Holocaust Historiography in Context: Emergence, Challenges, Polemics and Achievements

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David Bankier, Dan Mikhman
Berghahn Books, 2008 - 614 pages
The modes in which historical research is being shaped have become themselves topics of research. Holocaust historiography - the documentation, depiction and analysis of one of the most horrific events in human history - is today a wide ranging academic field in which Jewish and non-Jewish scholars throughout the world are active. But how did this historiography, especially its Jewish aspect, emerge and by what factors was it shaped? This volume examines the very beginnings of the effort to apply scholarly standards to the understanding of the Holocaust - when World War II was still raging and immediately after it had ended.
 

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Introduction
9
The Development of Holocaust Research A Personal
25
Mutual
67
Philip Friedman and the Beginning of Holocaust Studies
83
The Documentation Project in
103
History Writing as a Jewish Response
135
A Forgotten Outsider Among Holocaust Scholars
167
Abel Herzberg Jacques Presser and
207
Some Peculiarities of British Historical
339
The Paradoxes of Dutch History Historiography of
355
Two Separate Issues? Historiography of World War II and
379
Some Remarks
403
The West The Yishuv and the Rescue Debate Regarding
421
The Problematic Nature
437
FirstHand Accounts and Awareness of the Fate of the Jews under
461
The Place of
475

The Jewish
227
The Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center CDJC
245
Discord
255
The CDEC and its Impact on Italian
293
The Leo Baeck Institute and GermanJewish Historiography
305
Agents of the Final Solution Perpetration in Historical
327
David Boder and Writing the History
497
The Different Narratives
519
Jewish Witnesses in War Crimes Trials of the Postwar Era
539
A Lost Voice? Jewish Witnesses in Nazi Trials in West Germany
555
List of Contributors
589
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À propos de l'auteur (2008)

Dan Michmanis Professor of Modern Jewish History and Chair of the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan; and serves also as Chief Historian at the Yad Vashem International Institute of Holocaust Research.David Bankieris the Incumbent of the John Najmann Chair of Holocaust Studies and the Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research - Yad Vashem.

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