Francis R Nicosia

Biographic Data

ID1031547
NAMEFrancis R Nicosia
GIVEN NAMESFrancis R
FAMILY NAMENicosia
SIGNATURENICOSIA F R
AFFILIATIONSSaint Michael's College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS14
AUTHOR COUNT36
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX3

  • Beyond "Ordinary Men": Christopher R. Browning and Holocaust Historiography

    Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, Jürgen Matthäus et al.BOOKBeyond "Ordinary Men"2019

    Reflecting on the work of one of the field’s most influential scholars, the twenty essays in this book explore the evolution and application of Holocaust historiography, identify key insights into genocidal settings and point to gaps in our knowledge of humanity’s most haunting problem.Why do they kill?The publication in 1992 of Christopher R. Browning’s “Ordinary Men” raised crucial, previously unasked questions about the Holocaust: what made th…

  • The Holocaust and North Africa Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein

    Open AccessFrancis R NicosiaARTICLEHolocaust and Genocide Studies2019

    This collection of fifteen essays and commentaries by noted scholars constitutes an invaluable contribution to the growing body of literature on the Holocaust, North Africa, and the Middle East. There was a significant Jewish population of about half a million in North Africa at the outbreak of World War II. These communities were directly affected by the Shoah. Geographical proximity to Europe, the presence of German troops from February 1941 to…

  • Dokumente Zur Geschichte des Deutschen Zionismus 1933-1941

    Francis R NicosiaBOOKDokumente Zur Geschichte des…2018

    Dieser Band enthält die wichtigsten Quellen zur Geschichte des deutschen Zionismus und zur Arbeit der zionistischen Bewegung im Zeitraum zwischen Hitlers Machtergreifung im Jahr 1933 und dem Jahr 1941, das mit dem Beschluss der »Endlösung der Judenfrage« die finale Verschärfung der nationalsozialistischen Judenverfolgung markiert. Die Dokumente spiegeln die Entwicklung der judenfeindlichen Politik des NS-Regimes und die zunehmenden Schwierigkeite…

  • Dokumente zur Geschichte des deutschen Zionismus 1933–1941

    Francis R NicosiaBOOKDokumente zur Geschichte des…2018

    This volume contains the most important archival sources that deal with German Zionism, and the work of the Zionist movement in the time between Hitlers seizure of power in 1933 and the year 1941 when the National Socialist states policy shifted to the total physical annihilation of the Jewish people.

  • Hitler’s Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi GermanyNathan Stoltzfus

    Francis R NicosiaARTICLEHolocaust and Genocide Studies2017

  • Germans Against Nazism: Nonconformity, Opposition and Resistance in the Third Reich: Essays in Honour of Peter Hoffmann

    Open AccessFrancis R Nicosia, Lawrence D StokesBOOKGermans Against Nazism2015

  • The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews, by Bernard Wasserstein

    Open AccessFrancis R NicosiaARTICLEThe English Historical Review2015

    In the concluding chapter of his book on Gertrude van Tijn and the fate of the Jews in the Netherlands during the Second World War, Bernard Wasserstein identifies parallels between this extraordinary, but little-known, woman in wartime Holland and another extraordinary, but very well-known, woman of that period, Hannah Arendt. Each was an educated and independent-minded thinker from the highly-assimilated German Jewish bourgeoisie. For a time, bo…

  • Nazi Germany and the Arab World

    Open AccessFrancis R NicosiaBOOKNazi Germany and the Arab World2014

    This book considers the evolving strategic interests and foreign policy intent of the Third Reich toward the Arabic-speaking world, from Hitler's assumption of power in January 1933 to 1944, a year following the final Axis defeat in and expulsion from North Africa in May 1943. It does so within the context of two central, interconnected issues in the larger history of National Socialism and the Third Reich, namely Nazi geopolitical interests and …

  • The German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War in History and Memory, by Tim Grady

    Open AccessFrancis R NicosiaARTICLEThe English Historical Review2013

    Journal Article The German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War in History and Memory, by Tim Grady Get access The German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War in History and Memory, by Tim Grady (Liverpool: Liverpool U.P., 2011; pp. 260. £65). Francis R. Nicosia Francis R. Nicosia University of Vermont Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 533, August 2013, Pa…

  • Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History

    Andrew J Nicholson, Donald L Niewyk et al.BOOKThe Columbia Guide to the Holocaust2010

