This collection of essays provides an exceptional compendium of informed and thought-provoking commentaries both justifiably honoring and critically assessing a masterwork of history, memory, and mourning that will, for the foreseeable future, be crucial in shaping the study and prompting newer understandings of the "final solution" and extreme historical processes in general. The reader...will be consistently challenged to rethink pre-existing approaches and interpretations.

- Dominick LaCapra, Bryce and Edith M.Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies, Cornell University,

Saul Friedländer is rightly regarded as one of the very most important scholars of the Holocaust, a superb narrative historian and a hugely sensitive theoretician of his discipline. Christian Wiese and Paul Betts are to be congratulated on constructing a fitting monument to his influence, bringing together a wonderful cast of scholars who have achieved prominence in their own right...Wide-ranging and intelligent, the volume is coherent and its essays concise: it demands a wide audience because it will benefit a spectrum of disciplines, and readers from the uninitiated to the expert.

- Donald Bloxham, Professor of Modern History at the University of Edinburgh, UK,

This is a rich collection on the state of Holocaust studies.

- thejc.com,