Jan Burzlaff
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 897267 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jan Burzlaff |
| NOMBRES | Jan |
| APELLIDO | Burzlaff |
| FIRMA | BURZLAFF J |
| AFILIACIONES | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7633-4099 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Anatomy of Soviet and Nazi Power
This lead article introduces the Crucibles of Power forum, highlighting Michael David-Fox’s groundbreaking study of Smolensk under Stalinist and Nazi rule. Crucibles of Power offers a model social history of occupation, weaving together Soviet and German sources, survivor testimonies, and decades of scholarship to dismantle binary frameworks of totalitarian theory. By reframing power as a fractured and negotiated process, David-Fox reveals how ov…
Slowness is not a bug
Europe as Scaffolding
This Spotlight argues that Holocaust historiography stands at a critical impasse. Decades of groundbreaking research have produced an era of unprecedented empirical richness – but also profound fragmentation: a tension masterfully documented in The Cambridge History of the Holocaust (2025). As the field has matured – dethroning German exceptionalism, re-centring victim experiences and expanding its temporal and methodological horizons – the frame…
What is typhus compared to the Gestapo!’
This article rethinks social relations in Vichy France through the lens of social reactivity—the full spectrum of behaviours that either accelerated or impeded persecution, from fleeting harm and aid to opportunism and reluctant solidarity. Using the 1957 testimony of Mrs J. Moda, a German Jewish refugee who survived with her husband in southern France, the article challenges fixed moral categories of resistance, rescue, collaboration and indiffe…
Fragments, not prompts
Intent, Process, Perceptions
At the intersection of Holocaust and World War II studies, a systematic and comparative analysis of Jews’ behaviors in Western Europe remains underexplored. This brief article proposes a methodological framework for studying choices between 1940 and 1945, focusing on the experiences of two Jewish women who survived in Vichy France. Drawing on concepts from French cultural history, I argue for a shift from “survival” as an outcome to “surviving” a…
Anatomy of Fear
Neither Perpetrators nor Victims
Review of: Mary Fulbrook, Bystander Society: Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2023). 488 pp. (hardback) USD 34.95 ISBN: 978-0-197-69171-7
Hersh Smolar, Le Ghetto de Minsk
Le Ghetto de Minsk de Hersh Smolar, résistant et cadre communiste du XXe siècle, est bien plus qu’une puissante œuvre et un récit personnel de la Shoah en Biélorussie, désormais accessible au public français. La publication en français de son témoignage de 1946 se situe au terme d’un long processus de reconnaissance des ego-documents — les historiens de la guerre ont enfin commencé à aborder plus systématiquement les perspectives juives. Vu la co…
Empire of Destruction
Journal Article Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing Alex J. Kay Get access Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing, Alex J Kay (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021), 400 pp., hardcover $32.50. Jan Burzlaff Jan Burzlaff Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7633-4099 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust an…
Security, genocide, and the holocaust
Dirk Moses's 2021 The Problems of Genocide has generated some debates — but it should also be an essential reference for Holocaust scholars. Moving beyond polemics and the black-and-white debates about the Holocaust's uniqueness, this forum invites a critical assessment of the book from three disciplines – international law, philosophy, and history. The forum seeks to begin erasing disciplinary boundaries within Holocaust studies. Not only in thi…
Silence and Small Gestures
Through a systematic analysis of 500 Jewish testimonies, this article seeks to expand the social and cultural history of the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. Shifting the focus away from heated debates about ‘knowledge’ of the Holocaust towards wartime social interactions, it argues that prevailing notions of ‘resistance/collaboration’ and ‘rescue/betrayal’ do not fully account for the civilian obstruction of Nazi policies and many small gestures of su…
Evgeny Finkel, Ordinary Jews. Choice and Survival During the Holocaust
La Shoah et sa mémoire nous hantent. Pourtant, parmi le déferlement massif de livres, d’expositions et de films pour lesquels une vue d’ensemble n’est même plus maîtrisable pour un spécialiste, certaines études se démarquent. Depuis une bonne dizaine d’années, la voix des victimes juives a émergé, même si la voix des femmes et des enfants fait encore parfois défaut. La plupart des récits se contentent cependant de dépeindre les expériences des su…
In the Shadow of the Gas Chambers
The Nazis’ killing center at Bełżec (1941–1944) poses a fundamental challenge to Holocaust scholars. How can we write the history of a place that has been obliterated and whose records have been destroyed? Twelve untapped non-Jewish video testimonies provide new insights into aspects of daily life around Bełżec. This essay argues that strong social ties dictated who lived and died in the shadow of the gas chambers. The least well-known killing ce…
