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Gazelle AcademicJewish Studies

Sussex Academic Press

Culture & the Arts

History

The Holocaust

Israel

WŽůŝƟĐƐ

Religion

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ALL GOOD BOOKSELLERS &

UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SUPPLIERS

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THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT & THE HOLOCAUSTThe Failure of Anglo-Jewish Leadership?Meier Sompolinsky

An examination of the tragic failure of the Anglo Jewish community and its leaders to influencethe British policy of blockading the Jews of the continent during the Holocaust.

HB 9781902210094 £49.50 January 1999 275 pagesPB 9781902210247 £19.95 January 1999 275 pages

CHILD SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST IN ISRAELSocial Dynamics & Post-War Experiences"Finding Their Voice"Sharon Kangisser Cohen

This is the first exploration into the experience of child survivors in Israel, focusing on the childsurvivors’ experience in telling their past to a wider audience and in publicly identifyingthemselves as Holocaust survivors. Whilst psychological research focuses on survivor’s personalinhibitions and motivations in retelling their past, the book attempts to understand the impactthat the post-war environment has had on the individual’s relationship to it. Using a qualitativenarrative approach, this study examines the dynamics of 'silence' and 'retelling' in the post-warexperience of child survivors. It demonstrates the ways in which social dynamics, as well asinternal motivations, had an impact on the extent to which these people were likely to speakpublicly about their war-time experience or whether they were more inclined to remain silent.The interviews with survivors are presented 'using their own voice', and can thereby beunderstood in their own unique context. The result is a unique work that synthesises socialscience fields as disparate as history and psychology.

PB 9781845190880 £16.95 August 2005 293 pages

SPECIAL OFFER – HARDBACK AT PAPERBACK PRICETHE CRYPTO-JEWISH MASHHADISThe Shaping of Religious & Communal Identity in their Journey from Iran toNew YorkHilda Nissimi

This book tells the little-known story of a fascinating crypto-Jewish community through twocenturies and three continents. Beginning as a precarious settlement of a few families in mid-eighteenth-century Mashhad, an Islamic holy city in northern Iran, the community grew into aclosely-knit group in response to their forced conversion to Islam in 1839. The Mashhadismaintained a double identity - upholding Islam in public while tenaciously holding onto theirJewish identity in secret. The exodus from Mashhad after 1946 relocated the communal centreto Tehran, and later to Israel and after the Khomeini revolution to New York.

HB 9781845194161 £22.50 January 2010 180 pages

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DREAMERS OF ZIONJoseph Smith & George J. Adams - Conviction, Leadership & Israel's RenewalReed M. Holmes

Joseph Smith, Jr, founder of the Mormon movement, and George J Adams, one of his leastknown followers - two Gentile dreamers of Zion - were instrumental in encouraging Jews andChristians to support the restoration of Israel. This book explains the rejection by Smith andAdams of "normal" Christian replacement theology and sets out the apologetics by which Smithand Adams promoted courage and conviction in all who joined them in encouraging the in-gathering of the Jewish exiles to Jerusalem.

HB 9781903900628 £42.50 January 2003 224 pagesPB 9781845195281 £22.95 March 2012 256 pages

FORWARD - THE JEWISH DAILY FORWARD (FORVERTS) NEWSPAPERImmigrants, Socialism & Jewish Politics in New York, 1890-1917Ehud Manor

This book examines the role the Jewish Daily Forward played during the heyday of Jewishimmigration to the United States, from 1897 to 1917. The JDF was a focus point for the 'Jewishstreet', as it dealt with issues of labour and strikes, Zionism and the American-JewishCommittee, and world war - issues that were at the heart of Jewish everyday experience andconcern.

HB 9781845193409 £49.95 August 2009 162 pages

‘FROM ONE END OF THE EARTH TO THE OTHER’The London Bet Din, 1805-1855, & the Jewish Convicts Transported toAustraliaJeremy I. Pfeffer

No Bet Din (Jewish ecclesiastical court) anywhere in the world has left such a complete recordof its transactions - matrimonial and proselytical - as that contained in the extant Pinkas(minute-book) of the London Bet Din from 1805 to 1855. In all other matters, including theoffences punishable by transportation, Jews were subject to the jurisdiction of the civil courts.Of the estimated 150,000 convict transportees shipped to the Australian penal colonies, someseven hundred were Jews.

