Saul Friedländer
Biographic Data
| ID | 281470 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saul Friedländer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saul |
| FAMILY NAME | Friedländer |
| SIGNATURE | FRIEDLÄNDER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Diary of a Crisis
Lecture
This lecture by Prof. Saul Friedländer and the following response by Prof. Michal Govrin were delivered at Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, on October 10, 2013. The public lecture was part of the “Transmitted Memory and Fiction’ research group. The following morning, a study session was held with Saul Friedländer, Otto Dov Kulka, the members of the research group, and other guests.In his keynotes lecture, Friedländer discussed the two modes of tran…
The Holocaust and Historical Methodology
In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as important for understanding the Holocaust-and, by extension, any past event-as is archival research. It aims to go beyond the dominant paradigm of politic…
A Fundamentally Singular Crime
This article deals with the debate over Dirk Moses' essay “The German Catechism,” which sparked controversy after its publication in May 2021. In his piece, Moses argues that the Holocaust should be examined in unison with the genocides perpetrated during colonialism. This article criticizes Moses' interpretation that questions the singularity of the Holocaust, stressing instead that the Shoah is fundamentally different from other historical crim…
Holocaust, The
Religion, Politics and Ideology in the Third Reich
In a perceptive analysis of diverse source material, the essays of the late Uriel Tal in this volume uncover the dynamics of the secularization of religion, and the sacralization of politics in the Nazi era. Through a process of inversion of meaning, concepts such as race, blood, soil, state, nation and Führer were brought into the realm of faith, mission, salvation, sacredness and myth, thereby acquiring absolute significance. Within this Nazi w…
Reflections of Nazism
‘Trauma and Transference’
‘The “ Final Solution”
History, Memory, and the Historian
On July 9, 1942, Henry Montor, the President of the United Palestine Appeal, asked Richard Lichtheim, the representative of the Jewish Agency in Geneva, to send him 1500-word article reviewing the position of the Jews in Europe. feel at present quite unable to write 'report', Lichtheim answered Montor on August 13, a survey, something cool and clear and reasonable. .... So I wrote not survey but something more personal, an article if you like, or…
L'Allemagne nazie et les Juifs, 1, Les annees de persecution (1933-1939)
Nazi Germany and the Jews, Vol. 1
Forming the Holocaust
Probing the Limits of Representation
Memory, History, and the Extermination of the Jews of Europe
A world-famous scholar analyzes the historiography of the Nazi period, including conflicting interpretations of the Holocaust and the impact of German reunification
German Leftists Come to Grips With the Past
The articles analysed in this paper reflect a turning point in the evolution of German radicalism. For the first time, leftists doubt publicly the very foundations of their ideology — the concepts of fascism and racism — as a possible key for understanding Nazism. They discover their own ‘negation of history’, after having criticized that of their fathers, and react with a massive ‘anti-Jewish impulse’, revealing thus some of the mechanisms of le…
"The End of Innovation? Contemporary Historical Consciousness and the "End of History
AS WE APPROACH of this century, which is also of millennium, our vision of is suddenly confronted with a series of unexpected challenges. On one hand, what appeared as well-anchored ideological and political structures are crumbling, and evolution of heartland of Europe--possibly of entire Euro-Asian continent--is shrouded in uncertainty, in which influence of a distant past seems to play an important role, together with intimations of total nove…
A Controversy about the Historicization of National Socialism
September 28, 1987 Dear Mr. Friedlander, On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the end of Nazi rule in May 1985, I published an essay entitled A for a Historicization of National Socialism (Plidoyer ffir eine Historisierung des Nationalsozialismus) in the magazine Merkur. As far as I know, you have voiced reservations about the concept and fundamental idea of this historicization postulate a number of times in various lectures and articles, …
Réflexions sur l'historisation du national-socialisme
