The Historiography of the Holocaust

D. Stone

Springer, Jan 20, 2004 - History - 573 pages

This collection of essays by leading scholars in their fields provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Holocaust historiography available. Covering both long-established historical disputes as well as research questions and methodologies that have developed in the last decade's massive growth in Holocaust Studies, this collection will be of enormous benefit to students and scholars alike.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• 1 German or Nazi Antisemitism?: 9
• 2 Hitler and the Third Reich: 24
• 3 Expropriation and Expulsion: 52
• 4 Ghettoization: 65
• 5 War Occupation and the Holocaust in Poland: 88
• 6 Local Collaboration in the Holocaust in Eastern Europe: 120
• An Appraisal of the Historical Arguments: 141
• 8 The DecisionMaking Process: 173
• 9 Historiography and the Perpetrators of the Holocaust: 197
• 10 The Topography of Genocide: 216
• In Search of a Historiography: 253
• 12 The Holocaust and the Soviet Union: 276
• 13 The German Churches and the Holocaust: 296
• 14 Jewish Leadership in Extremis: 319
• 15 Jewish Resistance: 341
• 16 Gender and the Family: 364
• A Reevaluation and Overview: 383
• the Holocaust in the Courtroom: 397
• 19 The Holocaust under Communism: 420
• 20 Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial in PostCommunist Eastern Europe: 440
• 21 PostHolocaust Philosophy: 469
• 22 Testimony and Representation: 487
• 23 Memory Memorials and Museums: 508
• 24 The Holocaust and Genocide: 533
• Index: 556

About the author

FRANK BAJOHR Lecturer at the Department of History, Universität Hamburg, Germany DONALD BLOXHAM Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Edinburgh, UK CHRISTOPHER R. BROWNING Frank Porter Graham Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA ANDY CHARLESWORTH Reader in Human Geography, University of Gloucestershire, UK JOSH COHEN Lecturer in English at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK TIM COLE Lecturer, University of Bristol, UK MARTIN DEAN Applied Research Scholar at the Centre for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, USA ROBERT ERICKSEN Lecturer, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington DC, USA THOMAS C. FOX Professor of German, Department of Modern Languages and Classics, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA IAN HANCOCK Lecturer in Romani Studies, University of Texas, Austin, USA ODED HEILBRONNER Lecturer at the Koebner Centre for German History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel SUSANNAH HESCHEL Eli Black Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College, UK JOHN KLIER Corob Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London, UK CHRIS KOBRAK Associate Professor of Finance, ESCP-EAP, European School of Management, UK TONY KUSHNER Marcus Sieff Professor of Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations in the Department of History, University of Southampton, UK FLORIN LOBONT Senior Research Associate, Institute for Psychological Studies and Research, West University Timisoara, Romania, and Visiting Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK JÜRGEN MATTHÄUS Historian, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC, USA DAN MICHMAN Professor of Modern Jewish History and Chairman of the Institutes of Holocaust Research and of Research on Diaspora Jewry in Modern Times, Bar-Ilan University, Israel A. DIRK MOSES Lecturer in Late Modern European History, University of Sydney, Australia JEREMY NOAKES Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Exeter, UK LISA PINE Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, South Bank University, London, UK DIETER POHL Research Fellow at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich, Germany ROBERT ROZETT Director of the Library, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel ANDREA H. SCHNEIDER Author, and member of the editorial staff for Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte ZOË WAXMAN Lecturer in Modern European and British History, Mansfield College, Oxford, UK

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Historiography of the Holocaust
• Editor: D. Stone
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Springer, 2004
• ISBN: 0230524508, 9780230524507
• Length: 573 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / General; History / General; History / Historiography; History / Modern / General; History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General; Literary Criticism / General; Religion / Judaism / General