Memory, history, and the extermination of the Jews of Europe / Saul Friedlander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedländer, Saul, 1932-

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Historiography.

National socialism--Historiography.

National socialism.

Germany--History--1933-1945--Historiography.

Germany.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 142 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [1993]

Summary:

Throughout these essays Saul Friedlander is concerned about the relationship between memory and history, the stages in the evolution of attitudes toward the Nazi epoch and the Shoah in both German and Jewish memory, and the gap between individual memory and the collective re-elaboration of the past. "The passage from memory to history, " he states, "the changing attitudes toward this epoch, the waning of individual memory lead of necessity (with or without the impact of decisive political normalization) to the expulsion of terror from the presence of those years." The book includes chapters on Nazism, the German struggles with memory, the new German debates about the "final solution, " Israeli memory of the Shoah and the Shoah in present historical consciousness, the genesis and various interpretations of the "final solution, " the extermination of the Jews in Europe, the historicization of National Socialism, and the views of Martin Broszat. Consideration is given to the implications of German reunification.

Contents:

German struggles with memory

A conflict of memories? The New German debates about the "Final solution"

The Shoah in present historical consciousness

Reflections on the historicization of National Socialism

Martin Broszat and the historicization of National Socialism

The "Final Solution": on the unease in historical interpretation

Trauma and transference.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0253324831

OCLC:

27149954