Élodie Lecuppre-Desjardin, Le Royaume inachevé des ducs de Bourgogne (XIe-XVe siècles)
Si Italo Calvino avait, de son vivant, mis la main sur le récent livre d’Élodie Lecuppre-Desjardin, il l’aurait sans aucun doute qualifié de classique. Pour parler avec l’écrivain italien, Le Royaume inachevé devient ainsi un livre dont les discussions s’annoncent pour longtemps inachevées. En se proposant de relire la société bourguignonne entre 1369 et 1477 en termes d’expérience politique, la médiéviste de Lille 3 pose ici bien davantage que l…
Vers des histoires transnationales de la Shoah
This synthesis examines the historiography of the Holocaust and offers new interpretations of the complex interactions between Nazi Germany, local populations, and Jews in Eastern Europe between 1939 and 1945. In opposition to an increasingly forceful revisionist approach taking hold in Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, recent studies, primarily produced by the English-speaking world, have rightfully turned the spotlight away from Germans and…
The Holocaust and Slavery? Working Towards A Comparative History of Genocide and Mass Violence
Exactly twenty-five years after the first volume of his global comparative history of the Holocaust, Steven T. Katz has now published the second volume on New World slavery. 1 This comparison intri
Confronting the Communal Grave
This historiographical review focuses on the complex interactions between Nazi Germany, local populations, and east European Jews during the Holocaust. Braving fierce historical revisionism in eastern Europe and the Baltic states, recent studies have shifted the spotlight from Germans to Poles, Ukrainians, Russians, Lithuanians, and other ethnicities. As a result, the analytic categories with which most historians still work – notably ‘perpetrato…
Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri, Médiéval et militant. Penser le contemporain à travers le Moyen Âge
Les études sur la réception du Moyen Âge et le médiévalisme, entendu comme l'ensemble des références au Moyen Âge dans le monde contemporain, sont tout sauf récentes, à en juger l’étendue bibliographique établie par Richard Utz. Pourtant, le présent ouvrage écrit par Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri, médiéviste spécialiste du clergé romain à l'université d'Urbino, est en tout point de vue fondamental. L'étude des images du Moyen Âge devient, sur 31…
Confronting the Communal Grave
This historiographical review focuses on the complex interactions between Nazi Germany, local populations, and east European Jews during the Holocaust. Braving fierce historical revisionism in eastern Europe and the Baltic states, recent studies have shifted the spotlight from Germans to Poles, Ukrainians, Russians, Lithuanians, and other ethnicities. As a result, the analytic categories with which most historians still work – notably ‘perpetrato…
In the Shadow of the Gas Chambers
The Nazis’ killing center at Bełżec (1941–1944) poses a fundamental challenge to Holocaust scholars. How can we write the history of a place that has been obliterated and whose records have been destroyed? Twelve untapped non-Jewish video testimonies provide new insights into aspects of daily life around Bełżec. This essay argues that strong social ties dictated who lived and died in the shadow of the gas chambers. The least well-known killing ce…
Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri, Médiéval et militant. Penser le contemporain à travers le Moyen Âge
Les études sur la réception du Moyen Âge et le médiévalisme, entendu comme l'ensemble des références au Moyen Âge dans le monde contemporain, sont tout sauf récentes, à en juger l’étendue bibliographique établie par Richard Utz. Pourtant, le présent ouvrage écrit par Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri, médiéviste spécialiste du clergé romain à l'université d'Urbino, est en tout point de vue fondamental. L'étude des images du Moyen Âge devient, sur 31…
Confronting the Communal Grave
This historiographical review focuses on the complex interactions between Nazi Germany, local populations, and east European Jews during the Holocaust. Braving fierce historical revisionism in eastern Europe and the Baltic states, recent studies have shifted the spotlight from Germans to Poles, Ukrainians, Russians, Lithuanians, and other ethnicities. As a result, the analytic categories with which most historians still work – notably ‘perpetrato…
Élodie Lecuppre-Desjardin, Le Royaume inachevé des ducs de Bourgogne (XIe-XVe siècles)
Si Italo Calvino avait, de son vivant, mis la main sur le récent livre d’Élodie Lecuppre-Desjardin, il l’aurait sans aucun doute qualifié de classique. Pour parler avec l’écrivain italien, Le Royaume inachevé devient ainsi un livre dont les discussions s’annoncent pour longtemps inachevées. En se proposant de relire la société bourguignonne entre 1369 et 1477 en termes d’expérience politique, la médiéviste de Lille 3 pose ici bien davantage que l…
Vers des histoires transnationales de la Shoah
This synthesis examines the historiography of the Holocaust and offers new interpretations of the complex interactions between Nazi Germany, local populations, and Jews in Eastern Europe between 1939 and 1945. In opposition to an increasingly forceful revisionist approach taking hold in Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, recent studies, primarily produced by the English-speaking world, have rightfully turned the spotlight away from Germans and…
