{"product_id":"jewish-revenge-and-the-holocaust-laura-jockusch-9781350449268","title":"Jewish Revenge and the Holocaust: History, Memory, and Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003eRevenge, argues award-winning author Laura Jockusch, was a ubiquitous coping reaction among European Jews during the Holocaust. It manifested as some acts of violence against Nazi perpetrators and their collaborators as well as revenge fantasies expressed in diaries, letters, last wills, wall inscriptions, songs, and poems. Jockusch reveals how Holocaust survivors-alongside other Europeans-continued this multifaceted engagement with revenge after their liberation from Nazi rule, though some survivors claimed in the decades that followed that revenge was absent among Jews. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eJewish Revenge and the Holocaust \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the complexities of Jewish revenge during and after the Holocaust. It shows that, since revenge is a universal human response to atrocity and injustice, neither the claim that Jews were particularly vengeful (as Nazi perpetrators commonly held) nor the idea that Jews did not engage in revenge, are accurate. Rather, revenge had many expressions and it fulfilled various functions for the victims and survivors of the Holocaust: a last resort act in face of death; or a coping response in utter powerlessness and despair; or a means to confront and commemorate the traumatic past and to go on living after destruction and loss. Jockusch convincingly contends that, even if most survivors chose to forgo violent revenge for ethical reasons, they nevertheless engaged with the idea of vengeance. This book analyses that engagement and integrates revenge into the spectrum of Jewish responses to the Holocaust, placing it in the wider context of postwar retribution for Nazi crimes in the process.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Jockusch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350449261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350449268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Laura Jockusch","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48175789670655,"sku":"9781350449268","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cbf29c9d-8ddf-4736-bbcd-004543eedcd7.jpg?v=1771335918","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jewish-revenge-and-the-holocaust-laura-jockusch-9781350449268","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}