Reflections on the historization of national-socialism, Saul Friedländer. A debate on how to study the 1933-1945 period has been opened by several German historians. They favor a « historization » of Nazism, which would make it possible to set those years in the continuity of German history. But reconsidering the national-socialist past according to such criteria is misleading ; above ail, it denies the specificity of the Hitlerite plan : decidin…
Sur le nazisme
De l'antisémitisme à l'extermination
Vatican Diplomacy and the Jews during the Holocaust, 1939-1943 . John F. Morley
L'extermination des Juifs d'Europe
Trois décennies après l'extermination massive de six millions de Juifs en Europe, le débat se poursuit sur les causes de ce phénomène : unique dans l'ère nazie, il s'avère inassimilable à d'autres faits contemporains et non identifiable à de précédentes explosions meurtrières dans l'histoire. Toute tentative d'explication généralisante et/ou unicausale (simple manifestation de fascisme, de totalitarisme ; conséquence du processus économique ; eff…
The Personality Correlates of Belligerence in International Conflict
In a situation of conflict, a rational decision-maker bases his decisions on a more or less dispassionate calculation of means and ends; he chooses that response best suited achieve his defined goal. He may decide to respond aggressively an international event, but the aggressive response will have its source in calculations based upon the nature of the international system....if there are psychological side-effects, they will be irrelevant as fa…
Prelude to Downfall
Nazi Germany and the Jews, Vol. 1
The Personality Correlates of Belligerence in International Conflict
In a situation of conflict, a rational decision-maker bases his decisions on a more or less dispassionate calculation of means and ends; he chooses that response best suited achieve his defined goal. He may decide to respond aggressively an international event, but the aggressive response will have its source in calculations based upon the nature of the international system....if there are psychological side-effects, they will be irrelevant as fa…
History, Memory, and the Historian
On July 9, 1942, Henry Montor, the President of the United Palestine Appeal, asked Richard Lichtheim, the representative of the Jewish Agency in Geneva, to send him 1500-word article reviewing the position of the Jews in Europe. feel at present quite unable to write 'report', Lichtheim answered Montor on August 13, a survey, something cool and clear and reasonable. .... So I wrote not survey but something more personal, an article if you like, or…
A Controversy about the Historicization of National Socialism
September 28, 1987 Dear Mr. Friedlander, On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the end of Nazi rule in May 1985, I published an essay entitled A for a Historicization of National Socialism (Plidoyer ffir eine Historisierung des Nationalsozialismus) in the magazine Merkur. As far as I know, you have voiced reservations about the concept and fundamental idea of this historicization postulate a number of times in various lectures and articles, …
A Fundamentally Singular Crime
This article deals with the debate over Dirk Moses' essay “The German Catechism,” which sparked controversy after its publication in May 2021. In his piece, Moses argues that the Holocaust should be examined in unison with the genocides perpetrated during colonialism. This article criticizes Moses' interpretation that questions the singularity of the Holocaust, stressing instead that the Shoah is fundamentally different from other historical crim…
Prelude to Downfall
The Personality Correlates of Belligerence in International Conflict
In a situation of conflict, a rational decision-maker bases his decisions on a more or less dispassionate calculation of means and ends; he chooses that response best suited achieve his defined goal. He may decide to respond aggressively an international event, but the aggressive response will have its source in calculations based upon the nature of the international system....if there are psychological side-effects, they will be irrelevant as fa…
L'extermination des Juifs d'Europe
Trois décennies après l'extermination massive de six millions de Juifs en Europe, le débat se poursuit sur les causes de ce phénomène : unique dans l'ère nazie, il s'avère inassimilable à d'autres faits contemporains et non identifiable à de précédentes explosions meurtrières dans l'histoire. Toute tentative d'explication généralisante et/ou unicausale (simple manifestation de fascisme, de totalitarisme ; conséquence du processus économique ; eff…
Vatican Diplomacy and the Jews during the Holocaust, 1939-1943 . John F. Morley
De l'antisémitisme à l'extermination
Réflexions sur l'historisation du national-socialisme
