in Judaic Studies. Review ...Solkoff has written an innovative and interesting book. He brings a structured, integrative organization to the explanation of prejudice, coping, grief, courage, the capacity for unimaginable evil, and other phenomena of interest to psychologically minded students of the Holocaust.--Allan Fenigstein, Kenyon College "Holocaust and Genocide Studies " This book offers an interesting angle within the psychohistorical tradition...--American Journal Of Orthopsychiatry This is a work based on considerable scholarship by one who has reflected on these issues for many years.--Donald G. Tannenbaum, Gettysburg College "German Studies Review " About the Author Norman Solkoff is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of SUNY Buffalo.