David Cesarani
Biographic Data
| ID | 366208 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Cesarani |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Cesarani |
| SIGNATURE | CESARANI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 156 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Disraeli
Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann’s career was discussed in detail at his trial in Jerusalem, where the historical issue was to determine to what extent he was responsable for the implementation of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question”. In “Adolf Eichmann: a Nazi Career,” David Cesarani meticulously studied the Nazi files that covered Eichmann’s life in the years 1932-45, during which, the son of the petty bourgeois family became a key player in SS antisemati…
Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann, haut fonctionnaire nazi, est l’incarnation de la « banalité du mal ». De 1941 à 1945, assis à son bureau, il organise méticuleusement l’extermination de millions de juifs. Après la guerre, Eichmann fuit en Argentine, où il mène une vie paisible. En mai 1960, enlevé par le Mossad, il est conduit en Israël pour y être jugé. Événement majeur, son procès s’ouvre à Jérusalem le 11 avril 1961 et est retransmis dans le monde entier. Un a…
Port Jews
The history of Jews in cosmopolitan maritime trading centres is a field of research that is reshaping our understanding of how Jews entered the modern world. These studies show that the utility of Jewish merchants in an era of European expansion was vital to their acculturation and assimilation
After Eichmann
In 1961 Adolf Eichmann went on trial in Jerusalem for his part in the Nazi persecution and mass murder of Europe’s Jews. For the first time a judicial process focussed on the genocide against the Jews and heard Jewish witnesses to the catastrophe. The trial and the controversies it caused had a profound effect on shaping the collective memory of what became ‘the Holocaust’. This volume, a special issue of the Journal of Israeli History, brings to…
Belsen in History and Memory
Drawing on documentary and oral sources in Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Dutch and French, this book challenges many sterotypes about Belsen, and reinstates the groups hitherto marginalized or ignored in accounts of the camp and its liberation
Pogroms, Peasants, Jews
There is now a considerable literature on Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe into Britain between 1880 and 1914, and the response it provoked among British Jews and the population as a whole. However, as Sam Johnson points out here, much of this scholarship is weakened by a rather parochial approach. There has been little effort to relate the perception of immigrant Jews to the ways in which the Tsarist Empire (from which most of them came) w…
The war on terror that failed
This essay examines the disappearance in 1947 of a young Jewish insurgent fighting the British in Palestine, Alexander Rubowitz. Kidnapped by a secret British army unit led by Major Roy Farran, Rubowitz's body has never been found. Farran was suspected of responsibility and detained but he escaped from custody twice before he was put on trial for the abduction and alleged murder of the youth. The ‘Farran Affair’ became a cause célèbre and it was …
On the "War" between Holocaust Historians and Jewish Historians
On the "War" between Holocaust Historians and Jewish Historians David Cesarani David Engel . Historians of the Jews and the Holocaust. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2010. Pp. xvii + 314. According to David Engel's new book, Historians of the Jews and the Holocaust, there is "a wall separating study of the Holocaust from study of all other aspects of the Jewish past" (p. 23). It preclu…
After the Holocaust
Introduction David Cesarani 1. There was no silence: an overview of post-war responses to the destruction of European Jewry David Cesarani 2. Acting the Part: Theatrical Interpretations of the Holocaust in the Displaced Persons Camps of Germany Margarete Feinstein 3. No Silence in Yiddish: Popular and scholarly writing about the Holocaust in the early postwar years Mark Smith 4. The Centre Documentation Juive Comptemporaine, Paris, 1945-1955 Laur…
The End of the British Mandate for Palestine, 1948
How Post-war Britain Reflected on the Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder of Europe's Jews
During the 1990s historians began paying attention to how societies in the postwar era reflected on the destruction of Europe's Jews between 1933 and 1945 and soon a consensus evolved that there had been a brief burst of media coverage and outrage related to the liberation of the concentration camps and war crimes trials in 1945–46 which soon faded. However, from 1999 a number of historians looking at the USA and other countries went beyond the i…
Controversy and Crisis
Journal Article Controversy and Crisis: Studies in the History of the Jews in Modern Britain Get access Controversy and Crisis: Studies in the History of the Jews in Modern Britain, by Geoffrey Alderman (Boston, MA: Academic Studies P., 2008; pp. 366. $75). D. Cesarani D. Cesarani Royal Holloway, University of London [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, V…
