Paul A. Swift. Becoming Nietzsche: Early Reflections on Democritus, Schopenhauer, and Kant. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2005. xii + 134 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7391-0981-6.
Reviewed by Nicholas Martin (Department of German Studies, University of Birmingham) Published on H-German (October, 2006)
Being Friedrich Nietzsche
Gerd Korman. Nightmare's Fairy Tale: A Young Refugee's Home Fronts 1938-1948. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. x + 186 pp. $19.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-21080-9.
Reviewed by Kimberly Redding (Carroll University) Published on H-German (October, 2006)
More Than a Memoir
Alan Steinweis. Studying the Jew. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. 204 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-02205-8.
Reviewed by Eric Ehrenreich (Independent Scholar [Washington, D.C.]) Published on H-German (October, 2006)
Establishing the Nazis' Intellectual Bona Fides
Joshua Hirsch. Afterimage: Film, Trauma, and the Holocaust. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. xvi + 213 pp. $66.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-59213-208-9.
Reviewed by Heike Polster (Department of Foreign Languages, University of Memphis) Published on H-German (October, 2006)
Film as Vicarious Trauma
Mark W. Clark. Beyond Catastrophe: German Intellectuals and Cultural Renewal after World War II, 1945-1955. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2006. 208 pp. $72.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7391-1231-1; $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7391-1506-0.
Reviewed by Deborah Vietor-Englaender (Technische Universität Darmstadt) Published on H-German (October, 2006)
"Alas poor Herbert! I knew him, Horatio."
Emily D. Bilski, Emily Braun. Jewish Women and Their Salons: The Power of Conversation. New York and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xiii + 266 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-10385-4.
Reviewed by Jay Geller (Department of History, Vanderbilt University)
Published on H-German (October, 2006)
Voices or Echoes
Marion Kaplan, Beate Meyer. Jüdische Welten: Juden in Deutschland vom 18. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2005. 492 S. EUR 38.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-89244-888-4.
Reviewed by Jay Howard Geller (Department of History, University of Tulsa) Published on H-German (October, 2006)
Voices or Echoes
Martyn Housden. Hans Frank, Lebensraum and the Holocaust. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. ix + 315 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4039-1579-5.
Reviewed by Jeff Rutherford (Department of History, Wheeling Jesuit University) Published on H-German (October, 2006)
"The Vanity of Evil": Hans Frank and the Management of Lebensraum
Kathleen Canning. Gender History in Practice: Historical Perspectives on Bodies, Class and Citizenship. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. xiii + 284 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-4357-2.
Reviewed by Ann Allen (Department of History, University of Louisville) Published on H-German (October, 2006)
Difficult Dichotomies: The Theory and Practice of Gender History
Thomas Adam, ed. Philanthropy, Patronage and Civil Society: Experiences from Germany, Great Britain and North America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 228 pp. $37.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-34313-0.
Reviewed by Angela Schwarz (Department of History, University of Siegen) Published on H-German (October, 2006)
