Editors introduction : through the window again : revisiting modernity and the Holocaust / Jack Palmer & Dariusz Brzeziński -- Modernity or decivilization? Bauman's thesis after 30 years / Larry Ray -- The sociology of modernity, the ethnography of the Holocaust : what Zygmunt Bauman knew / Joanna Tokarska-Bakir -- From understanding victims to victims' understanding : rationality, shame and other emotions in modernity and the Holocaust / Dominic Williams -- Warsaw Jews in the face of the Holocaust : 'trajectory' as the key concept in understanding victims' behaviour / Maria Ferenc -- Visual representations of modernity in documents from the Łódź Ghetto / Paweł Michna -- Reassessing modernity and the Holocaust in the light of genocide in Bosnia / Arne Johan Vetlesen -- The Rwandan genocide and the multiplicity of modernity / Jack Palmer -- Janina Bauman : to remain human in inhuman conditions / Lydia Bauman -- Janina and Zygmunt Bauman : a case study of inspiring collaboration / Izabela Wagner -- Reading modernity and the Holocaust with and against winter in the morning / Griselda Pollock -- Bauman, the Frankfurt School, and the tradition of enlightened catastrophism / Jonathon Catlin -- Modernity and the Holocaust and the concentrationary universe / Max Silverman -- Off-the-scene : an afterword / Bryan Cheyette.