Putting London Jewish Intellectuals in their Place
The extensive cultural histories of Newark's Jewish intellectuals have made much of the ethnic and spatial dimension in their formation as individuals and as a group. Over the same time span that New York Jews threw up a galaxy of creative figures, from the 1920s to the 1950s, London witnessed the emergence of a stunning concentration of Jewish intellectuals. Many came from London's East End which performed a similar function to New York's Jewish…
A Brief History of Bergen-Belsen
Bergen-Belsen was not typical of any Nazi concentration camps. But its history reflects the development of Nazi racial policy and, especially, anti-Jewish policy. The first camp on the site held French and Belgian POWs. Thousands of Soviet POWs were sent to Stalag XIC/ 311 at Bergen-Belsen, of whom most perished due to neglect, disease and malnutrition. It is more familiar as a camp where Jews were held as bargaining counters in Nazi schemes to e…
Anti-Zionism in Britain, 1922–2002
Since 1902 Britain has been engaged with Zionism. This prolonged involvement offers a case study of diachronically shifting patterns of anti-Zionism and their relationship with patterns of anti-Jewish discourse in a specific national context. This article begins with an account of political anti-Zionism in the 1920s, a model for all subsequent anti-Zionism and a benchmark of virulence. It surveys political discourse concerning Zionism during the …
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis
THE history of intelligence has become a growth area over the last few years. It has been fuelled by the declassification programmes of several western countries and access to the records of East European intelligence agencies after the political changes of 1989–91. But has the release of all this intelligence material really changed what we know about the past? What is the significance of intelligence data that palpably did not have any impact a…
Debate On Michael Mann'sThe Dark Side of Democracy
Downfall
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid CesaraniDavid Cesarani is Research Professor in History at Royal Holloway, University of London. From 2000 to 2004 he was director of the AHRB Parkes Centre for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, Southampton University. His publications include Eichmann: His Life and Crimes (2004) and (ed.), Jews and Port Cities, 1590–1990: Commerce, Community and Cosmopolitanism (2006)
The Jews of Bristol and Liverpool, 1750–1850
(2004). The Jews of Bristol and Liverpool, 1750–1850: Port Jewish Communities in the Shadow of Slavery. Jewish Culture and History: Vol. 7, No. 1-2, pp. 141-156
Holocaust Controversies in the 1990s
The Man Who Stopped the Trains To Auschwitz
Citizenship, Nationality and Migration in Europe
Introduction. David Cesarani and Mary Fulbrook Part One: The European Context 1. The legal framework regulating citizenship of the EU Elspeth Guild 2. Changing citizenship in Europe: Remarks on postnational membership and the nation state Yasemin Soysal Part Two: Citizenship, Nationality and the Construction of Identity 3. The changing character of citizenship and nationality in Britain David Cesarani 4. The revenge of civil society: state, natio…
Lying About Hitler
1University of Southampton and AHRB Parkes Centre for the Study of Jewish/non‐Jewish Relations Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial Richard J.Evans New YorkBasic Books 2001318$27.00
The Holocaust on Trial
1University of Southampton and AHRB Parkes Centre for the Study of Jewish/non‐Jewish Relations The Holocaust on Trial D. D.Guttenplan New YorkNorton 2001317$24.95
Citizenship, Nationality and Migration in Europe
Introduction. David Cesarani and Mary Fulbrook Part One: The European Context 1. The legal framework regulating citizenship of the EU Elspeth Guild 2. Changing citizenship in Europe: Remarks on postnational membership and the nation state Yasemin Soysal Part Two: Citizenship, Nationality and the Construction of Identity 3. The changing character of citizenship and nationality in Britain David Cesarani 4. The revenge of civil society: state, natio…
Belsen in History and Memory
Drawing on documentary and oral sources in Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Dutch and French, this book challenges many sterotypes about Belsen, and reinstates the groups hitherto marginalized or ignored in accounts of the camp and its liberation
Anti‐alienism in England after the first world war
Beginning with a study of the origins of the 1919 Aliens Act and the campaigning for and against the legislation, this article makes it clear that anti‐alienism in the immediate post‐war period focused almost exclusively on the Jews. The workings of the Act in the 1920s are examined in some detail, as are the protests by Jews against its enforcement in many cases. The anti‐Jewish attitudes which appear to be entrenched in the responses of the sta…
Port Jews
The history of Jews in cosmopolitan maritime trading centres is a field of research that is reshaping our understanding of how Jews entered the modern world. These studies show that the utility of Jewish merchants in an era of European expansion was vital to their acculturation and assimilation
