The Jews, the Holocaust, and the Public: The Legacies of David Cesarani

by Larissa Allwork (Editor), Rachel Pistol (Editor)

Overview

This book explores the work and legacy of Professor David Cesarani OBE, a leading British scholar and expert on Jewish history who helped to shape Holocaust research, remembrance and education in the UK. It is a unique combination of chapters produced by researchers, curators and commemoration activists who either worked with and/or were taught by the late Cesarani. The chapters in this collection consider the legacies of Cesarani’s contribution to the discipline of history and the practice of public history. The contributors offer reflections on Cesarani’s approach and provide new insights into the study of Anglo-Jewish history, immigrants and minorities and the history and public legacies of the Holocaust.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030286774
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	11/26/2019
Series:	The Holocaust and its Contexts
Edition description:	1st ed. 2019
Pages:	365
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Larissa Allwork is a Researcher in Impact at The University of Derby, UK. She is the author of Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational: The Skholm International Forum and the First Decade of the International Task Force (2015). She has taught the history of the Holocaust at the University of Northampton, the University of Leicester and Loughborough University.

 

Rachel Pistol is a Researcher at King’s College London, UK on the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI). Her first book, Internment During the Second World War: A Comparative Study of Great Britain and the USA, was published in 2017. She has appeared on BBC TV and radio, Sky News, and has written articles that have appeared in Newsweek and The Independent.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Introduction: The Lives and Legacies of David Cesarani.- David Cesarani: A Historian with Breadth, Depth, and the Flair of a Raconteur.- Minorities and Nationalisms.- Zionism and the British Labour Party.- History, Politics, and Nationalism in Ireland and Israel: Legacies of 1922 and 1948.- Remembering the Internment of 'enemy aliens' during the Second World War on the Isle of Man, and in Australia and Canada.- Perspectives on the Holocaust.- The Decision to Exterminate the Jews of Europe.- The 1940 “Easter Pogrom” in Warsaw from the Perspective of the Jewish Witnesses.- The Ideologue as Genocidaire: Alfred Rosenberg and the Murder of the Jews in the Soviet Union.- British and American Voluntary Organizations in Liberated Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp: An Unknown Story.- Nazi Crimes and their Legacies.- The United Kingdom War Crimes Investigation Teams after World War II.- Britain and the Eichmann Trial: An Unexamined Aspect in ‘Bystander’ Studies.- In Advance of the Broken Image: Gerhard Richter and Gustav Metzger’s Confrontations with Nazi Criminality.- Public History and Holocaust Commemoration.- Constructing a British Holocaust Narrative: A British Reading of Co-Presents to the Shoah.- David Cesarani and the creation of Imperial War Museums’ Holocaust Exhibition.- David Cesarani and UK Holocaust Memorial Day.- After the Holocaust: Facing the Nazi Past in British and International Perspective.