Dan Michman
Biographic Data
| ID | 631519 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Michman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Michman |
| SIGNATURE | MICHMAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7496-496X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On the History of the Historiography of the Jewish Councils: Past Understandings and the Need for a Fresh Approach
Solidarity, Hope, and Wrestling with God: The Perspective of the Will for Life of the Jewish People in Modern Times as a Major Theme in Yehuda Bauer’s Historiography
Yehuda Bauer is well known for his public leadership in Holocaust and genocide studies. This article, however, sheds light on another aspect of Bauer's historiography: most of his research studies—that is, those for which he dove into primary archival research and that are focused on more concrete historical topics, rather than general overviews, and have an extensive scholarly apparatus—deal with Jewish history only and, more precisely, with som…
Why Is the Shoah Called ‘the Shoah’ or ‘the Holocaust’? On the History of the Terminology for the Nazi Anti-Jewish Campaign
In current public discourse as well as in scholarly research, two terms are used for the Nazi anti-Jewish campaign (1933–1945): ‘The Shoah’ in Hebrew and ‘the Holocaust’ in most of the other languages. These two terms are not the terms that the persecuted and the survivors themselves used during the period itself and in the first post-1945 years. Why than are the leading terms that we use today not the terms of the survivors? Moreover: when did t…
Rights and Wrongs in Scholarly Understanding of the Topic of North Africa and the Holocaust
The Holocaust and its impact are by now a vast interdisciplinary field of research that is carried out across the globe. Recently, growing attention has been paid to the fate of North African Jewry during the Holocaust period. The volume under review, based on papers from a 2015 conference on this subject at UCLA, raises some essential questions regarding the history and present state of research in this field. The review closely and critically e…
Beyond "Ordinary Men": Christopher R. Browning and Holocaust Historiography
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…
Commonalities and Peculiarities of the Return to Life of Holocaust Survivors in their Home Countries: The Dutch and Greek Cases in Context
This article provides a survey of the main characteristics of the return process of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust to their home countries in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, with the goal to contextualise and compare the return to the Netherlands and Greece
A Reply to Ian Lustick’s Article: Editor’s Note: This Comment is a Response to Ian Lustick’s Article in This Issue of Contemporary Jewry v37(1)
The Holocaust’ – Do We Agree What We Are Talking About
What exactly is the historical event commonly called ‘The Holocaust’? When reading the enormous historiography on ‘The Holocaust’ one becomes aware that the term is used in various meanings and that important aspects of the event itself are ignored. This essay discusses several issues: first, the epithet ‘The Holocaust’ and its equivalents and the history of their usage; second, the meaning of the fact that the Jewish aspect of the Nazi enterpris…
Explaining the Formation of Ghettos under Nazi Rule and its Bearings on Amsterdam.: Segregating “the Jews” or Containing the Perilous “Ostjuden”?
Bloodlands – eine Debatte über die Massenmorde der stalinistischen Sowjetunion und NS-Deutschlands
Survivors: Jewish Self-Help and Rescue in Nazi Occupied Western Europe, by Bob Moore
Journal Article Survivors: Jewish Self-Help and Rescue in Nazi Occupied Western Europe, by Bob Moore Get access Survivors: Jewish Self-Help and Rescue in Nazi Occupied Western Europe, by Moore Bob (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2009; pp. 528. £30). Dan Michman Dan Michman *Yad Vashem and Bar-Ilan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 127, Issue 527, August 2012, Pages 1020…
Explaining the Formation of Ghettos under Nazi Rule and its Bearings on Amsterdam. Segregating “the Jews” or Containing the Perilous “Ostjuden”?