An alien concept? The continuity of anti‐alienism in British society before 1940
Anti‐alienism has usually been seen as a peripheral phenomenon in British society and politics. However, if anti‐alienism is understood broadly as a form of discourse as well as a political movement it emerges as a continuous and central theme. Anti‐alienism was the popular response to the first mass immigration into Britain, overwhelming earlier pro‐alien traditions of asylum. Anti‐alien legislation and the state apparatus for enforcing it estab…
Seizing the Day
In his rejoinder to Dan Stone, Cesarani attempts to answer the objections raised by the latter against the establishment of a Holocaust memorial day in Britain. Using the public response (so far) to the recent opening of the Imperial War Museum's permanent Holocaust exhibition as a test case, he argues that, contrary to Stone's worry that no one would register the existence of a memorial day, the British public shows every sign of being far from …
Port Jews
(2001). Port Jews: Concepts, Cases and Questions. Jewish Culture and History: Vol. 4, Port Jews: Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centres, 1550-1950, pp. 1-11
Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948
Arthur Koestler
This study makes use of Koestler's private papers and draws upon previously secret documents, exposing his involvement both with the Communist Party and the CIA. It also reveals the darker side of his nature, which led to the dual suicide with his third wife, Cynthia, in 1983
Anti-Zionism in Britain, 1922–2002
Since 1902 Britain has been engaged with Zionism. This prolonged involvement offers a case study of diachronically shifting patterns of anti-Zionism and their relationship with patterns of anti-Jewish discourse in a specific national context. This article begins with an account of political anti-Zionism in the 1920s, a model for all subsequent anti-Zionism and a benchmark of virulence. It surveys political discourse concerning Zionism during the …
Beyond Survival and Philanthropy
An embattled minority
Previous research on the impact of the First World War on Jews in Britain has concentrated on its effects on German or Russian immigrants. This article examines how English Jews were affected, analysing the dilemmas and complexities deriving from Jewish identity at a time of extreme nationalism. On policy regarding the oppression of Jews in Russia, the creation of all‐Jewish units, special facilities for orthodox Jews and the conscription of fore…
Debate On Michael Mann'sThe Dark Side of Democracy
Alien internment in Britain during the twentieth century
Alien internment in Britain remains unexplored and its significance at most is seen as limited, as ‘an unimpressive footnote’ in modern British history. The introduction explores how internment has been remembered (and forgotten) in a general process of marginalization. It highlights the weaknesses of existing literature and indicates how the essays in this volume confront many of the untouched or unanswered questions of this tragic, comic and of…
The Anti-Jewish Career of Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Cabinet Minister
It is almost axiomatic amongst historians of anti-semitism in England that 'at no point between 1876 and 1939 was there evidence of official governmental anti-semitism in Britain . . .' Yet in 1924, the Jewish community greeted with alarm and dismay the advent to the Cabinet of Sir William Joynson-Hicks, a man widely regarded as an antisemite.2 His tenure as Home Secretary was marked by constant conflict with Anglo-Jewry and in their eyes he live…
The war on terror that failed
This essay examines the disappearance in 1947 of a young Jewish insurgent fighting the British in Palestine, Alexander Rubowitz. Kidnapped by a secret British army unit led by Major Roy Farran, Rubowitz's body has never been found. Farran was suspected of responsibility and detained but he escaped from custody twice before he was put on trial for the abduction and alleged murder of the youth. The ‘Farran Affair’ became a cause célèbre and it was …
How Post-war Britain Reflected on the Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder of Europe's Jews
During the 1990s historians began paying attention to how societies in the postwar era reflected on the destruction of Europe's Jews between 1933 and 1945 and soon a consensus evolved that there had been a brief burst of media coverage and outrage related to the liberation of the concentration camps and war crimes trials in 1945–46 which soon faded. However, from 1999 a number of historians looking at the USA and other countries went beyond the i…
The Forgotten Port Jews of London
(2001). The Forgotten Port Jews of London: Court Jews Who Were Also Port Jews. Jewish Culture and History: Vol. 4, Port Jews: Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centres, 1550-1950, pp. 111-124
Camps de la mort, camps de concentration et camps d'internement dans la memoire collective britannique
Death camps, concentration camps and internment camps in British collective memory, David Cesarani. In studying cases of arbitrary detentions and massive detention that occurred in Great Britain during the first and second world wars, David Cesarani shows that several times the British government was led to twisting rules of law on which it was supposed to be founding its legitimacy as well as its prestige. The ignorance of these facts since 1945…