HB 9781845192938 £49.50 September 2008 355 pagesPB 9781845193669 £22.50 July 2009 355 pages

THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF BUFFALO BILL FROM BOCHNIA (68715)The Story of a Galician Jew - Persecution, Liberation, TransformationJudith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

This is a book about, Chaskel Tydor, an Auschwitz and Buchenwald survivor, who was at varioustimes a bookkeeper, metallurgist, kibbutz founder, Hebrew book publisher, uranium minemanager, and travel agent. Spanning close to ninety years of life, his story takes the readerthrough three continents, two marriages, and one Holocaust. At the same time, it is also thestory of much of the Jewish people during the twentieth century, or at least those who foundthemselves wandering between countries, learning to function in new languages and societies,building and joining various Jewish communities, and continuously adopting different outwardways of life while trying to maintain their Jewish beliefs and practices.

PB 9781845193805 £19.95 November 2009 235 pages

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ISAAC ABOAB DA FONSECAJewish Leadership in the New WorldMoisés Orfali

From 1642 to 1654 Isaac Aboab da Fonseca was the hakham (Torah scholar) and spiritual leaderof the oldest Jewish community in the New World. This first scholarly monograph on IsaacAboab da Fonseca and his intellectual and spiritual contributions, includes discussion of hiscommentary on the Pentateuch entitled Parafrasis Comentada sobre el Pentateuco, as well as aconsideration of Aboab’s involvement in the ban of Spinoza.

HB 9781845193546 £49.95 June 2014 212 pages

ISRAEL, THE DIASPORA & JEWISH IDENTITYEdited by Danny Ben-Moshe, Zohar Segev

REVIEWS: "...a thought-provoking collection of essays in an interesting, effective

arrangement...Recommended for academic and research libraries, as well as other librarieswith collections on Israel and the Diaspora." - Ilya Silbar Margoshes, University of Regina, SKCanada, in Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter, May/June 2008.

HB 9781845191894 £55.00 July 2007 353 pagesPB 9781845192426 £25.00 August 2007 353 pages

THE JEWISH DIASPORA IN LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEANFragments of MemoryEdited by Kristin Ruggiero

The contributors have been impacted and shaped by their own or their families' memories ofthe Holocaust and the lived horrors of anti-Semitism in Latin America. The goal of thecollection, each chapter in its own medium, is to explore and celebrate what it means to haveand live memories of an individual and a collective Jewishness, and to uncover and recover thehistorical fragments of the Jewish experience in Latin America and the Caribbean.

PB 9781845194147 £25.00 April 2010 262 pages

JEWISH HISTORY IN MODERN TIMESJoseph Goldstein

This book is an enquiry into the central processes and events that changed the course of Jewishhistory in the modern era, emigration, emancipation, secularisation, anti-Semitism, andZionism. The genesis of these processes derive from the revolutionary upheavals experiencedby the Jewish people in the 1870s and 1880s, though their roots, in the form of marginalhistorical movements, were discerned as early as the seventeenth century. The historicalperspective is taken up to present-day Israel.

HB 9781898723066 £14.95 January 1995 210 pages

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SPECIAL OFFER – HARDBACK AT PAPERBACK PRICEJEWISH SOCIALISTS IN THE UNITED STATESThe Cahan Debate, 1925-1926Yaacov N. Goldstein

In 1925 Abe (Abraham) Cahan, the strong and influential editor of the most important Jewishnewspaper, Forward, and an outstanding leader of the Jewish Labor movement in the UnitedStates, visited Palestine in order to come to terms with the problem of Jewish mass migrationfrom East Europe. During and following his trip Cahan published his impressions about theJewish National Home. His publications stirred a public debate, which lasted almost a year,between the supporters and 'Bundist' antagonists to Palestine. Almost all major leaders in theJewish labour movement participated in this debate, including Rogoff, Litvak, Panken, Pine,Charny-Vladek, Zivion and Morris Hillquit, one of the major leaders of the SP (the AmericanSocialist Party). A major stronghold of the anti-Zionist Bund movement was, besides easternEurope, in the United States. The perception of Jewish immigrants was that Palestine would notsolve the problems and needs of the Jewish masses. The idea of establishing a Jewish state inPalestine was considered an illusion.

