was Martin Luther. And Luther and his followers were to play a central role in the Protestant world that was to emerge from the Reformation process, both in Germany and the wider world.
In all senses of the term, this religious pioneer was a huge figure in European history. Yet there is also the very uncomfortable but at the same time undeniable fact that he was an anti-semite. Written by one of the world ' s leading authorities on the Reformation, this is the vexed and sometimes shocking story of Martin Luther ' s increasingly vitriolic attitude towards the Jews over the course of his lifetime, set against the backdrop of a world in religious turmoil.
A final chapter then reflects on the extent to which the legacy of Luther ' s antisemitism was to taint the Lutheran church over the following centuries. Scheduled for publication on the five hundredth anniversary of the Reformation ' s birth, in light of the subsequent course of German history it is a tale both sobering and ominous in equal measure.
Women in the Holocaust Zoë Waxman [ 2017 ]
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Offers a comprehensive study of women ' s lives during the Holocaust. Uses witness testimony to attempt to understand the Holocaust through the eyes of the women themselves. Covers women ' s experiences in the ghettos, in hiding, in the concentration camps, and in the Displaced Persons camps. Forces the reader to rethink our relationship to the gendered nature of knowledge.
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