Holocaust historiography in context
Subtitle: emergence, challenges, polemics and achievements
By: edited by David Bankier and Dan Michman.
Contributors: Bankier, David.; Mikhman, Dan.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 614
ISBN-13: 9789653083264
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Development of Holocaust Research : A Personal Overview / Raul Hilberg; title: Is There an "Israeli School" of Holocaust Research? / Dan Michman; title: Holocaust Research and Jewish Historiography : Mutual Influences / David Engel; title: Part II: Jewish Research : Beginnings; title: Philip Friedman and the Beginning of Holocaust Studies / Roni Stauber; title: "Everyone Can Hold a Pen": The Documentation Project in the DP Camps in Germany / Ada Schein; title: Chroniclers of Catastrophe: History Writing as a Jewish Response to Persecution Before and After the Holocaust / Laura Jockusch; title: Joseph Wulf: A Forgotten Outsider Among Holocaust Scholars / Nicolas Berg; title: Survivors as Historians: Abel Herzberg, Jacques Presser and Loe de Jong on the Nazi Persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands / Conny Kristel; title: Part III: The Emergence of Jewish Research Centers; title: The Emergence of Holocaust Research in Poland: The Jewish Historical Commission and the Jewish Historical Institute (ZIH), 1944-1989 / Feliks Tych; title: The Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center (CDJC) and Holocaust Research in France, 1945-1970 / Georges Bensoussan; title: Setting the Agenda of Holocaust Research: Discord at Yad Vashem in the 1950s / Boaz Cohen; title: Fighting Oblivion: The CDEC and its Impact on Italian Holocaust Historiography / Iael Nidam-Orvieto; title: The Leo Baeck Institute and German-Jewish Historiography on the Holocaust / Guy Miron; title: Part IV: Schools and Approaches Within National Contexts; title: Agents of the Final Solution : Perpetration in Historical Perspective / Jurgen Matthaus; title: From Bullock to Kershaw: Some Peculiarities of British Historical Writing About the Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder of the Jews / David Cesarani; title: The Paradoxes of Dutch History : Historiography of the Holocaust in the Netherlands / Ido de Haan; title: Part V: Case and Context: The Holocaust and World War II; title: Two Separate Issues? Historiography of World War II and the Holocaust / Gerhard L. Weinberg; title: On my Book The Origins of the Final Solution : Some Remarks on its Background and on its Major Conclusions / Christopher Browning; title: The West, The Yishuv, and the Rescue Debate Regarding Slovakia and Hungary : Old and New Historiography / Shlomo Aronson; title: Part VI: Testimonies : Shaping and Significance; title: First Testimonies on the Holocaust : The Problematic Nature of Conveying and Absorbing them, and the Reaction in the Yishuv / Dina Porat; title: First-Hand Accounts and Awareness of the Fate of the Jews under the Nazis : The Case of Hungarian Labor Service Men / Robert Rozett; title: "A Jewish Historical Commission in Budapest": The Place of the National Relief Committee for Deportees in Hungary [DEGOB] Among the Other Large-Scale Historical-Memorial Projects of She'erit Hapletah After the Holocaust (1945-1948) / Rita Horvdth; title: Evidence of Trauma: David Boder and Writing the History of Holocaust Testimony / Alan Rosen; title: The Community and the Individual: The Different Narratives of Early and Late Testimonies and Their Significance for Historians / Dalia Ofer; title: Part VII: Jewish Testimonies in the Trials of War Criminals; title: Jewish Witnesses in War Crimes Trials of the Postwar Era / Donald Bloxham; title: A Lost Voice? Jewish Witnesses in Nazi Trials in West Germany / Rebecca Wittmann; title: As Heard by the Witnesses, the Public, and the Judges : Three Variations on the Testimony in the Eichmann Trial / Hanna Yablonka.