The Historiography of the Holocaust

by D. Stone (Editor)

Overview

This collection of essays by leading scholars in their fields provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Holocaust historiography available. Covering both long-established historical disputes as well as research questions and methodologies that have developed in the last decade's massive growth in Holocaust Studies, this collection will be of enormous benefit to students and scholars alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403999276
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/20/2004
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	573
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.05(d)

About the Author

FRANK BAJOHR Lecturer at the Department of History, Universität Hamburg, Germany DONALD BLOXHAM Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Edinburgh, UK CHRISTOPHER R. BROWNING Frank Porter Graham Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA ANDY CHARLESWORTH Reader in Human Geography, University of Gloucestershire, UK JOSH COHEN Lecturer in English at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK TIM COLE Lecturer, University of Bristol, UK MARTIN DEAN Applied Research Scholar at the Centre for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, USA ROBERT ERICKSEN Lecturer, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington DC, USA THOMAS C. FOX Professor of German, Department of Modern Languages and Classics, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA IAN HANCOCK Lecturer in Romani Studies, University of Texas, Austin, USA ODED HEILBRONNER Lecturer at the Koebner Centre for German History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel SUSANNAH HESCHEL Eli Black Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College, UK JOHN KLIER Corob Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London, UK CHRIS KOBRAK Associate Professor of Finance, ESCP-EAP, European School of Management, UK TONY KUSHNER Marcus Sieff Professor of Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations in the Department of History, University of Southampton, UK FLORIN LOBONT Senior Research Associate,Institute for Psychological Studies and Research, West University Timisoara, Romania, and Visiting Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK JÜRGEN MATTHÄUS Historian, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC, USA DAN MICHMAN Professor of Modern Jewish History and Chairman of the Institutes of Holocaust Research and of Research on Diaspora Jewry in Modern Times, Bar-Ilan University, Israel A. DIRK MOSES Lecturer in Late Modern European History, University of Sydney, Australia JEREMY NOAKES Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Exeter, UK LISA PINE Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, South Bank University, London, UK DIETER POHL Research Fellow at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich, Germany ROBERT ROZETT Director of the Library, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel ANDREA H. SCHNEIDER Author, and member of the editorial staff for Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte ZOË WAXMAN Lecturer in Modern European and British History, Mansfield College, Oxford, UK

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Introduction; D.Stone German or Nazi Antisemitism?; O.Heilbronner Hitler and the Third Reich; J.Noakes Ghettoization; T.Cole War, Occupation and the Holocaust in Poland; D.Pohl Expropriation and Expulsion; F.Bajohr Local Collaboration in the Holocaust in Eastern Europe; M.Dean Big Business and the Third Reich: An Appraisal of the Historical Arguments; C.Kobrak & A.H.Schneider The Decision-Making Process; C.R.Browning Historiography and the Perpetrators of the Holocaust; J.Matthäus The Topography of Genocide; A.Charlesworth Britain, the United States and the Holocaust: In Search of a Historiography; T.Kushner The Holocaust and the Soviet Union; J.Klier The German Churches and the Holocaust; R.P.Ericksen & S.Heschel Jewish Leadership in Extremis ; D.Michman Jewish Resistance; R.Rozett Gender and the Family; L.Pine Romanies and the Holocaust: A Re-evaluation and an Overview; I.Hancock From Streicher to Sawoniuk: The Holocaust in the Courtroom; D.Bloxham The Holocaust Under Communism; T.C.Fox Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial in Post-Communist Eastern Europe; F.Lobont Post-Holocaust Philosophy; J.Cohen Testimony and Representation; Z.Waxman Memory, Memorials and Museums; D.Stone The Holocaust and Genocide; A.D.Moses Index

Editorial Reviews

'A remarkable, pathbreaking achievement. More than half a century after Auschwitz a group of largely young academics, all experts in the fields of their scholarship, render a critical and comprehensive account on the Historiography of the Holocaust. The monumental study is a must for everyone engaged in Holocaust research, teaching and education. It sets the tone for future debate both at public and academic level.' - Konrad Kwiet, Adjunct Professor for Jewish Studies and Roth Lecturer in Holocaust Studies, University of Sydney, Australia

'Dan Stone is to be congratulated for having brought together an exceptionally nuanced, sophisticated, and well-focused collection of essays from a wide range of disciplines and national perspectives. Eminent specialists are well represented here, as are the newer insights of a younger generation of scholars. The end-result offers an excellent survey of virtually the whole range of historical thinking and writing in Holocaust Studies today. This is the book for anyone who is looking for a state-of-the-art, authoritative handbook; it will be read and re-read.' - Professor Jonathan Webber, UNESCO Chair in Jewish and Interfaith Studies, University of Birmingham, UK

'The Historiography of the Holocaust will undoubtedly become a standard work, indispensable for those teaching in the field...Dan Stone's edited volume will provide a compass for those entering the field and a standard of excellence for those interested in historiography in general and the Holocaust in particular.' - Milton Shain, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies

'[A] remarkable, path breaking achievement. More than half a century after Auschwitz a group of largely young academics, all experts in the fields of their scholarship, render a critical and comprehensive account on the historiography of the Holocaust. This monumental study is a must for everyone engaged in Holocaust research, teaching and education. It sets the tone for future debate at both public and academic level.' - Konrad Kwiet, Adjunct Professor for Jewish Studies and Roth Lecturer in Holocaust Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia

'Dan Stone is to be congratulated for having brought together an exceptionally nuanced, sophisticated, and well-focused collection of essays from a wide range of disciplines and national perspectives. Eminent specialists are well represented here, as are the newer insights of a younger generation of scholars. The end-result offers an excellent survey of virtually the whole range of historical thinking and writing in Holocaust Studies today. This is the book for anyone who is looking for a state-of-the art, authoritative handbook; it will be read and re-read.' - Jonathan Webber, UNESCO Chair in Jewish and Interfaith Studies, Department of Theology, University of Birmingham, UK

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