Saul Friedländer Knihy

Postoj papeže Pia XII. k Hitlerově říši a důvody jeho mlčení k systematickému vyhlazování evropských Židů vedly k stísňujícím otázkám a vášnivým polemikám. Tváří v tvář takovému problému si může historik stěží činit nároky na úplnou objektivitu. Ale i přes zmatení ducha vinou nejrůznějších a někdy i velmi podivných obvinění je možné spravedlivé bádání, jestliže se historik bude co nejvíce opírat o dokumenty. Právě tuto metodu zvolil autor při svém bádání. Autor prozkoumal uveřejněné sbírky britských a amerických listin, několik textů publikovaných Vatikánem, dosud neuveřejněné dokumenty Židovského světového kongresu a Sionistického archívu v Jeruzalémě, nepublikovaný dokument říšského kancléřství a především většinou neuveřejněné dokumenty ministerstva zahraničí třetí říše. Obsáhl období od března 1939, kdy byl zvolen papež Pius Xll., do září 1944. Publikovaný text dokumentů je doprovázen komentáři, jež osvětlují situaci, za níž vznikl. Dospívá k závěru, že až do roku 1944 měl papež v oblibě Německo a že se bál bolševizace Evropy. Z francouzského originálu „Pie XII. et le IIIe Reich: documents“ přeložil Jan Stehlík. Doslov „Diplomacie bez filosofie“ napsal Jaroslav Hranička. 1. vydání.

Saul Friedländer, který se mimochodem narodil v Praze a unikl holokaustu, v této bohatě dokumentované knize odpovídá na otázku, jež vrhla temný stín na poválečný svět: jak mohl jeden z nejvyspělejších evropských národů vyhladit na šest milionů nevinných obětí? Dává přitom velké slovo přímým svědkům – nikoli pamětem, ty nebývají vždycky spolehlivé, ale dobovým deníkům a dopisům obětí i pachatelů, stejně jako oficiálním projevům a úředním výnosům. První část knihy, zabývající se národně socialistickou kampaní útlaku, přináší hlasy Židů, kteří se po nástupu nacistů ocitli ve stále více děsivé realitě. Druhá část pokrývá německou vyhlazovací politiku, která vedla k vraždě šesti milionů evropských Židů - oficiální program, který závisel na spolupráci místních úřadů a policejních útvarů, pasivitě obyvatelstva a ochotě obětí podlehnout zoufalé naději, že přežijete natolik dlouho, než uniknete německé svěráku. Kniha Nacistické Německo a Židé je základní studiem této temné a složité historie.

An abridged edition of Saul Friedlander's definitive two-volume history of the Holocaust: THE YEARS OF PERSECUTION and THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION. Saul Friedlander's historical masterpiece is perhaps the richest examination of the Holocaust yet written, and, crucially, one that never loses sight of the experiences of individuals in its discussion of Nazi politics and the terrible statistics and technological and administrative sophistication of the Final Solution. The book's first part, dealing with the National Socialist campaign of oppression, restores the voices of Jews who were engulfed in an increasingly horrifying reality following the Nazi accession to power. Friedländer also provides the accounts of the persecutors themselves - and, perhaps most telling of all, the testimonies of ordinary German citizens. The second part covers the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews.

A magisterial history of the Jews in Nazi Germany and the regime's policies towards them in the years prior to World War II and the Holocaust. Written by arguably the world's leading scholar on the subject. číst celé

"A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's return to memoir, a tale of intellectual coming-of-age on three continents, published in tandem with his classic work of Holocaust literature, When Memory Comes Forty years after his acclaimed, poignant first memoir, Friedlander returns with WHEN MEMORY COMES: THE LATER YEARS, bridging the gap between the ordeals of his childhood and his present-day towering reputation in the field of Holocaust studies. After abandoning his youthful conversion to Catholicism, he rediscovers his Jewish roots as a teenager and builds a new life in Israeli politics. Friedlander's initial loyalty to Israel turns into a lifelong fascination with Jewish life and history. He struggles to process the ubiquitous effects of European anti-Semitism while searching for a more measured approach to the Zionism that surrounds him. Friedlander goes on to spend his adulthood shuttling between Israel, Europe, and the United States, armed with his talent for language and an expansive intellect. His prestige inevitably throws him up against other intellectual heavyweights. In his early years in Israel, he rubs shoulders with the architects of the fledgling state and brilliant minds such as Gershom Scholem and Carlo Ginzburg, among others. Most importantly, this memoir led Friedlander to reflect on the wrenching events that induced him to devote sixteen years of his life to writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945"-- Provided by publisher

Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945 is an abridged edition of Saul Friedländer's definitive Pulitzer Prize-winning two-volume history of the Holocaust: Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939 and The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945. The book's first part, dealing with the National Socialist campaign of oppression, restores the voices of Jews who were engulfed in an increasingly horrifying reality following the Nazi accession to power. Friedländer also provides the accounts of the persecutors themselves—and, perhaps most telling of all, the testimonies of ordinary German citizens who, in general, stood silent and unmoved by the increasing waves of segregation, humiliation, impoverishment, and violence. The second part covers the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews—an official program that depended upon the cooperation of local authorities and police departments, the passivity of the populations, and the willingness of the victims to submit in desperate hope of surviving long enough to escape the German vise. A monumental, multifaceted study now contained in a single volume, Saul Friedländer's Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945 is an essential study of a dark and complex history.

A classic of Holocaust literature, the eloquent, acclaimed memoir of childhood by a Pulitzer-winning historian, now reissued with a new introduction by Claire Messud Four months before Hitler came to power, Saul Friedländer was born in Prague to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1939, seven-year-old Saul and his family were forced to flee to France, where they lived through the German Occupation, until his parents' ill-fated attempt to flee to Switzerland. They were able to hide their son in a Roman Catholic seminary before being sent to Auschwitz where they were killed. After an imposed religious conversion, young Saul began training for priesthood. The birth of Israel prompted his discovery of his Jewish past and his true identity. Friedländer brings his story movingly to life, shifting between his Israeli present and his European past with grace and restraint. His keen eye spares nothing, not even himself, as he explores the ways in which the loss of his parents, his conversion to Catholicism, and his deep-seated Jewish roots combined to shape him into the man he is today. Friedländer's retrospective view of his journey of grief and self-discovery provides readers with a rare experience: a memoir of feeling with intellectual backbone, in equal measure tender and insightful.

Named a Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian revisits Marcel Proust’s masterpiece in this essay on literature and memory, exploring the question of identity—that of the novel’s narrator and Proust’s own. This engaging reexamination of In Search of Lost Time considers how the narrator defines himself, how this compares to what we know of Proust himself, and what the significance is of these various points of commonality and divergence. We know, for example, that the author did not hide his homosexuality, but the narrator did. Why the difference? We know that the narrator tried to marginalize his part-Jewish background. Does this reflect the author’s position, and how does the narrator handle what he tries, but does not manage, to dismiss? These are major questions raised by the text and reflected in the text, to which the author’s life doesn’t give obvious answers. The narrator’s reflections on time, on death, on memory, and on love are as many paths leading to the image of self that he projects. In Proustian Uncertainties, Saul Friedländer draws on his personal experience from a life spent investigating the ties between history and memory to offer a fresh perspective on the seminal work.