The Holocaust and Historical Methodology

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-678-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 488 g

Reihe: Making Sense of History

In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as important for understanding the Holocaust—and, by extension, any past event—as is archival research. It aims to go beyond the dominant paradigm of political history and describe the emergence of methods now being used to reconstruct the past in the context of Holocaust historiography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stone, Dan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Holocaust and Historical Methodology

Dan Stone

PART I: MEMORY AND CULTURE IN THE THIRD REICH

Chapter 1. A World Without Jews: Interpreting the Holocaust

Alon Confino

Chapter 2. Holocaust Historiography and Cultural History

Dan Stone

Chapter 3. The Invisible Crime: Nazi Politics of Memory and Postwar Representations of the Holocaust

Dirk Rupnow

Chapter 4. The History of the Jews in the Ghettos: A Cultural Perspective

Amos Goldberg

Chapter 5. National Socialism, Holocaust and Ecology

Boaz Neumann

PART II: TESTIMONY AND COMMEMORATION

Chapter 6. Bearing Witness: Theological Roots of a New Secular Morality

Samuel Moyn

Chapter 7. Transcending History? Methodological Problems in Holocaust Testimony

Zoë Waxman

Chapter 8. Studying the Holocaust: Is History Commemoration?

Doris L. Bergen

PART III: ANOTHER LOOK AT A CLASSIC OF HOLOCAUST HISTORIOGRAPHY

Chapter 9. An Integrated History of the Holocaust: Some Methodological Challenges

Saul Friedländer

Chapter 10. Truth and Circumstance: What (If Anything) Can Be Properly Said about the Holocaust?

Hayden White

Chapter 11. Modernist Holocaust Historiography: A Dialogue between Saul Friedländer and Hayden White

Wulf Kansteiner

PART IV: THE HOLOCAUST IN THE WORLD

Chapter 12. The Holocaust and European History

Donald Bloxham

Chapter 13. Fascism and the Holocaust

Federico Finchelstein

Chapter 14. The Holocaust and World History: Raphael Lemkin and Comparative Methodology

A. Dirk Moses

Select Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stone, Dan
Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His recent publications include The Historiography of Genocide (ed., 2008), Histories of the Holocaust (2010), and The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History (ed., 2012).

Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His recent publications include The Historiography of Genocide (ed., 2008), Histories of the Holocaust (2010), and The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History (ed., 2012).