The Holocaust and historical methodology /

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 impo...

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Other Authors: Stone, Dan, 1971- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
Series:Making sense of history ; v. 16.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • The Holocaust and historical methodology / Dan Stone
  • A world without Jews: interpreting the Holocaust / Alon Confino
  • Holocaust historiography and cultural history / Dan Stone
  • The invisible crime: Nazi politics of memory and postwar representations of the Holocaust / Dirk Rupnow
  • The history of the Jews in the ghettos: a cultural perspective / Amos Goldberg
  • National Socialism, Holocaust, and ecology / Boaz Neumann
  • Bearing witness: theological roots of a new secular morality / Samuel Moyn
  • Transcending history? Methodological problems in Holocaust testimony / Zoe Waxman
  • Studying the Holocaust: is history commemoration? / Doris L. Bergen
  • An integrated history of the Holocaust: some methodological challenges / Saul Friedlander
  • Truth and circumstance: what (if anything) can be properly said about the Holocaust? / Hayden White
  • Modernist Holocaust historiography: a dialogue between Saul Friedlander and Hayden White / Wulf Kansteiner
  • The Holocaust and European history / Donald Bloxham
  • Fascism and the Holocaust / Federico Finchelstein
  • The Holocaust and world history: Raphael Lemkin and comparative methodology / A. Dirk Moses.