Holocaust scholarship : personal trajectories and professional interpretations / [edited by] Christopher R. Browning, Susannah Heschel, Michael R. Marrus, Milton Shain.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Browning, Christopher, editor.

Heschel, Susannah, editor.

Marrus, Michael Robert, editor.

Shain, Milton, editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

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

Historiography.

Physical Description:

xiii, 258 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

This collection of essays arises from a conference held at the University of Cape Town under the auspices of the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research. Leading international Holocaust scholars met to reflect on the ways their personal experiences influenced their professional trajectories over many decades of immersion in studies of the Holocaust. Participants examined changes and developments in the field within the context of their own personal odysseys, including shifting cultural milieus and robust academic conflicts. Meeting in South Africa provided a special ambience as the country had emerged only two decades earlier from a race-based system defined by the United Nations as a crime against humanity. The massive corpus of scholarly engagement with the Holocaust - with reverberations across the globe - has ensured that its study today is paradigmatic for scholars exploring genocide, as well as perpetrators and victims of antisemitism, racism, and the Second World War. Book jacket.

Contents:

Autobiography, experience and the writing of history / Steven E. Aschheim

From Johannesburg to Warsaw: an ideological journey / Antony Polonsky

The personal contexts of a Holocaust historian: war, politics, trials, and professional rivalry; Christopher R. Browning

Autobiographical reflections on writing history, the Holocaust, and hairdressing / David Cesarani

On the Holocaust and comparative history / Steven T. Katz

Historiosophy as a response to catastrophe: studying Nazi Christians as a Jew / Susannah Heschel

Pastors and professors: assessing complicity and unfolding complexity / Robert P. Ericksen

Protestants, Catholics, Mennonites, and Jews: identities and institutions in Holocaust studies / Doris l. Bergen

My wrestling with the Holocaust / Karl A. Schleunes

"Lessons" of the Holocaust and the ceaseless, discordant search for meaning / Michael R. Marrus

Apartheid and the herrenvolk idea / David Welsh

Echoes of Nazi antisemitism in South Africa during the 1930s and 1940s / Milton Shain.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1137514183

9781137514189

OCLC:

902854201

Publisher Number:

99963965828