    Some postcolonial theorists argue that the idea of a single system of belief known as "Hinduism" is a creation of nineteenth-century British imperialists. Andrew J. Nicholson introduces another perspective: although a unified Hindu identity is not as ancient as some Hindus claim, it has its roots in innovations within South Asian philosophy from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. During this time, thinkers treated the philosophies of Vedant…

  • Between Home and Homeland: Youth Aliyah from Nazi Germany

    Open AccessFrancis R NicosiaARTICLECentral European History2007

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  • Jewish Farmers in Hitler's Germany: "Zionist Occupational Retraining and Nazi "Jewish Policy

    Francis R NicosiaARTICLEHolocaust and Genocide Studies2005References: 4

    Nazi support for Zionist and non-Zionist occupational retraining programs for young Jews between 1933 and 1941 reflected a desire to facilitate the rapid emigration of Jews from Germany. But this policy encountered considerable opposition from several government and party agencies because the retraining process involved activities they deemed violations of Nazi racial teaching. The policy debates and disagreements among the various offices of the…

  • Business and Industry in Nazi Germany

    Open AccessFrancis R Nicosia, Jonathan HuenerBOOKBusiness and Industry in Nazi…2004

  • The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust: Confronting Deviant Behavior in World Politics

    Miroslav Nincic, Donald L Niewyk et al.BOOKRenegade Regimes2003

    Offering a multidimensional approach to one of the most important episodes of the twentieth century, The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust offers readers and researchers a general history of the Holocaust while delving into the core issues and debates in the study of the Holocaust today. Each of the book's five distinct parts stands on its own as valuable research aids; together, they constitute an integrated whole. Part I provides a narrative over…

  • The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide

    Francis R NicosiaARTICLEHolocaust and Genocide Studies2002

    1Saint Michael's College The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide YairAuron New Brunswick, NJTransaction Publishers 2000405$39.95

  • The Weimar Republic

    Francis R Nicosia, Stephen J LeeARTICLEGerman Studies Review2000

  • Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII

    Francis R Nicosia, Francis NicosiaARTICLEThe European Legacy2000

    (2000). Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII. The European Legacy: Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 581-584

  • Drang nach Osten’ Continued? Germany and Afghanistan during the Weimar Republic

    Open AccessFrancis R NicosiaARTICLEJournal of Contemporary History1997Cited by: 3References: 2

  • Zionist culture and West European Jewry before the First World War

    Francis R NicosiaARTICLEHistory of European Ideas1995

  • Germany and the Middle East: Patterns and Prospects

    Francis R Nicosia, Shahram ChubinARTICLEGerman Studies Review1994

    Germany, and world politics, R. Burt Germany, the Alliance and out-of-area crisis, G.F. Treverton Germany, and conflicts in the Middle East, H. Hubel Germany and Islam - historical and domestic dimensions Germany and relations with Iran and Iraq, U. Steinbach Israel and Germany - special relationship?, M. Heller German society and foreign policy, S. Szabo economic relations with the Middle East, H. Maull formal and informal arms sales, E. Karsch …

  • Germans against Nazism, Nonconformity, Opposition and Resistance in the Third Reich

    Michael Phayer, Francis R Nicosia et al.ARTICLEGerman Studies Review1993

  • Shorter Notices

    Francis R Nicosia, Francis NicosiaARTICLEThe English Historical Review1993

    Shorter Notices Get access FRANCIS NICOSIA FRANCIS NICOSIA St Michael's CollegeVermont Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue CCCCXXIX, October 1993, Pages 1080–1081, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.CCCCXXIX.1080 Published: 01 October 1993

  • Zionism in anti-semitic thought in imperial Germany

    Francis R NicosiaARTICLEHistory of European Ideas1993References: 3

    The question of continuity versus discontinuity in modern German history since 1871 has been a dominant theme among historians in the post-World War II era. It has naturally been generated by the unique character and horror of the Third Reich. The inclination to firmly establish, temper or, in some cases, to simply refute the immediate origins in Imperial Germany of the militarism, imperialism, authoritarianism and racism/anti-Semitism of Nazi Ge…

  • The retreat of scientific racism: Changing concepts of race in Britain and the United States between the world wars

    Francis R NicosiaREVIEWHistory of European Ideas1993

  • Voegelin on the idea of race: An analysis of modern European racism

    Francis R NicosiaARTICLEHistory of European Ideas1992

    Voegelin on the idea of race: An analysis of modern European racism." History of European Ideas, 14(2), pp. 298–299