Das Buch bietet einen transdisziplinären Überblick über Genozide im 20. Jahrhundert. Dabei werden die Genese, der Verlauf und die Folgen vernichtender politischer Gewalt an unterschiedlichen Fallstudien – insbesondere zur Schoah, den Völkermorden in Armenien und Ruanda, im ehemaligen Jugoslawien, Kambodscha und in den Subsahara-Staaten – erörtert. Ebenso werden einige literarische wie künstlerisch-darstellerische Versuche vorgestellt, der Erinnerung an die Verbrechen eine Gestalt zu geben.

The series European-Jewish Studies reflects the international network and competence of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish studies (MMZ). Particular emphasis is placed on the way in which history, the humanities and cultural sciences approach the subject, as well as on fundamental intellectual, political and religious questions that inspire Jewish life and thinking today, and have influenced it in the past.

The series European-Jewish Studies reflects the international network and competence of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish studies (MMZ). Particular emphasis is placed on the way in which history, the humanities and cultural sciences approach the subject, as well as on fundamental intellectual, political and religious questions that inspire Jewish life and thinking today, and have influenced it in the past.

The series European-Jewish Studies reflects the international network and competence of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish studies (MMZ). Particular emphasis is placed on the way in which history, the humanities and cultural sciences approach the subject, as well as on fundamental intellectual, political and religious questions that inspire Jewish life and thinking today, and have influenced it in the past.