Holocaust and Masculinities

Björn Krondorfer is Director of the Martin-Springer Institute and Endowed Professor of Religious Studies at Northern Arizona University. He is the author of several books, including Reconciliation in Global Context: Why It Is Needed and How It Works, also published by SUNY Press. Ovidiu Creangă is Historian for the Claims Conference in New York and Adjunct Professor of Hebrew Bible at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC. He is the editor of Men and Masculinity in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionBjörn Krondorfer and Ovidiu CreangăPart I: Genocide 1. Hiding in Plain View: Bringing Critical Men's Studies and Holocaust Studies into ConversationBjörn Krondorfer2. Masculinity and Death: De- and Resexualization in Nazi Concentration CampsRobert Sommer3. The Experiences and Behavior of Male Holocaust Victims at AuschwitzLisa Pine4. "Higher Reasons for Sending People to Death?" Male Narrativity and Moral Dilemmas in Memoirs and Diaries of Jewish DoctorsMonika Rice5. Muselmänner in Nazi Concentration Camps: Thinking Masculinity at the ExtremesMichael Becker and Dennis Bock6. Tests of Manhood: Alcohol, Sexual Violence, and Killing in the HolocaustEdward B. Westermann7. Catholic Seminarians and Vernichtungskrieg: How Nationalism, Religion, and Masculinity MatteredLauren Faulkner RossiPart II: Aftermath 8. Contested Manhood: Autobiographical Reflections of German Protestant Theologians after World War IIBenedikt Brunner9. Post-Holocaust Conceptualizations of Masculinity in AustriaCarson Phillips10. Multiple Masculinities among German Jewish Refugees: A Transnational Comparison between Canada and Palestine/IsraelPatrick Farges11. Redemptive Masculinity: American Images of Jewish Men from the Holocaust to the Six-Day WarSarah ImhoffEpilogue: The Holocaust and MasculinitiesThomas KühneContributorsAuthor IndexSubject Index

"The proposition that binds these 13 contributions into a single, well-conceived volume is that a gendered approach to the Holocaust enriches understanding of this complex phenomenon … Highly recommended." — CHOICE"This is a carefully constructed and field-defining work that will influence a generation of new scholars and be cited and discussed for years to come. It builds on the existing scholarship on women and the Holocaust in a way that enriches our understanding of the intersectionality of masculinity and femininity." — Zoë Waxman, author of Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist History"The contributors articulate some of the challenges for studying masculinity with regards to victims of the Holocaust, making a convincing case for the benefits to be gained from doing so." — Clayton J. Whisnant, author of Queer Identities and Politics in Germany: A History, 1880–1945