The Holocaust and Slavery? Working Towards A Comparative History of Genocide and Mass Violence
Exactly twenty-five years after the first volume of his global comparative history of the Holocaust, Steven T. Katz has now published the second volume on New World slavery. 1 This comparison intri
Evgeny Finkel, Ordinary Jews. Choice and Survival During the Holocaust
La Shoah et sa mémoire nous hantent. Pourtant, parmi le déferlement massif de livres, d’expositions et de films pour lesquels une vue d’ensemble n’est même plus maîtrisable pour un spécialiste, certaines études se démarquent. Depuis une bonne dizaine d’années, la voix des victimes juives a émergé, même si la voix des femmes et des enfants fait encore parfois défaut. La plupart des récits se contentent cependant de dépeindre les expériences des su…
In the Shadow of the Gas Chambers
The Nazis’ killing center at Bełżec (1941–1944) poses a fundamental challenge to Holocaust scholars. How can we write the history of a place that has been obliterated and whose records have been destroyed? Twelve untapped non-Jewish video testimonies provide new insights into aspects of daily life around Bełżec. This essay argues that strong social ties dictated who lived and died in the shadow of the gas chambers. The least well-known killing ce…
Security, genocide, and the holocaust
Dirk Moses's 2021 The Problems of Genocide has generated some debates — but it should also be an essential reference for Holocaust scholars. Moving beyond polemics and the black-and-white debates about the Holocaust's uniqueness, this forum invites a critical assessment of the book from three disciplines – international law, philosophy, and history. The forum seeks to begin erasing disciplinary boundaries within Holocaust studies. Not only in thi…
Silence and Small Gestures
Through a systematic analysis of 500 Jewish testimonies, this article seeks to expand the social and cultural history of the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. Shifting the focus away from heated debates about ‘knowledge’ of the Holocaust towards wartime social interactions, it argues that prevailing notions of ‘resistance/collaboration’ and ‘rescue/betrayal’ do not fully account for the civilian obstruction of Nazi policies and many small gestures of su…
Hersh Smolar, Le Ghetto de Minsk
Le Ghetto de Minsk de Hersh Smolar, résistant et cadre communiste du XXe siècle, est bien plus qu’une puissante œuvre et un récit personnel de la Shoah en Biélorussie, désormais accessible au public français. La publication en français de son témoignage de 1946 se situe au terme d’un long processus de reconnaissance des ego-documents — les historiens de la guerre ont enfin commencé à aborder plus systématiquement les perspectives juives. Vu la co…
Empire of Destruction
Journal Article Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing Alex J. Kay Get access Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing, Alex J Kay (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021), 400 pp., hardcover $32.50. Jan Burzlaff Jan Burzlaff Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7633-4099 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust an…
Neither Perpetrators nor Victims
Review of: Mary Fulbrook, Bystander Society: Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2023). 488 pp. (hardback) USD 34.95 ISBN: 978-0-197-69171-7
What is typhus compared to the Gestapo!’
This article rethinks social relations in Vichy France through the lens of social reactivity—the full spectrum of behaviours that either accelerated or impeded persecution, from fleeting harm and aid to opportunism and reluctant solidarity. Using the 1957 testimony of Mrs J. Moda, a German Jewish refugee who survived with her husband in southern France, the article challenges fixed moral categories of resistance, rescue, collaboration and indiffe…
Fragments, not prompts
Intent, Process, Perceptions
At the intersection of Holocaust and World War II studies, a systematic and comparative analysis of Jews’ behaviors in Western Europe remains underexplored. This brief article proposes a methodological framework for studying choices between 1940 and 1945, focusing on the experiences of two Jewish women who survived in Vichy France. Drawing on concepts from French cultural history, I argue for a shift from “survival” as an outcome to “surviving” a…
Anatomy of Fear
The Anatomy of Soviet and Nazi Power
This lead article introduces the Crucibles of Power forum, highlighting Michael David-Fox’s groundbreaking study of Smolensk under Stalinist and Nazi rule. Crucibles of Power offers a model social history of occupation, weaving together Soviet and German sources, survivor testimonies, and decades of scholarship to dismantle binary frameworks of totalitarian theory. By reframing power as a fractured and negotiated process, David-Fox reveals how ov…
Slowness is not a bug
Europe as Scaffolding
This Spotlight argues that Holocaust historiography stands at a critical impasse. Decades of groundbreaking research have produced an era of unprecedented empirical richness – but also profound fragmentation: a tension masterfully documented in The Cambridge History of the Holocaust (2025). As the field has matured – dethroning German exceptionalism, re-centring victim experiences and expanding its temporal and methodological horizons – the frame…
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