HB 9781845192174 £22.50 January 1998 259 pages

JEWS & AUSTRALIAN POLITICSEdited by Geoffrey Brahm Levey, Philip Mendes

This book - an edited collection of new contributions from distinguished Australian academics -contextualises, illuminates, and explains the contemporary politics of Australian Jewry. Itcritically analyses the three broad themes above through relevant case studies and sourcematerial, and situates the politics of Australian Jews through comparisons with general patternsin Australian politics, the politics of other minorities in Australia, and the politics of otherWestern Jewish communities. Contains a detailed appendix of Jewish Parliamentarians, 1849 tothe Present.

PB 9781903900727 £18.95 December 2004 262 pages

JEWS & THE OLYMPIC GAMESThe Clash Between Sport & Politics; With a Complete Review of JewishOlympic MedallistsPaul Taylor

No story so richly illustrates the interaction between sport and politics as the story of Jewishathletes and the Games. Each major event at the Games related to the Jews is covered in-depth, including: the story of the Jewish-Hungarian wrestler Károly Kárpáti in Berlin, 1936; theGerman-Jewish high-jumper Gretel Bergmann, who was callously exploited, then discarded, bythe Germans; the American sprinters, Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller; and the legendary MarkSpitz. From the first Olympics in Athens in 1896, through to the disasters and triumphs ofMunich 1972 and beyond, Jews and the Olympic Games, which features a list of the more-than250 Jewish medallists at the Games, is a powerful account of the conflict between sport andpolitics.

HB 9781903900871 £45.00 June 2004 Sussex Academic Press 268 pagesPB 9781903900888 £15.95 June 2004 Sussex Academic Press 268 pages

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THE JEWS OF LEBANONBetween Coexistence & Conflict (Second Edition)Kirsten E. Schulze

This is the first book to tell the story of the Jews of Lebanon in the twentieth century. Itchallenges the prevailing view that Jews everywhere in the Middle East were second-classcitizens, and were persecuted after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The Jews ofLebanon were just one of Lebanon’s 23 minorities with the same rights and privileges, andsubject to the same political tensions. The author discusses the Jewish presence in Lebanonunder Ottoman Rule; Lebanese Jews under the French mandate; Lebanese Jewish identity afterthe establishment of the State of Israel; the increase of the community through Syrianrefugees; the Jews' position in the first civil war; their involvement in the exfiltration of SyrianJews; the beginning of their exodus after the 1967 War; the virtual extinction of the Jewishcommunity as a result of the prolonged 1975 second civil war and the 1982 Israeli invasion ofLebanon; and finally the community's memory of their Lebanese past.

PB 9781845190576 £22.50 December 2008 Sussex Academic Press 237 pages

THE JEWS OF LIBYACoexistence, Persecution, ResettlementMaurice M. Roumani

This book investigates the transformative period in the history of the Jews of Libya (1938-52), aperiod crucial to understanding Libyan Jewry's evolution into a community playing significantroles in Israel, Italy and in relation with Qaddhafi's Libya. Against a background of a reformconscious Ottoman administration (1835-1911) and subsequent stirrings of modernisationunder Italian colonial influence (1911-43), the Jews of Libya began to experience rapid changefollowing the application of fascist racial laws of 1938, the onset of war-related calamities andviolent expressions of Libyan pan-Arabism, culminating in mass migration to Israel in the period1949-52. By focusing on key socio-economic and political dimensions of this process, the authorreveals the capacity of Libyan Jewry to adapt to and integrate into new environments withoutlosing its unique and historical traditions.

HB 9781845191375 £59.95 March 2008 Sussex Academic Press 310 pagesPB 9781845193676 £19.95 May 2009 Sussex Academic Press 310 pages

THE JEWS OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS & THE RULE OF LAW, 1940–1945“Quite Contrary to the Principles of British Justice”David Fraser

From 1940 to 1945 the Channel Islands were the only part of Britain to fall under GermanOccupation. During that period, local courts continued to function and to apply Island law.Lawyers, judges and government officials in Jersey and Guernsey continued to swear oaths ofallegiance to the British Crown. But German anti-Semitic laws and other measures wereintroduced and became part of the legal system. This book examines the ways in which officialsco-operated in the implementation of legal measures against the Islands’ Jewish communityand their property.

