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The lampshade : a Holocaust detective story from Buchenwald to New Orleans / Mark Jacobson. --
Record details
- ISBN: 1416566287 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781416566281 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 357 p. : ill.
- Publisher: New York ; Simon & Schuster, c2010.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-334), Internet addresses (p. 334-337) and index. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 17.00 |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Jacobson, Mark. World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities > Germany. Lampshades. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Moral and ethical aspects. Skin > History. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 940.5318 Jac | 31681002584548 | NONFICPBK | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A contributing journalist toNew York magazine and other publications recounts his historical, moral and philosophical journey of discovery after learning of the grisly Nazi practice of fashioning objects from human skin. By the author of 12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time . Reprint. 40,000 first printing. - Simon and Schuster
Few growing up in the aftermath of World War II will ever forget the horrifying reports that Nazi concentration camp doctors had removed the skin of prison ers to make common, everyday lampshades. In The Lampshade, bestselling journalist Mark Jacobson tells the story of how he came into possession of one of these awful objects, and of his search to establish the origin, and larger meaning, of what can only be described as an icon of terror.
From Hurricane Katrinaâravaged New Orleans to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem to the Buchenwald concentration camp to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, almost everything Jacobson uncovers about the lampshade is contradictory, mysterious, shot through with legend and specious information. Through interviews with forensic experts, famous Holocaust scholars (and deniers), Buchenwald survivors and liberators, and New Orleans thieves and cops, Jacobson gradually comes to see the lampshade as a ghostly illuminator of his own existential status as a Jew, and to understand exactly what that means in the context of human responsibility. One question looms as his search progresses: what to do with the lampshadeâthis unsettling thing that used to be someone?
