Lessons and Legacies X : Back to the Sources: Reexamining Perpetrators, Victims, and Bystanders / edited and with an introduction by Sara R. Horowitz.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Holocaust Educational Foundation (United States)

Horowitz, Sara R., 1951-

Conference Name:

Lessons & Legacies Conference (10th : 2008 : Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence--Congresses.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

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

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

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 231 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2012.

Summary:

The essays in the tenth volume of Lessons and Legacies offer a sense of the issues that run through current thinking about the Holocaust and ideas about the different ways we engage with a broad range of sources. New sources ranging from traditional archival finds to microhistories accessible via newer technology infuse Holocaust research. At the same time, the fields of Holocaust research and Jewish studies have an increasing impact upon other disciplines. Overall, the editor and writers find that the integration of insights, methodologies, critiques, and questions from psychology, literary studies, visual arts, and other fields with those of history, political science, and other social sciences sharpens the tools of analysis. The essays in this volume testify to the evolution of the field of Holocaust studies and also indicate a future direction.

Contents:

Foreword / Theodore Zev Weiss

Introduction / Sara R. Horowitz

I. Wartime sources of interpretation

Another look at Hitler and the beginning of the Holocaust / Gerhard L. Weinberg

Police force under occupation: Serbian State Guard and volunteers' corps in the Holocaust / Ana Antic

Jewish mystical thought (Kabbalah) through the Holocaust / Gershon Greenberg

"Realism"? the place of images in Holocaust studies / Paul B. Jaskot

II. Rethinking testimony

Collaborative interpretation of survivors' accounts: a radical challenge to conventional practice / Henry Greenspan

Incapable of revealing the event: Elie Wiesel and the reading of memoir-writing / Gary Weissman

III. Victimhood, identity, practice

Political upheaval and shifting identities: Holocaust survivors in the Soviet Occupied Zone of Germany, 1945-1949 / Cora Granata

The aftermath and after: memories of child survivors of the Holocaust / Joanna Beata Michlic

From Nuremberg to Kigali: on the necessity and impossibility of post-atrocity justice / Valerie Hebert

IV. Art

Reflections, traditions, and representations from a painting studio / Matthew Girson.

Notes:

"The contents of this volume, Lessons and Legacies X, emerged from presentations at the Lessons and Legacies Conference held at Northwestern University in November 2008"--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8101-3118-8

OCLC:

927384565