Reflections on the historization of national-socialism, Saul Friedländer. A debate on how to study the 1933-1945 period has been opened by several German historians. They favor a « historization » of Nazism, which would make it possible to set those years in the continuity of German history. But reconsidering the national-socialist past according to such criteria is misleading ; above ail, it denies the specificity of the Hitlerite plan : decidin…
Sur le nazisme
A Controversy about the Historicization of National Socialism
September 28, 1987 Dear Mr. Friedlander, On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the end of Nazi rule in May 1985, I published an essay entitled A for a Historicization of National Socialism (Plidoyer ffir eine Historisierung des Nationalsozialismus) in the magazine Merkur. As far as I know, you have voiced reservations about the concept and fundamental idea of this historicization postulate a number of times in various lectures and articles, …
"The End of Innovation? Contemporary Historical Consciousness and the "End of History
AS WE APPROACH of this century, which is also of millennium, our vision of is suddenly confronted with a series of unexpected challenges. On one hand, what appeared as well-anchored ideological and political structures are crumbling, and evolution of heartland of Europe--possibly of entire Euro-Asian continent--is shrouded in uncertainty, in which influence of a distant past seems to play an important role, together with intimations of total nove…
German Leftists Come to Grips With the Past
The articles analysed in this paper reflect a turning point in the evolution of German radicalism. For the first time, leftists doubt publicly the very foundations of their ideology — the concepts of fascism and racism — as a possible key for understanding Nazism. They discover their own ‘negation of history’, after having criticized that of their fathers, and react with a massive ‘anti-Jewish impulse’, revealing thus some of the mechanisms of le…
Memory, History, and the Extermination of the Jews of Europe
A world-famous scholar analyzes the historiography of the Nazi period, including conflicting interpretations of the Holocaust and the impact of German reunification
Probing the Limits of Representation
Forming the Holocaust
Nazi Germany and the Jews, Vol. 1
L'Allemagne nazie et les Juifs, 1, Les annees de persecution (1933-1939)
History, Memory, and the Historian
On July 9, 1942, Henry Montor, the President of the United Palestine Appeal, asked Richard Lichtheim, the representative of the Jewish Agency in Geneva, to send him 1500-word article reviewing the position of the Jews in Europe. feel at present quite unable to write 'report', Lichtheim answered Montor on August 13, a survey, something cool and clear and reasonable. .... So I wrote not survey but something more personal, an article if you like, or…
Reflections of Nazism
‘Trauma and Transference’
‘The “ Final Solution”
Religion, Politics and Ideology in the Third Reich
In a perceptive analysis of diverse source material, the essays of the late Uriel Tal in this volume uncover the dynamics of the secularization of religion, and the sacralization of politics in the Nazi era. Through a process of inversion of meaning, concepts such as race, blood, soil, state, nation and Führer were brought into the realm of faith, mission, salvation, sacredness and myth, thereby acquiring absolute significance. Within this Nazi w…
Holocaust, The
The Holocaust and Historical Methodology
In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as important for understanding the Holocaust-and, by extension, any past event-as is archival research. It aims to go beyond the dominant paradigm of politic…
A Fundamentally Singular Crime
This article deals with the debate over Dirk Moses' essay “The German Catechism,” which sparked controversy after its publication in May 2021. In his piece, Moses argues that the Holocaust should be examined in unison with the genocides perpetrated during colonialism. This article criticizes Moses' interpretation that questions the singularity of the Holocaust, stressing instead that the Shoah is fundamentally different from other historical crim…
Lecture
This lecture by Prof. Saul Friedländer and the following response by Prof. Michal Govrin were delivered at Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, on October 10, 2013. The public lecture was part of the “Transmitted Memory and Fiction’ research group. The following morning, a study session was held with Saul Friedländer, Otto Dov Kulka, the members of the research group, and other guests.In his keynotes lecture, Friedländer discussed the two modes of tran…
Diary of a Crisis
Philosophy (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · History (12 works) · European history and politics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (7 works) · The Holocaust (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works)