HB 9781902210483 £39.50 January 2000 Sussex Academic Press 262 pagesPB 9781845196783 £24.95 September 2014 Sussex Academic Press 272 pages

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THE LOST WORLD OF RHODESGreeks, Italians, Jews & Turks Between Tradition & ModernityNathan Shachar

REVIEWS: "The author manages I believe to deftly tell the story of this bustling Greek Island,

within the framework of a wider historical narrative, a remarkable history of religious andcultural co-existence that has been disturbed and unsettled by forced resettlements,deportations and genocide, but also a story marinated with many of Island’s idiomaticcharacteristics, disparate cultures and religions. Empathically written, the narrative flow can attimes feel somewhat uneven, and whilst the book is not quite on the magisterially eruditecanvass of Mark Mazower’s wonderful portrait of Salonika, that might appear a small cavil setagainst what remained for me as a memorable, evocative, richly sourced and gripping book."Mike Guilfoyle, Left Central, 12th May 2014

PB 9781845194550 £19.95 April 2013 Sussex Academic Press 224 pages

LOUIS MILLER & DI WARHEIT ("THE TRUTH")Yiddishism, Zionism & Socialism in New York, 1905–1915Ehud Manor

This book tells the story of Di Warheit ("The Truth"), a Yiddish daily established in New York inlate 1905. Its founder, Louis Miller (1866-1927), emigrated from Russia to the US in 1884, andby 1897 was the leader of a group that established the Forverts, later to be the most successfulYiddish newspaper in the United States.

HB 9781845195496 £35.00 June 2012 Sussex Academic Press 136 pages

SPECIAL OFFER – HARDBACK AT PAPERBACK PRICETHE RICH & THE POORJewish Philanthropy & Social Control in Nineteenth-Century LondonMordechai Rozin

This book shows how a centrally planned philanthropy developed within the London Jewishcommunity in the nineteenth century, culminating in the establishment and development ofthe Jewish Board of Guardians.

HB 9781845192273 £22.95 January 1999 Sussex Academic Press 268 pages

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NEW REVISED PAPERBACK EDITIONTHE RING OF MYTHSIsraelis, Wagner & the NazisNa'ama Sheffi

In the fall of 1938, following Kristallnacht, the symphonic orchestra in Palestine cancelled theperformance of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. No one could foresee that this would be thebeginning of a never-ending boycott. The boycott began in a society struggling for its existenceand collective identity; it continues in a well-established culture that maintains close ties withGermany and German culture, when numerous Israeli institutions are involved incommemorating the Holocaust. At present Wagner is known in Israel mainly as a symbol of theHolocaust.

From the late twentieth-century Wagner is the only composer who aroused strong oppositionwhen attempts were made to publicly play his music. Analysis of this controversy sheds light onthe changes that have taken place in Israel – from a pioneering to a traditional society, andfrom a socialist to a capitalistic one.

In the Wagner Year The Ring of Myths appears in a revised edition, including interpretationsfrom new perspectives on the place of the Holocaust in Israeli society and the processes ofchange until 2012.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Na’ama Sheffi teaches at the School of Communication at Sapir

College, Sderot (Israel). She completed her studies in modern history at Tel Aviv University, andhas published extensively on German and Israeli culture.

PB 9781845195748 £19.95 June 2013 Sussex Academic Press 224 pages

SPECIAL OFFER – HARDBACK AT PAPERBACK PRICETHE SEPHARDIM OF SYDNEYCoping with Political Processes & Social PressuresNaomi Gale

The Sydney Jewish community is dynamic and vibrant, with many communal, social andreligious institutions. This book investigates the Sephardic community of Sydney - their history,their experiences as new immigrants in a host society after arriving from traditional Moslemcultures, as well as the changes they have undergone since they arrived in Australia.