Antisemitism in the 1990s
We recently addressed the following statement and questions on the strength and nature of anti-Semitism in the 1990s to a number of Jews and non-Jews throughout the world: Talk of a ‘revival’ or ‘resurgence’ of anti-Semitism is now commonplace. This seems to be the result of developments in the former USSR and in Eastern and Central Europe since 1989, but also of increasing reports of anti-Semitic incidents taking place throughout Western Europe …
Anti‐Zionist politics and political antisemitism in Britain, 1920–1924
Anti‐Zionism in Britain in the early 1920s was inextricably bound up with an assault on the Jews as Jews which obscured the substantive issues of Palestine and Jewish‐Arab relations. As a result, Jews were later inclined to disregard the case anti‐Zionism made
Lying About Hitler
1University of Southampton and AHRB Parkes Centre for the Study of Jewish/non‐Jewish Relations Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial Richard J.Evans New YorkBasic Books 2001318$27.00
The Girls
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Suburbs
The belief in upward social mobility is cherished in Anglo-Jewry today, but it is substantially a myth. The inter-war years saw some dramatic cross-class mobility registered unambiguously by occupational and geographical change. But for a more significant section of the Jewish population, the experience was one of stasis or sideways movement. Occupations and addresses changed, but this only gave an illusion of genuine social mobility. And far fro…
Anti‐alienism in England after the first world war
Beginning with a study of the origins of the 1919 Aliens Act and the campaigning for and against the legislation, this article makes it clear that anti‐alienism in the immediate post‐war period focused almost exclusively on the Jews. The workings of the Act in the 1920s are examined in some detail, as are the protests by Jews against its enforcement in many cases. The anti‐Jewish attitudes which appear to be entrenched in the responses of the sta…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access DAVID CESARANI DAVID CESARANI Queen Mary College, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIV, Issue CCCCX, January 1989, Pages 268–269, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIV.CCCCX.268 Published: 01 January 1989
An embattled minority
Previous research on the impact of the First World War on Jews in Britain has concentrated on its effects on German or Russian immigrants. This article examines how English Jews were affected, analysing the dilemmas and complexities deriving from Jewish identity at a time of extreme nationalism. On policy regarding the oppression of Jews in Russia, the creation of all‐Jewish units, special facilities for orthodox Jews and the conscription of fore…
Anti‐Zionist politics and political antisemitism in Britain, 1920–1924
Anti‐Zionism in Britain in the early 1920s was inextricably bound up with an assault on the Jews as Jews which obscured the substantive issues of Palestine and Jewish‐Arab relations. As a result, Jews were later inclined to disregard the case anti‐Zionism made
The Anti-Jewish Career of Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Cabinet Minister
It is almost axiomatic amongst historians of anti-semitism in England that 'at no point between 1876 and 1939 was there evidence of official governmental anti-semitism in Britain . . .' Yet in 1924, the Jewish community greeted with alarm and dismay the advent to the Cabinet of Sir William Joynson-Hicks, a man widely regarded as an antisemite.2 His tenure as Home Secretary was marked by constant conflict with Anglo-Jewry and in their eyes he live…
Dual heritage or duel of heritages? Englishness and Jewishness in the heritage industry
The construction of an Anglo‐Jewish heritage in the 1890s was part of the struggle against exclusionary tendencies in English culture and politics. Continuing efforts to meld Anglo‐Jewish with English heritage from the 1900s to the 1940s were influenced by the imperative of communal defence and resulted in a distorted historiography along with a selective approach to the preservation of archives and monuments
Antisemitism in the 1990s
We recently addressed the following statement and questions on the strength and nature of anti-Semitism in the 1990s to a number of Jews and non-Jews throughout the world: Talk of a ‘revival’ or ‘resurgence’ of anti-Semitism is now commonplace. This seems to be the result of developments in the former USSR and in Eastern and Central Europe since 1989, but also of increasing reports of anti-Semitic incidents taking place throughout Western Europe …
An alien concept? The continuity of anti‐alienism in British society before 1940
Anti‐alienism has usually been seen as a peripheral phenomenon in British society and politics. However, if anti‐alienism is understood broadly as a form of discourse as well as a political movement it emerges as a continuous and central theme. Anti‐alienism was the popular response to the first mass immigration into Britain, overwhelming earlier pro‐alien traditions of asylum. Anti‐alien legislation and the state apparatus for enforcing it estab…
