Lawrence Baron
Biographic Data
| ID | 3864294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence Baron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence |
| FAMILY NAME | Baron |
| SIGNATURE | BARON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Survivor
Boxing is a Darwinian enterprise, with victory going to the most athletic, fit, and skilled rival over their opponent. In Nazi concentration and death camps, however, winning meant survival, with the incapacitated loser being gassed or shot after the contenders brutalized each other without wearing gloves. For the SS guards and officers, such pugilistic spectacles provided entertainment, an opportunity to gamble, and contrived confirmation that t…
Steven Spielberg: Interviews, Revised and Updated ed. by Brent Notbohm and Lester D. Friedman
Reviewed by: Steven Spielberg: Interviews, Revised and Updated ed. by Brent Notbohm and Lester D. Friedman Lawrence Baron (bio) Steven Spielberg: Interviews, Revised and Updated. Edited by Brent Notbohm and Lester D. Friedman. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019. 212 pp., ISBN 9781496824028 (pb), US $30.95. One can gauge how much attitudes toward Steven Spielberg’s movies have changed between the publication of the first edition of Ste…
On Reimer and Reimer’s Historical Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema
On Reimer and Reimer's Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema. By Robert C. Reimer and Carol J. Reimer. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2012. 272 pp., ISBN 978-0-8108-6756-7 (hc). US $75.00.As part of the Scarecrow Press series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts, Robert and Carol Reimer's volume on Holocaust cinema fulfills the aim of these reference works to provide concise A-to-Z entries on key events and fi…
On Bernardi et al.'s Hollywood's Chosen People
On Bernardi et al.'s Hollywood's Chosen People Hollywood's Chosen People: The Experience in American Cinema. Edited by Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 2013. 270 pp., ISBN 978-08143-9 (pbk). US $31.95.This collection aims highlight ways in which the experience is essential both to the history of Jews in and to the history of film and media in America (12). The contributors…
The First Wave of American “Holocaust” Films, 1945–1959
The Holocaust and American Public Memory, 1945–1960
Until the 1960s, many scholars assert, most Americans' awareness of the Holocaust was based upon vague, trivial, or inaccurate representations. Yet the extermination of the Jews was remembered in significant ways, this article posits, through World War II accounts, the Nuremberg trials, philosophical works, comparisons with Soviet totalitarianism, Christian and Jewish theological reflections, pioneering scholarly publications, and mass-media port…
Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America
Journal Article Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America Get access Lawrence Baron Lawrence Baron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 17, Issue 2, Fall 2003, Pages 373–375, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcg014 Published: 01 January 2003
Evangelical Converts, Corrie Ten Boom, and the Holocaust: A Response to Yaakov Ariel
Embracing the Other: Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism
The Transfer Agreement: The Untold Story of the Secret Pact between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine
The Holocaust and the Crisis of Human Behavior
Die Judenretter aus Deutschland
Die Juden im Slowakischen Staat, 1939-1945
Noise and Degeneration: Theodor Lessing's Crusade for Quiet
Deutschlands auswartige Kulturpolitik, 1918-1932: Grundlinien und Dokumente
The Homosexual Emancipation Movement in Germany
Prophet of Community: The Romantic Socialism of Gustav Landauer
The Holocaust and American Public Memory, 1945–1960
Until the 1960s, many scholars assert, most Americans' awareness of the Holocaust was based upon vague, trivial, or inaccurate representations. Yet the extermination of the Jews was remembered in significant ways, this article posits, through World War II accounts, the Nuremberg trials, philosophical works, comparisons with Soviet totalitarianism, Christian and Jewish theological reflections, pioneering scholarly publications, and mass-media port…
The First Wave of American “Holocaust” Films, 1945–1959
Noise and Degeneration: Theodor Lessing's Crusade for Quiet
Evangelical Converts, Corrie Ten Boom, and the Holocaust: A Response to Yaakov Ariel
Prophet of Community: The Romantic Socialism of Gustav Landauer
The Homosexual Emancipation Movement in Germany
Deutschlands auswartige Kulturpolitik, 1918-1932: Grundlinien und Dokumente
Die Juden im Slowakischen Staat, 1939-1945
Noise and Degeneration: Theodor Lessing's Crusade for Quiet
The Holocaust and the Crisis of Human Behavior
Die Judenretter aus Deutschland
The Transfer Agreement: The Untold Story of the Secret Pact between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine
Embracing the Other: Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism
Evangelical Converts, Corrie Ten Boom, and the Holocaust: A Response to Yaakov Ariel
The Holocaust and American Public Memory, 1945–1960
Until the 1960s, many scholars assert, most Americans' awareness of the Holocaust was based upon vague, trivial, or inaccurate representations. Yet the extermination of the Jews was remembered in significant ways, this article posits, through World War II accounts, the Nuremberg trials, philosophical works, comparisons with Soviet totalitarianism, Christian and Jewish theological reflections, pioneering scholarly publications, and mass-media port…
Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America
Journal Article Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America Get access Lawrence Baron Lawrence Baron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 17, Issue 2, Fall 2003, Pages 373–375, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcg014 Published: 01 January 2003
The First Wave of American “Holocaust” Films, 1945–1959
On Reimer and Reimer’s Historical Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema
On Reimer and Reimer's Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema Dictionary of Holocaust Cinema. By Robert C. Reimer and Carol J. Reimer. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2012. 272 pp., ISBN 978-0-8108-6756-7 (hc). US $75.00.As part of the Scarecrow Press series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts, Robert and Carol Reimer's volume on Holocaust cinema fulfills the aim of these reference works to provide concise A-to-Z entries on key events and fi…
On Bernardi et al.'s Hollywood's Chosen People
On Bernardi et al.'s Hollywood's Chosen People Hollywood's Chosen People: The Experience in American Cinema. Edited by Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 2013. 270 pp., ISBN 978-08143-9 (pbk). US $31.95.This collection aims highlight ways in which the experience is essential both to the history of Jews in and to the history of film and media in America (12). The contributors…
Steven Spielberg: Interviews, Revised and Updated ed. by Brent Notbohm and Lester D. Friedman
Reviewed by: Steven Spielberg: Interviews, Revised and Updated ed. by Brent Notbohm and Lester D. Friedman Lawrence Baron (bio) Steven Spielberg: Interviews, Revised and Updated. Edited by Brent Notbohm and Lester D. Friedman. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019. 212 pp., ISBN 9781496824028 (pb), US $30.95. One can gauge how much attitudes toward Steven Spielberg’s movies have changed between the publication of the first edition of Ste…
The Survivor
Boxing is a Darwinian enterprise, with victory going to the most athletic, fit, and skilled rival over their opponent. In Nazi concentration and death camps, however, winning meant survival, with the incapacitated loser being gassed or shot after the contenders brutalized each other without wearing gloves. For the SS guards and officers, such pugilistic spectacles provided entertainment, an opportunity to gamble, and contrived confirmation that t…
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