HB 9781845192280 £19.95 April 2005 Sussex Academic Press 292 pages

THE SPANISH RIGHT & THE JEWS, 1898-1945Antisemitism & OpportunismIsabelle Rohr

REVIEWS: "A penetrating appraisal of the specific mixture of ideological and strategic (indeed

frankly opportunistic) motives driving the contradictory policies adopted by Francoists towardsdifferent groups of European Jews in the period between c1936 and 1945... The particularstrength of Dr Rohr's work is its understanding of the constant interplay between the politicalmythology of Spanish antisemitism and Spain's geopolitical interests and colonial aspirations."Professor Helen Graham, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London

PB 9781845191825 £14.95 March 2008 Sussex Academic Press 272 pages

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NEW TITLESYMBOLIC ALLUSION, TEMPORAL ILLUSIONIn The Lady of the Castle by Leah Goldberg & in a Selection of ModernPaintingsRuth Dorot

This book draws parallels between literature and the arts, and between drama and painting, interms of Time and Symbolism, as they appear in the play The Lady of the Castle by LeahGoldberg, and in a group of selected paintings by Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, René Magritte,Paul Klee and Edward Munch. Discussion focuses on the connection between the written play-text and the paintings through their common visual qualities and in terms of their commonthematic, structural and stylistic characteristics.

In a world dominated by science and technology, which renders belief in any “absolute”problematic, two seminal events have left a permanent mark on the contemporary concept oftime: Einstein’s theory of relativity and Bergson’s philosophy of duration (simultanéité anddurée). In their wake, Time has become relative and fragmented – a central theme in the playand in the selected works of art under discussion. Objective, scientific and chronological time iscontrasted with inner, psychological time (duration), which differs from individual to individualand from culture to culture. Four categories of time are assessed: historical, physical-chronological, psychological and eternal.

The primary meaning behind a symbol makes the basic assumption that a particular object orentity may represent another essence. In attempting to understand the temporal/symboliclinkages of the text and paintings, much importance is attributed to the relationship between‘representer’ and ‘represented’ and between concrete and abstract. Through symbolicabstraction one is able to better comprehend the human and cosmic phenomena the symbolseeks to decipher. Symbolic Allusion, Temporal Illusion deals with a castle. This central symbolof the play and the paintings is multifaceted, representing what is manifest and what is hiddenwithin the castle, revealing a magical encounter between the world of words and the world ofcolour.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Dr. Ruth Dorot is lecturer in art history at Bar-Ilan University

and Ariel University Center in Israel, and is involved in various enrichment programs for thegeneral public. She has served as curator of exhibitions, including “The Psalms in Letters andColors” and sits on the editorial board of professional journals. She is the author of the well-received Galut Vehitgalut (“Exile and Revelation”), and the recipient of the Israel Efrat Award(2000). Her well received The Art of Time, The Art of Place: Isaac Bashevis Singer and MarcChagall - A Dialogue, was published in 2011.

HB 9781845196011 £35.00 September 2013 Sussex Academic Press 112 pages

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SPECIAL OFFER – HARDBACK AT PAPERBACK PRICETWENTY-FIRST CENTURY YIDDISHISMLanguage, Identity & the New Jewish StudiesTatjana Soldat-Jaffe

Drawing on sociolinguistics and cultural studies, this book examines transnational criticaldebates about teaching Yiddish over the last hundred years. It looks at the ways a contestedpedagogical terrain comes to define a minority language's on-going resources of cultural andideological resilience. From the inaugural international academic conference on the languageheld in 1908 in the Austro-Hungarian empire to the rise of Yiddish home-schooling and thesurge of interest as a subject of secondary language study in recent years, the status, turf-sharing conflicts and pedagogical frictions surrounding the shuttling of Yiddish back-and-forthreveal a fraught yet surprisingly dynamic situation.

Through historical and comparative analysis - including archival work, surveys, interviews, closetextual reading, discourse analysis, and ideological critique - the author reports on three criticalcase-studies for the language's futurity: ultra-orthodox Jewry in the UK, "heritage" learners inthe US, and "multi-cultural" non-Jewish learners in Germany.

HB 9781845196578 £19.95 February 2012 Sussex Academic Press 246 pages

US POLICY TOWARDS ISRAELThe Role of Political Culture in Defining the 'Special Relationship'Elizabeth Stephens

REVIEWS: “Dr Stephens’ book is a thoughtful examination of the foundations and

complexities of the ‘special relationship’ between the US and Israel from 1948 to the present.As a work of contemporary importance, it should take the reader beyond simplistic notions ofrelations between Washington, Tel Aviv, and the rest of the world. As a work of academicscholarship, it should remain an essential study for years to come.” William Lucas, Professor ofAmerican Studies, University of Birmingham.