Conclusion and epilogue
(1992). Conclusion and epilogue. Immigrants & Minorities: Vol. 11, The Internment of Aliens in Twentieth Century Britain, pp. 210-216
Alien internment in Britain during the twentieth century
Alien internment in Britain remains unexplored and its significance at most is seen as limited, as ‘an unimpressive footnote’ in modern British history. The introduction explores how internment has been remembered (and forgotten) in a general process of marginalization. It highlights the weaknesses of existing literature and indicates how the essays in this volume confront many of the untouched or unanswered questions of this tragic, comic and of…
The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991
Founded in 1841, The Jewish Chronicle is the oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world. A force for change, a forum for debate and a shaper of Jewish identity, it has played a central part in the development of modern Anglo-Jewry. More than just a mirror of Anglo-Jewish mores, registering waves of immigration and social change, The Jewish Chronicle has been an active player in historical events. Its editors have intervened decis…
Shorter Notices
First British conference on the holocaust in Hungary
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access DAVID CESARANI DAVID CESARANI Institute of Contemporary History & Wiener LibraryLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 438, September 1995, Page 1042, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.438.1042 Published: 01 September 1995
The Final Solution
The Final Solution clarifies the key questions surrounding the attempt by the Nazis to exterminate the Jews. Drawing on important new research, these authoritative essays focus on the preconditions and antecedents for the 'Final Solution' and examine the immediate origins of the genocidal decision. Contributors also examine the responses of peoples and governments in Germany, occupied Europe, the USA and among Jews worldwide. The controversial co…
The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841-1991
Camps de la mort, camps de concentration et camps d'internement dans la memoire collective britannique
Death camps, concentration camps and internment camps in British collective memory, David Cesarani. In studying cases of arbitrary detentions and massive detention that occurred in Great Britain during the first and second world wars, David Cesarani shows that several times the British government was led to twisting rules of law on which it was supposed to be founding its legitimacy as well as its prestige. The ignorance of these facts since 1945…
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Suburbs
The belief in upward social mobility is cherished in Anglo-Jewry today, but it is substantially a myth. The inter-war years saw some dramatic cross-class mobility registered unambiguously by occupational and geographical change. But for a more significant section of the Jewish population, the experience was one of stasis or sideways movement. Occupations and addresses changed, but this only gave an illusion of genuine social mobility. And far fro…
Shorter notice. Whitewashing Britain. Race and Citizenship in the Postwar Era. K Paul
Journal Article Whitewashing Britain. Race and Citizenship in the Postwar Era. K Paul Get access D Cesarani D Cesarani University of Southampton, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 459, November 1999, Pages 1383–1384, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.459.1383 Published: 01 November 1999
The Final Solution
Arthur Koestler
This study makes use of Koestler's private papers and draws upon previously secret documents, exposing his involvement both with the Communist Party and the CIA. It also reveals the darker side of his nature, which led to the dual suicide with his third wife, Cynthia, in 1983
Switzerland and the Second World War
This collection of essays sheds light on the history of Switzerland during World War II, covering such topics as: trade; financial relations; gold; refugees; defence; and foreign relations. It also touches on official post-war measures to suppress Switzerland's involvement in the war
Seizing the Day
In his rejoinder to Dan Stone, Cesarani attempts to answer the objections raised by the latter against the establishment of a Holocaust memorial day in Britain. Using the public response (so far) to the recent opening of the Imperial War Museum's permanent Holocaust exhibition as a test case, he argues that, contrary to Stone's worry that no one would register the existence of a memorial day, the British public shows every sign of being far from …
The Dynamics of Diaspora
The classic model of diaspora constructs the process of population change as spatial, along a horizontal axis, and sequential, with one wave following another. Taking the history of the Jews in modern Britain as a case study, this article argues that we need to take account of the multi-layered character of diasporas, the possibility that vertical alignments are as important as horizontal ones, and that ideological currents may sweep through the …
Conclusion
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