Marrus / Shain / Browning Holocaust Scholarship

Personal Trajectories and Professional Interpretations
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-51419-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, eBook

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marrus, Michael R.

Shain, Milton

Browning, Christopher R.

Heschel, Susannah

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Autobiography, Experience and the Writing of History; Steven E. Aschheim 2. From Johannesburg to Warsaw: An Ideological Journey; Antony Polonsky 3. The Personal Contexts of a Holocaust Historian: War, Politics, Trials, and Professional Rivalry; Christopher R. Browning 4. Autobiographical Reflections on Writing History, the Holocaust, and Hairdressing; David Cesarani 5. On the Holocaust and Comparative History; Steven T. Katz 6. Historiosophy as a Response to Catastrophe: Studying Nazi Christians as a Jew; Susannah Heschel 7. Pastors and Professors: Assessing Complicity and Unfolding Complexity; Robert P. Ericksen 8. Protestants, Catholics, Mennonites, and Jews: Identities and Institutions in Holocaust Studies; Doris L. Bergen 9. My Wrestling with the Holocaust; Karl A. Schleunes 10. ' 'Lessons ' ' of the Holocaust and the Ceaseless, Discordant Search for Meaning; Michael R. Marrus 11. Apartheid and the Herrenvolk Idea; David Welsh 12. Echoes of Nazi Antisemitism in South Africa during the 1930s and 1940s; Milton Shain

Über Autor(innen)

Steven E. Aschheim, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University, USA
David Cesarani, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Steven T. Katz, Boston University, USA
Robert P. Ericksen, Pacific Lutheran University, USA
Doris L. Bergen, University of Toronto, Canada
Karl A. Schleunes, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
David Welsh, Stellenbosch University, South Africa