Voices on War and Genocide - by Omer Bartov (Hardcover)
Similar Products
Products of same category from the store
All
Product info
<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov's acclaimed Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together previously unknown accounts by three individuals from Buczacz. These rare narratives give personal glimpses into daily life in unsettled times: a Polish headmaster during World War I, a Ukrainian teacher and witness to both Soviet and German rule, and a Jewish radio technician, genocide survivor, and member of the Polish resistance. Together, they offer a prismatic perspective on a world remote from our own that nonetheless helps us understand how people not unlike ourselves responded to mass violence and destruction"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p> Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov's acclaimed <em>Anatomy of a Genocide</em>, this volume brings together previously unknown accounts by three individuals from Buczacz. These rare narratives give personal glimpses into daily life in unsettled times: a Polish headmaster during World War I, a Ukrainian teacher and witness to both Soviet and German rule, and a Jewish radio technician, genocide survivor, and member of the Polish resistance. Together, they offer a prismatic perspective on a world remote from our own that nonetheless helps us understand how people not unlike ourselves responded to mass violence and destruction.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p> <em>"</em>Voices on War and Genocide <em>assembles three extraordinarily rich personal accounts covering different periods and aspects of the history of the Galician town and region of Buczacz. Such narratives are extremely rare; even rarer are ones that are as informative and illuminating as these three."</em> <strong>- Thomas Kühne</strong>, Clark University</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p> <strong>Omer Bartov</strong> is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University. He is the author of <em>Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz</em> (2018) along with several other well-regarded scholarly works on the Holocaust and genocide, including <em>Germany's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories</em> (2013) and <em>Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine</em> (2015).</p>
Price History
Price Archive shows prices from various stores, lets you see history and find the cheapest. There is no actual sale on the website. For all support, inquiry and suggestion messages communication@pricearchive.us