Benjamin Frommer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Frommer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Frommer |
| SIGNATURE | FROMMER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-7064-1962 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Parallel Fates? Roma and Jews in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
The Nazi genocide of Roma and Jews in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia left only a remnant of each community alive in their native land. The common fate of most Jews and Roma in the western provinces of the former Czechoslovakia suggests a certain congruity to their wartime experience: both groups suffered persecution, dispossession, incarceration, and ultimately deportation and murder. In the years before mass transports to ghetto and kil…
Searching for Entanglement
Even as it has become increasingly accepted that the genocide of Roma and Sinti was interconnected to the genocide of European Jews, few scholars have written histories that integrated different victim groups into a coherent narrative. Even fewer have considered how the victim groups viewed one another or examined to what extent the persecuted understood their own experience as part of an integrated genocide with common roots and similar routes. …
On Behalf of the Undergraduates
István Deák was a gifted teacher of undergraduates as well as graduate students. In this essay, two Columbia College alumni who were inspired to become historians because they took classes with István as undergraduates remember his inspiring presence in the classroom
Postscript
The postscript reports on the conference and comments on what the papers and audience participation tell us about the state of the field and Poland’s struggle to come to terms with its past
Czechoslovakia in a Nationalist and Fascist Europe, 1918-1948
Journal Article Czechoslovakia in a Nationalist and Fascist Europe, 1918-1948 Get access Czechoslovakia in a Nationalist and Fascist Europe, 1918–1948, ed. Mark Cornwall and R.J.W. Evans (Oxford: Oxford U.P., for the British Academy, 2007; pp. xviii + 258. £35). Ben Frommer Ben Frommer Northwestern University, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Issue 507, …
Retribution as Legitimation
This article considers the postwar Czechoslovak regime's attempt to employ the courts to gain political legitimacy. In particular, it examines four retribution trials of prominent Czech collaborators and German Nazis and the role these cases played in the development of the contemporary power struggle. The article argues that the postwar regime's manipulation of the judicial system for political ends was fraught with contradictions and ultimately…
Expulsion or Integration
Expulsion or Integration
Retribution as Legitimation
This article considers the postwar Czechoslovak regime's attempt to employ the courts to gain political legitimacy. In particular, it examines four retribution trials of prominent Czech collaborators and German Nazis and the role these cases played in the development of the contemporary power struggle. The article argues that the postwar regime's manipulation of the judicial system for political ends was fraught with contradictions and ultimately…
Postscript
The postscript reports on the conference and comments on what the papers and audience participation tell us about the state of the field and Poland’s struggle to come to terms with its past
Expulsion or Integration
Retribution as Legitimation
This article considers the postwar Czechoslovak regime's attempt to employ the courts to gain political legitimacy. In particular, it examines four retribution trials of prominent Czech collaborators and German Nazis and the role these cases played in the development of the contemporary power struggle. The article argues that the postwar regime's manipulation of the judicial system for political ends was fraught with contradictions and ultimately…
Czechoslovakia in a Nationalist and Fascist Europe, 1918-1948
Journal Article Czechoslovakia in a Nationalist and Fascist Europe, 1918-1948 Get access Czechoslovakia in a Nationalist and Fascist Europe, 1918–1948, ed. Mark Cornwall and R.J.W. Evans (Oxford: Oxford U.P., for the British Academy, 2007; pp. xviii + 258. £35). Ben Frommer Ben Frommer Northwestern University, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Issue 507, …
Postscript
The postscript reports on the conference and comments on what the papers and audience participation tell us about the state of the field and Poland’s struggle to come to terms with its past
On Behalf of the Undergraduates
István Deák was a gifted teacher of undergraduates as well as graduate students. In this essay, two Columbia College alumni who were inspired to become historians because they took classes with István as undergraduates remember his inspiring presence in the classroom
Parallel Fates? Roma and Jews in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
The Nazi genocide of Roma and Jews in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia left only a remnant of each community alive in their native land. The common fate of most Jews and Roma in the western provinces of the former Czechoslovakia suggests a certain congruity to their wartime experience: both groups suffered persecution, dispossession, incarceration, and ultimately deportation and murder. In the years before mass transports to ghetto and kil…
Searching for Entanglement
Even as it has become increasingly accepted that the genocide of Roma and Sinti was interconnected to the genocide of European Jews, few scholars have written histories that integrated different victim groups into a coherent narrative. Even fewer have considered how the victim groups viewed one another or examined to what extent the persecuted understood their own experience as part of an integrated genocide with common roots and similar routes. …
Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Central European national history (2 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (2 works) · European history and politics (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Human Factors and Ergonomics (2 works)