PB 9781845192327 £25.00 December 2013 Sussex Academic Press 352 pages

VIDAL & HIS FAMILYFrom Salonica to Paris - The Story of a Sephardic Family in the TwentiethCenturyEdgar Morin

Edgar Morin, one of France's greatest living intellectuals, tells the story of his father, VidalNahoum, but also the story of Sephardic Jews, and of Europe. In this 'holographic history'Vidal's story, and that of his family, carries within it the flowering, decline, and death of Jewishculture in Spain, the passage from Empires to Nation States, the complex relations betweenJews and Gentiles, between East and West, and, ultimately, the history of the twentiethcentury itself. Morin's work ranges from the great sweep of global historical events to theeveryday details of individual lives, letters, feelings, reflections, and experiences.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Edgar Morin is Emeritus Director at the CNRS (French National

Research Center), and one of France's leading intellectuals. He has written on a variety ofsubjects, reviewed and received to great acclaim, ranging from Cinema to History, Politics toScience and Education. His central effort is to develop a 'method', an approach to inquiry thatwill do justice to the complexity of the world and of human beings.

PB 9781845192747 £19.95 May 2009 Sussex Academic Press 330 pages

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WHO'S LEFT IN ISRAEL?Radical Political Alternatives for the Future of IsraelEdited by Dan Leon

Asks pertinent questions without shying away from difficult answers. Some of Israel's leadingthinkers and experts from Israeli academia, journalism and public life investigate the pressingissues that face the modern State of Israel. The radical political perspectives and alternativespresented in this book challenge long-held ideas about how Israel should conduct itself as apolitical entity, drawing on both past and present political discussion in Israel. Ultimately, thecontributors arrive at a highly original and controversial portrayal of Israeli society, and presenta blueprint for a radical new path for Israeli politics.

HB 9781903900567 £35.00 January 2004 Sussex Academic Press 189 pagesPB 9781903900574 £15.95 April 2004 Sussex Academic Press 189 pages

WILHELM BRASSENumber 3444 - Photographer, Auschwitz 1940-1945Prepared for publication by Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland

Book & DVD.

“Wilhelm Brasse. Photographer. Number 3444. Auschwitz 1940–1945” is a unique eye-witnessdocumentary record of life inside Auschwitz at its full operational peak, as recalled, withimpressive lucidity and matter-of-factness by Wilhelm Brasse, prisoner no. 3444, who, due tohis professional skills, escaped extermination by becoming a photographer whom the ever-well-organised Nazis obliged to record photographically the running of the camp, including suchdetail as Dr Mengele’s infamous experiments.

Wilhelm Brasse was born in 1917 in Zywiec of an Austrian father and a Polish mother. Beforethe war Brasse worked in a photographic studio in Katowice. For refusal to join the Wehrmacht,he was sent to Auschwitz, where from 1941 to 1945 he worked in the Identity Service as aphotographer. He took tens of thousands of photographs of prisoners, hundreds of portraits ofSS-men and documented some so-called medical experiments. After the war ended, hereturned to Zywiec where he has been living ever since.

In March 2010 Maria Anna Potocka conducted an interview with Wilhelm Brasse. The outcomeis this book and its edited tales of the prisoner-cum-chief-photographer of Auschwitz, togetherwith a film with extracts from the interview. There is an introduction by the historian TeresaWontor-Cichy, the academic editor at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The book isgenerously illustrated with photographs from Wilhelm Brasse’s own archives, as well as thephotographic archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Yad Vashem.

The book is published in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland.The publication has been supported by the following ministries and organizations: The Ministryof Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland; Fundacja Wspolpracy Polsko-Niemieckiej / Stiftung für deutsch-polnische Zusammenarbeit; Miedzynarodowy Dom SpotkanMlodziezy w Oswiecimiu / Internationale Jugendbegegnungsstätte in Oswiecim.

PB & DVD 9781845195397 £30.00 July 2012 Sussex Academic Press 128 pages

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