{"title":"Dr Laura Jockusch","description":"\u003cp\u003eDr Laura Jockusch offers a profound exploration of historical and educational themes, delving deeply into complex subjects such as Jewish history and the Holocaust. Her works engage with difficult questions of memory, justice, and identity, providing readers with a thoughtful and scholarly perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIdeal for those interested in history, education, and cultural studies, Dr Jockusch’s books present meticulous research combined with a compassionate approach to understanding the past. Her writing invites readers to reflect on the enduring impact of historical events in contemporary society.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"jewish-revenge-and-the-holocaust-by-dr-laura-jockusch-9781350449251","title":"Jewish Revenge and the Holocaust","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRevenge, argues award-winning author Laura Jockusch, was a ubiquitous coping reaction among European Jews during the Holocaust. It manifested as some acts of violence against Nazi perpetrators and their collaborators, as well as revenge fantasies expressed in diaries, letters, last wills, wall inscriptions, songs, and poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJockusch reveals how Holocaust survivors—alongside other Europeans—continued this multifaceted engagement with revenge after their liberation from Nazi rule, though some survivors claimed in the decades that followed that revenge was absent among Jews.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJewish Revenge and the Holocaust\u003c\/em\u003e examines the complexities of Jewish revenge during and after the Holocaust. It shows that, since revenge is a universal human response to atrocity and injustice, neither the claim that Jews were particularly vengeful (as Nazi perpetrators commonly held) nor the idea that Jews did not engage in revenge, are accurate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRather, revenge had many expressions and fulfilled various functions for the victims and survivors of the Holocaust: a last resort act in face of death; a coping response in utter powerlessness and despair; or a means to confront and commemorate the traumatic past and go on living after destruction and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJockusch convincingly contends that, even if most survivors chose to forgo violent revenge for ethical reasons, they nevertheless engaged with the idea of vengeance. This book analyses that engagement and integrates revenge into the spectrum of Jewish responses to the Holocaust, placing it in the wider context of postwar retribution for Nazi crimes in the process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47932296265964,"sku":"9781350449251","price":43.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350449251-jewish-revenge-and-the-holocaust.jpg?v=1783858342"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/dr-laura-jockusch.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}