German Jews in the Era of the "Final Solution" : Essays on Jewish and Universal History / Otto Dov Kulka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kulka, Otto Dov, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.

Jews.

Antisemitism--Germany--History--20th century.

Antisemitism.

Jews--Persecutions--Germany.

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

National socialism--Germany.

National socialism.

Germany--Ethnic relations--History.

Germany.

Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 358 pages) : Illustrations

Place of Publication:

München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

These essays, written in the course of half a century of research and thought on German and Jewish history, deal with the uniqueness of a phenomenon in its historical and philosophical context. Applying the "classical" empirical tools to this unprecedented historical chapter, Kulka strives to incorporate it into the continuum of Jewish and universal history. At the same time he endeavors to fathom the meaning of the ideologically motivated mass murder and incalculable suffering. The author presents a multifaceted, integrative history, encompassing the German society, its attitudes toward the Jews and toward the anti-Jewish policy of the Nazi regime; as well as the Jewish society, its self-perception and its leadership.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Editorial Note

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Illustrations

Reflections on Jewish Studies, the Jerusalem School and the Research on the Era of the "Final Solution"

1. German Jewry under the National Socialism in Historical Perspective

2. History and Historical Consciousness. Similarities and Dissimilarities in the History of German and Czech Jews 1918-1945

3. Critique of Judaism in European Thought. On the Historical Meaning of Modern Antisemitism

4. Richard Wagner and the Origins of the Redemptive Antisemitism

5. Uniqueness in Context. Review of Ian Kershaw, To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949

6. Popular Opinion in Nazi Germany and the "Jewish Question"

7. German Population in Nazi Germany as a Factor in the Policy of the "Solution of the Jewish Question": The Nuremberg Laws and the Reichskristallnacht

8. German Population and the "Solution of the Jewish Question" at the Time of the Wannsee Conference

9. Jewish Society in Germany as Reflected in Secret Nazi Reports on Popular Opinion 1933-1943

10. The Reichsvereinigung and the Fate of the Jews. Continuity or Discontinuity in German- Jewish History in the Third Reich

11. Ghetto in an Annihilation Camp. Jewish Social History in the Years of the "Final Solution" and its Ultimate Limits

12. Major Trends and Tendencies in German Historiography on National Socialism and the "Final Solution" 1924-1984

13. Singularity and its Relativization. Changing Views in German Historiography on National Socialism and the "Final Solution"

14. The Historikerstreit from a Personal Retrospective. On the "Case Nolte" and his Generation

15. In Search of History and Memory. Excerpts from Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death

Annotated References

Index of Names and Places

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110667752

3110667754

9783110671438

3110671433

OCLC:

1135571410