A companion to the Holocaust / edited by Simone Gigliotti, Hilary Earl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gigliotti, Simone, editor.

Earl, Hilary Camille, 1963- editor.

Series:

Wiley Blackwell companions to world history.

Wiley Blackwell companions to world history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2020.

Summary:

"How we label things determines in part how we understand them. There is no name for the mass murder of European Jews in the 1940s that is not also simultaneously an interpretation. Final Solution, Holocaust, Shoah, Genocide: each of these implies a certain analysis of what happened and why. Thus the changing (and contested) names attached to the mass murder of European Jewry over the past seventy years also suggest shifts over time in how the event has been interpreted. Similarly, these names reflect a series of debates among historians about how best to analyze the destruction of Europe's Jews. Some of these debates have been more or less resolved, but many persist and seem likely to continue for the foreseeable future. It can thus hardly be the goal of this chapter to resolve these debates or to offer a definitive interpretation of the mass murder. Rather, I want to trace, in broad terms, the trajectory of Holocaust historiography from the first Jewish histories of the Holocaust to today in order to give a sense of where the historiography stands now and how it got here."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1: New Orientations and Topical Integrations

Framing chapter: Devin O. Pendas, 'Final Solution', Holocaust, Shoah, or Genocide? From Separate to Integrated Histories

Cathie Carmichael, Raphael Lemkin and Genocide before the Holocaust: ethnic and religious minorities under attack

Dan Stone, Ideologies of Race: the Construction and Suppression of Otherness in Nazi Germany

William J. Spurlin, Queering Holocaust Studies: New Frameworks for Understanding Nazi Homophobia and the Politics of Sexuality under National Socialism

Daniel Blatman, Holocaust as Genocide: Milestones in the Historiographical Discourse

Part 2: Plunder, Extermination, and Prosecution

Framing chapter: Edward B. Westermann, Old Nazis, Ordinary Men, and New Killers: Synthetic and Divergent Histories of Perpetrators

Mark Spoerer, The Nazi War Economy, the Forced Labour System, and the Murder of Jewish and Non-Jewish Workers

Waitman Wade Beorn, All the Other Neighbors: Communal Genocide in Eastern Europe

Kim Christian Priemel, War Crimes Trials, the Holocaust and Historiography, 1943-

Bianca Gaudenzi, Crimes against Culture: From Plunder to postwar Restitution Politics

Part 3: Reframing Jewish Histories

Framing chapter: Dan Michman, Characteristics of Holocaust Historiography and their Contexts since 1990: Emphases, Perceptions, Developments, Debates

David Engel, A Sustained Civilian Struggle: Rethinking Jewish Responses to the Nazi regime

Guy Miron, Ghettos and Ghettoization: History and Historiography

Martin C. Dean, Survivors of the Holocaust within the Nazi Universe of Camps

Natalia Aleksiun, Social Networks of Support: Trajectories of Escape, Rescue, and Survival

Joanna B. Michlic, A Young Person's War: the Disrupted Lives of Children and Youth

Elisabeth Gallas and Laura Jockusch, Anything But Silent: Jewish Responses to the Holocaust in the Aftermath of World War II

Part 4: Local, mobile and transnational Holocausts

Framing chapter: Tim Cole, Geographies of the Holocaust

Gerhard L. Weinberg, The Global 'Final Solution' and Nazi Imperialism

Susanne Heim, Refugees' Routes: Emigration, Resettlement, andTransmigration

David A. Messenger, The Geo-politics of Neutrality: Diplomacy, Refuge and Rescue during the Holocaust

Alejandro Baer and Pedro Correa, Spain and the Holocaust: Contested Past, Contested Present

Esther Webman, Contesting the "Zionist" Narrative: Arab Responses to the Holocaust

Aomar Boum, Re-drawing Holocaust Geographies: A Cartography of Vichy and Nazi Reach into North Africa

Part 5: Witnessing in dialogue: testifiers, readers and viewers

Framing chapter: Alan Rosen, The Holocaust Witness: Wartime and Postwar Voices

Monika J. Flaschka, Sexual Violence: Recovering a Suppressed History

Jonathan Druker, Ethical Grey Zones: On Coercion and Complicity in the Concentration Camp and Beyond

Carol Zemel, Holocaust Photography and the Challenge of the Visual

Nicholas Chare, Holocaust Memory in a Post-Survivor World: Bearing Lasting Witness

Noah Shenker, Post Memory: Digital Testimony and the Future of Witnessing

Part 6: Human rights and visual culture

Framing chapter: Valerie Hébert, The Problem of Human Rights after the Holocaust

David B. MacDonald, Indigenous Genocide and Perceptions of the Holocaust in Canada

Avril Alba, Lessons from History? The Future of Holocaust Education

Amanda F. Grzyb, The Changing Landscape of Holocaust Memorialization in Poland

Meghan Lundrigan, #Holocaust #Auschwitz: Performing Holocaust Memory on Social Media

Daniel H. Magilow, Contemporary Holocaust Film Beyond MimeticImperatives.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118970508

1118970500

9781118970515

1118970519

9781118970492

1118970497

OCLC:

1137736276