As historian Michael Marrus’s famous definition of the Holocaust as “the systematic mass murder of European Jewry by the Nazis” suggests, cultural and academic discourses have traditionally afforded little consideration to the extra-European histories and memories of mid-century fascist antisemitism. The past decade and a half has seen a significant broadening of this framing, as scholars have begun highlighting how racial laws and anti-Jewish persecution affected native North African Jews and Muslims (Boum and Stein, 2018; Bottecchia and Oppizzi, 2026), how European Jews sought refuge in Muslim-majority lands to the east and across the Asian continent (Guttstadt, 2013; Cho, Kurlander, and McGetchin, 2025), and how communities across the globe have responded to the history and memory of the mid-century genocide of the Jews (Achcar, 2011; Kissi, 2021; Celinscak and Mehnaz, 2025). These changes accompany a significant shift in the way that Holocaust Studies scholars conceive of the relationship between the Shoah and other, ostensibly unrelated, episodes of mass political violence (Rothberg, 2009; Silverman, 2013; Baer, 2017).
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