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Holocaust: Issues and Themes
in the Genocide of European Jewry
Find Articles:
Holocaust Search Terms Use these database features to find topic subdivisions of the Holocaust, additional keywords, and narrower, broader, or related subject terms. Since search tools are usually not case-sensitive, it is often necessary to use the terms “Holocaust, 1939-1945” “Holocaust, Jewish” or “Holocaust and Jews” to find articles for this class. “Shoah” does not generally retrieve a substantial number of results.
· Topic Guide (ProQuest)
· Subject Guide (Gale)
· Thesaurus (WilsonWeb)
· Concept Map (Credo Reference)
Databases Search these databases for articles.
The following databases are multidisciplinary; searches will yield articles about the Holocaust from many different areas of study.
· Academic OneFile (Gale)
· ArticleFirst (FirstSearch)
· CQ Researcher (CQ Electronic Library)
· ECO (FirstSearch)
· Issues and Controversies (FACTS.com)
· LexisNexis Academic: General (LexisNexis)
· ProQuest Research Library (ProQuest)
· WilsonSelectPlus (FirstSearch)
For discipline-specific Holocaust queries, try one of the subject-specific databases listed on the Browse Research Databases by Subject page. The databases below have significant Holocaust content within their designated subject areas:
· Humanities Full Text (WilsonWeb)
· MLA International Bibliography (CSA)
· ProQuest Religion (ProQuest)
· PsycARTICLES (CSA)
· Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCOhost)
· Religion and Philosophy Collection (EBSCOhost)
· Social Sciences Full Text (WilsonWeb)
· Sociological Abstracts (CSA)
· World History Collection (EBSCOhost)
Journals
Full Text Electronic Journals This database lists and provides access to e-journals available at Madonna Library. To locate journals about the Holocaust, it is best to search by journal title (“Title contains all words”), or browse titles under the subjects “Philosophy & Religion>Judaism” and “History & Archaeology>General.”
Selected titles in Full Text Electronic Journals:
· Holocaust and Genocide Studies
· American Jewish History
· Commentary*
· European Judaism
· Foreign Affairs*
· History and Memory
· History and Theory*
· History Today*
· Jewish Quarterly Review
· Jewish Social Studies
· Jewish Studies: An Internet Journal
· Journal of European Studies
· Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy
· Judaism*
· Modern Judaism
· Prooftexts
· Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations
· Women in Judaism
*also available in Madonna’s print journal collection
Find Web Sites:
Madonna University Library Holocaust Resources An extensive listing of authoritative sites concerning various dimensions of the Shoah, including associations, study centers, museums, memorials, and discussion lists.
Internet Subject Guides Comprehensive listings of Holocaust web sites, selected and evaluated by librarians. Search using the term “Holocaust, Jewish” to retrieve the best results.
· INFOMINE
· Internet Public Library
· Intute
· Librarians’ Internet Index
Find Books:
Search for books about the Holocaust in the Madonna Catalog using the subject browse function and the term “Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)” and its subheadings for best results.
Selected Reference Books
D804.25 .E67 1997
Epstein, Eric. Dictionary of the Holocaust: Biography, geography, and terminology. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997.
D804.25 .H66 2001
Laquer, Walter, (Ed.). The Holocaust encyclopedia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
D804.3 .E53 1990
Gutman, Israel, (Ed.). The encyclopedia of the Holocaust. New York: Macmillan, 1990.
D804.3 .N54 2000
Niewyk, Donald. The Columbia guide to the Holocaust. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
D804.348 .H57 2005
Stone, Dan, (Ed.). The historiography of the Holocaust. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
Selected Circulating Books
BT93 .C495 2003
Dietrich, Donald, (Ed.). Christian responses to the Holocaust: Moral and ethical issues. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003.
BX1378 .P49 2000
Phayer, Michael. The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1965. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.
D804.3 .D87 2002
Dwork, Deborah & Pelt, Robert van. Holocaust: A history. New York: Norton, 2002.
D804.3 .K378 1994
Katz, Steven. The Holocaust in historical context. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
D804.3 .R53 2002
Rhodes, Richard. Masters of death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the invention of the Holocaust. New York: Knopf, 2002.
D804.355 .Z56 2000
Zimmerman, John. Holocaust denial: Demographics, testimonies, and ideologies. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000.
D810.P7 G337 2006
Herf, Jeffrey. The Jewish enemy: Nazi propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2006.
DD221 .E94 v.1 2003
Evans, Richard J. The coming of the Third Reich. New York: Penguin Press, 2003.
DD221 .E94 v.2 2005
Evans, Richard J. The Third Reich in power: 1933-1939. New York: Penguin Press, 2005.
DD247.E5 C47 2006
Cesarani, David. Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the life, crimes, and trial of a “desk murderer.” Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2006.
DD253.6 .A65 2002
Allen, Michael. The business of genocide: The SS, slave labor, and the concentration camps. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
DS135.G3315 G55 2006
Gilbert, Martin. Kristallnacht: Prelude to destruction. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.
DS135.G3315 G55 2002
McKale, Donald. Hitler’s shadow war: The Holocaust and World War II. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002.
HQ755.5.G3 D43 2004
Deadly medicine: Creating the master race. Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2004.
ML3776.G54 2005
Gilbert, Shirli. Music in the Holocaust: Confronting life in the Nazi ghettos and camps. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
PG7158.S294 B36 2000
Banner, Gillian. Holocaust literature: Schulz, Levi, Spiegelman and the memory of the offence. Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2000.
PN6110.H45 H65 1995
Schiff, Hilda, (Ed.). Holocaust poetry. New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
Z658.G3 H65 2001
Rose, Jonathan, (Ed.). The Holocaust and the book: Destruction and preservation. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.
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J. Lumetta, 1/8/08