Author: Jürgen Matthäus File Type: pdf Historians long have analyzed the emergence of the final solution of the Jewish question primarily on the basis of German documentation, devoting much less attention to wartime Jewish perceptions of the growing threat. Jurgen Matthaus fills this critical gap by showcasing the highly insightful reports compiled during the first half of World War II by two Geneva-based offices those of Richard Lichtheim representing the Jewish Agency for Palestine and of Gerhart Riegners World Jewish Congress office. Since the first days of war, Lichtheims predictions of Jewish dead ran in the millions and increased progressively with the rising tide of Nazi rule over Europe. His and Riegners perceptions of German anti-Jewish policy resulted from shared goals and personal experiences as well as from their bureaus range of functions and the massive problems that impacted the gathering and communicating of information on the unfolding Holocaust in German-controlled Europe. Beyond the specifics of the wartime Geneva setting, these sources show how human cognition works in times of extreme crisis and contribute to a better understanding of the potential inherent in Jewish sources for gauging perpetrator actions. The reports and contextual information featured here reflect the first narratives on the Holocaust, their emergence, evolution, and importance for post-war historiography. **Review This latest analysis and collection of Jewish sources, focusing on prescient reports from Geneva, 1939--1942, is truly excellent. Despite decades of reading Holocaust documents, I found the accumulative effect of reading these reports powerful and moving. This volume is a superb addition to an important series. (Christopher R. Browning) This volume provides invaluable insights and provokes important questions about the way a small group of uniquely positioned Jewish officials conceptualized Nazi anti-Jewish policy and its origins, logic, and trajectory at the time when the Holocaust was unfolding. The documents that form the centerpiece of the book are reports from 19391942 by Richard Lichtheim and Gerhart Riegner, the heads of the Geneva offices of two major Jewish organizations. These reports were shaped by a blend of personal experience (which in Lichtheims case included witnessing the Armenian genocide during the First World War), political perspectives, a location at a European diplomatic and lobbying hub, and the accompanying privileged yet partial access to factual information. Contrasting Riegners more famous claim to have revealed a particular Hitler plan with Lichtheims earlier descriptions of a vacillating German policy, the editor encourages us to reflect upon the way these narratives cohere with, and even informed, the cardinal competing scholarly interpretations of the development of the final solution. (Donald Bloxham, University of Edinburgh author of The Final Solution A Genocide) About the Author Jurgen Matthaus is director of the Applied Research Division at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Author: Ange-Marie Hancock File Type: pdf Intersectionality theory has emerged over the past thirty years as a way to think about the avenues by which inequalities (most often dealing with, but not limited to, race, gender, class and sexuality) are produced. Rather than seeing such categories as signaling distinct identities that can be adopted, imposed or rejected, intersectionality theory considers the logic by which each of these categories is socially constructed as well as how they operate within the diffusion of power relations. In other words, social and political power are conferred through categories of identity, and these identities bear vastly material effects. Rather than look at inequalities as a relationship between those at the center and those on the margins, intersectionality maps the relative ways in which identity politics create power. Though intersectionality theory has emerged as a highly influential school of thought in ethnic studies, gender studies, law, political science, sociology and psychology, no scholarship to date exists on the evolution of the theory. In the absence of a comprehensive intellectual history of the theory, it is often discussed in vague, ahistorical terms. And while scholars have called for greater specificity and attention to the historical foundations of intersectionality theory, their idea of the history to be included is generally limited to the particular currents in the United States. This book seeks to remedy the vagueness and murkiness attributed to intersectionality by attending to the historical, geographical, and cross-disciplinary myopia afflicting current intersectionality scholarship. This comprehensive intellectual history is an agenda-setting work for the theory. **

Author: John Whittier-Ferguson File Type: pdf Framing Pieces takes as its starting point the premise that the frames of modern art - the notes, marginalia, critical essays, and longer prose pieces with which James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Ezra Pound surrounded their texts - perform complex aesthetic and socio-political work. John Whittier-Ferguson discusses a variety of texts and contexts, including Finnegans Wake, A Room of Ones Own, The Pargiters, Three Guineas, and Pounds prose and poetry from the 1930s. He argues that the study of twentieth-century apparatus is crucial to the comprehension of the text it brackets and of the self-conscious, self-promoting, and self-elucidating and obscuring nature of the moderns gathered in this book. Whittier-Ferguson introduces his inquiry with a discussion of the paradigmatic instance of the modernist apparatus, Eliots notes to The Waste Land. From there, he leads his readers into an exploration of questions central to the study of modernism today. He considers the political inflections of Modernist texts and traces the uncertain domain of the avant-garde. Further, Whittier-Ferguson determines the means by which writers make claims to different forms of cultural authority and demonstrates the ways an authors designs are themselves ultimately framed by historical forces that resist all designing. Turning his readers attention to the margins of canonical modernism, Whittier-Ferguson newly illuminates authors and texts central to an understanding of twentieth-century art and culture.

Author: Giorgio Franceschetti File Type: pdf This book provides a comprehensive overview of electromagnetic scattering from natural surfaces, ranging from the classical to the more recent (fractal) approach. As remote sensing applications become increasingly important, this text provides readers with a solid background in interpretation, classification and thematization of microwave images. The scattering problem is discussed in detail with emphasis on its application to electromagnetic wave propagation, remote sensing, radar detection, and electromagnetic diagnostics. Natural surface and fractals complete this treatise focusing on how the fractal model represents our natural environment and other planets in our solar system, most recently as used to research the planet Venus and Titan, one of the moons of Saturn. An example of how scattering, fractals, and natural surfaces are of great importance is the following Natural oil slicks in the ocean have been found to be fractal while man-made ones (generated by illegal washing of oil carrying ships) are not. Processing of an ocean image from space may detect the latter by means of a fractal analysis. An elegant and clear treatment of a rigorous topic with informative prose and realistic illustrations of scatteringProvides readers with a solid background in interpretation, classification, and thematization of microwave images*The only book available on fractal models and their application to scattering**