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Holocaust scholarship : personal trajectories and professional interpretations / Christopher R. Browning, Susannah Heschel, Michael R. Marrus, Milton Shain.
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Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Browning, Christopher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography.
- Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- BASINGSTOKE : PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2015.
- Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781137514196
- 1137514191
- Publisher Number:
- 99984098569
- 99963965828
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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