Holocaust Scholarship [electronic resource] : Personal Trajectories and Professional Interpretations /
Browning, Christopher.
Marrus, Michael R.editor.
Shain, Milton.editor.
Browning, Christopher R.editor.
Heschel, Susannah.editor.
Leading international Holocaust scholars reflect upon their personal experiences and professional trajectories over many decades of immersion in the field. Changes are examined within the context of individual odysseys, including shifting cultural milieus and robust academic conflicts.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Leading international Holocaust scholars reflect upon their personal experiences and professional trajectories over many decades of immersion in the field. Changes are examined within the context of individual odysseys, including shifting cultural milieus and robust academic conflicts.
Autobiography, experience and the writing of history / Steven E. Aschheim -- From Johannesburg to Warsaw: an ideological journey / Antony Polonsky -- The personal contexts of a Holocaust historian: war, politics, trials, and professional rivalry; Christopher R. Browning -- Autobiographical reflections on writing history, the Holocaust, and hairdressing / David Cesarani -- On the Holocaust and comparative history / Steven T. Katz -- Historiosophy as a response to catastrophe: studying Nazi Christians as a Jew / Susannah Heschel -- Pastors and professors: assessing complicity and unfolding complexity / Robert P. Ericksen -- Protestants, Catholics, Mennonites, and Jews: identities and institutions in Holocaust studies / Doris l. Bergen -- My wrestling with the Holocaust / Karl A. Schleunes -- "Lessons" of the Holocaust and the ceaseless, discordant search for meaning / Michael R. Marrus -- Apartheid and the herrenvolk idea / David Welsh -- Echoes of Nazi antisemitism in South Africa during the 1930s and 1940s / Milton Shain.
Judaism.
World War, 1939-1945.
Africa, Sub-Saharan—History.
Social history.
Military history.
Judaism.
History of World War II and the Holocaust.
History of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Social History.
History of Military.