Abstract
In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as important for understanding the Holocaust—and, by extension, any past event—as is archival research. It aims to go beyond the dominant paradigm of political history and describe the emergence of methods now being used to reconstruct the past in the context of Holocaust historiography
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Holocaust and Historical Methodology
Dan Stone
PART I: MEMORY AND CULTURE IN THE THIRD REICH
Chapter 1.A World Without Jews: Interpreting the Holocaust
Alon Confino
Chapter 2.Holocaust Historiography and Cultural History
Dan Stone
Chapter 3.The Invisible Crime: Nazi Politics of Memory and Postwar Representations of the Holocaust
Dirk Rupnow
Chapter 4.The History of the Jews in the Ghettos: A Cultural Perspective
Amos Goldberg
Chapter 5.National Socialism, Holocaust and Ecology
Boaz Neumann
PART II: TESTIMONY AND COMMEMORATION
Chapter 6.Bearing Witness: Theological Roots of a New Secular Morality
Samuel Moyn
Chapter 7.Transcending History? Methodological Problems in Holocaust Testimony
Zoë Waxman
Chapter 8.Studying the Holocaust: Is History Commemoration?
Doris L. Bergen
PART III: ANOTHER LOOK AT A CLASSIC OF HOLOCAUST HISTORIOGRAPHY
Chapter 9.An Integrated History of the Holocaust: Some Methodological Challenges
Saul Friedländer
Chapter 10.Truth and Circumstance: What (If Anything) Can Be Properly Said about the Holocaust?
Hayden White
Chapter 11.Modernist Holocaust Historiography: A Dialogue between Saul Friedländer and Hayden White
Wulf Kansteiner
PART IV: THE HOLOCAUST IN THE WORLD
Chapter 12.The Holocaust and European History
Donald Bloxham
Chapter 13.Fascism and the Holocaust
Federico Finchelstein
Chapter 14.The Holocaust and World History: Raphael Lemkin and Comparative Methodology
A. Dirk Moses
Select Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Holocaust and Historical Methodology
Dan Stone
PART I: MEMORY AND CULTURE IN THE THIRD REICH
Chapter 1.A World Without Jews: Interpreting the Holocaust
Alon Confino
Chapter 2.Holocaust Historiography and Cultural History
Dan Stone
Chapter 3.The Invisible Crime: Nazi Politics of Memory and Postwar Representations of the Holocaust
Dirk Rupnow
Chapter 4.The History of the Jews in the Ghettos: A Cultural Perspective
Amos Goldberg
Chapter 5.National Socialism, Holocaust and Ecology
Boaz Neumann
PART II: TESTIMONY AND COMMEMORATION
Chapter 6.Bearing Witness: Theological Roots of a New Secular Morality
Samuel Moyn
Chapter 7.Transcending History? Methodological Problems in Holocaust Testimony
Zoë Waxman
Chapter 8.Studying the Holocaust: Is History Commemoration?
Doris L. Bergen
PART III: ANOTHER LOOK AT A CLASSIC OF HOLOCAUST HISTORIOGRAPHY
Chapter 9.An Integrated History of the Holocaust: Some Methodological Challenges
Saul Friedländer
Chapter 10.Truth and Circumstance: What (If Anything) Can Be Properly Said about the Holocaust?
Hayden White
Chapter 11.Modernist Holocaust Historiography: A Dialogue between Saul Friedländer and Hayden White
Wulf Kansteiner
PART IV: THE HOLOCAUST IN THE WORLD
Chapter 12.The Holocaust and European History
Donald Bloxham
Chapter 13.Fascism and the Holocaust
Federico Finchelstein
Chapter 14.The Holocaust and World History: Raphael Lemkin and Comparative Methodology
A. Dirk Moses
Select Bibliography
Contributors
Index