Genocide: Reflections on the Inconceivable: Theoretical Aspects in Genocide Studies

by Yair Auron

Genocide is a serious crime in which people kill other people solely because oftheir belonging to a national, ethnic, racial, or religious grouping, unrelated to anypersonal charge of wrongdoing on their part. This book explores the concept ofgenocide (as well as other distinct but related concepts, such as hatred, politicide,democide, and ethnocide), the difficulties in defining the term, and the debates thatsurround it. It also considers some of the theories and typologies that attempt toexplain the acts of genocide that continue to be perpetrated even after the Holocaustand that have thus far taken the lives of millions of innocent people. Reflections on the Theoretical Aspects in Genocide Studies is partof the series Genocide, which offers a comprehensive exploration of the subject.Each volume constitutes an integral component of this larger endeavor, but alsostands alone in its own right.Titles in the series Gutfeld, Genocide in the "Land of the Free": The Indians of Northern America, 1776-1890Eitan Ginzberg, Conflictual The Destruction of the Indian Peoples of Spanish AmericaYair Auron, The Armenian Forgotten and DeniedAriel Hurwitz, The Destruction of the Jews by Nazi GermanyBenyamin Neuberger, Rwanda 1994: Genocide in the "Land of a Thousand Hills"Israel Charny, "And You Shall Destroy the Evil Inside of You": We are theHuman Beings who Commit Holocaust and GenocideGilad Margalit, Nazi Germany and the GypsiesProfessor Yair Auron, author of this book and editor of the series, is a lecturer ongenocide, genocide education, and contemporary Jewry at the Open University ofIsrael. He has published numerous books and essays on these subjects in Israel, USA and Europe.

182 pages, Paperback

Published February 16, 2015