Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature Available to Purchase

The wealth of material on and from the Jewish experience during the Second World War is overwhelming. So much so that some say the very word “Holocaust” itself, the central symbol of suffering, has been so over‐used that it should be replaced by “Shoah” or desolation. Both Holocaust and Shoah are familiar search terms in this field. Holocaust literature itself emerged as a recognizable cultural and publishing form in the 1960s, when the groundbreaking study, The Destruction of the European Jews by Raul Hilberg eventually appeared. Adolf Eichmann’s trial and the Israeli war in the 1960s provoked more interest, which...