On January 13, 1941, the Nazi ruler of the occupied Netherlands, Reichskommissar Arthur Seyss-Inquart, instructed the plenipotentiary ( Beauftragter ) for the city of Amsterdam, the Lübeck Senator Hans Böhmcker, to take measures regarding the “question of the presence of the Jews in Amsterdam”. Three days later, Böhm cker ordered the local Dutch city authorities to provide him as soon as possible with detailed data on a series of questions regard…
The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos during the Holocaust
This book is a linguistic-cultural study of the emergence of the Jewish ghettos during the Holocaust. It traces the origins and uses of the term 'ghetto' in European discourse from the sixteenth century to the Nazi regime. It examines with a magnifying glass both the actual establishment of and the discourse of the Nazis and their allies on ghettos from 1939 to 1944. With conclusions that oppose all existing explanations and cursory examinations …
Jews
La recherche sur la Shoah: Existe-t-il une « école israélienne »
This article shows that a particular school of Holocaust studies did indeed develop in Israel, with clear lineaments and distinct leaders. This “Israeli School” was a new avatar of the “Jerusalem School” of Jewish history, as it evolved during the 1920s and 1930s at the Hebrew University. It emphasizes the Jews as a living collective and views anti-Semitism as an existential datum of European culture that also explains the Holocaust. This school …
La Shoah dans la trame générale de l’histoire d’Israël à l’époque contemporaine: Approches et dilemmes des principaux historiens
Les dirigeants juifs face à la mort
The article analyzes the evolution of historiography on Jewish leadership during the Holocaust. It shows that the beginnings of research were anchored in the immediate post-war disputes in the Jewish community regarding the behaviour of the Jewish leaders, and that it was coloured by moral evaluations. Conceptually, it was shaped under the impact of the “intentionalist” perception of Nazi anti-Jewish policies and equated Jewish Councils with “Jew…
A History of the Holocaust
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Remembering the Holocaust in Germany, 1945-2000: German Strategies and Jewish Responses
Ten authors from five countries present a variety of fresh analyses of the strategies Germans have adopted in coping with the Nazi past. Through historical, sociological, educational, and cultural approaches the unresolved tensions existing in German society – between the will to be accepted as an integral part of western civilization and to put the Nazi chapter in general and the Holocaust in particular behind, on the one hand, and an awareness …
Dutch Jews as Perceived by Themselves and by Others: Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on the History of the Jews in the Netherlands
How did Jews in the Netherlands view themselves and how were they viewed by others? This is the single theme around which the twenty-five essays in this volume, written by scholars from the Netherlands, Israel and other countries, revolve. The studies encompass a variety of topics and periods, from the beginning of the Jewish settlement in the Dutch Republic through the Shoah and its aftermath. They include examinations of the Sephardi Jews in th…
The Holocaust” in the Eyes of Historians: The Problem of Conceptualization, Periodization, and Explanation 1
Journal Article “THE HOLOCAUST” IN THE EYES OF HISTORIANS: THE PROBLEM OF CONCEPTUALIZATION, PERIODIZATION, AND EXPLANATION1 Get access Dan Michman Dan Michman BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 15, Issue 3, October 1995, Pages 233–264, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/15.3.233 Published: 01 October 1995
She'erit Hapletah, 1944–1948: Rehabilitation and Political Struggle
Journal Article She'erit Hapletah, 1944–1948: Rehabilitation and Political Struggle: Review Essay Get access Dan Michman Dan Michman Bar-Ilan UniversityRamat-Gan, Israel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 7, Issue 1, Spring 1993, Pages 107–116, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/7.1.107 Published: 01 March 1993
Jewish religious life under Nazi domination: Nazi attitudes and Jewish problems
Dans cet article, deux aspects de la vie religieuse juive pendant la periode nazie sont examines: la politique nazie dans ce domaine et la facon dont cette politique a affecte quelques uns des points fondamentaux de la vie religieuse juive traditionnelle. La deterioration des conditions de vie religieuse pour les juifs apparait simplement comme une partie de la deterioration totale de la condition de tous les juifs
Why Is the Shoah Called ‘the Shoah’ or ‘the Holocaust’? On the History of the Terminology for the Nazi Anti-Jewish Campaign
In current public discourse as well as in scholarly research, two terms are used for the Nazi anti-Jewish campaign (1933–1945): ‘The Shoah’ in Hebrew and ‘the Holocaust’ in most of the other languages. These two terms are not the terms that the persecuted and the survivors themselves used during the period itself and in the first post-1945 years. Why than are the leading terms that we use today not the terms of the survivors? Moreover: when did t…
She'erit Hapletah, 1944–1948: Rehabilitation and Political Struggle
Journal Article She'erit Hapletah, 1944–1948: Rehabilitation and Political Struggle: Review Essay Get access Dan Michman Dan Michman Bar-Ilan UniversityRamat-Gan, Israel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 7, Issue 1, Spring 1993, Pages 107–116, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/7.1.107 Published: 01 March 1993
Jewish religious life under Nazi domination: Nazi attitudes and Jewish problems
Dans cet article, deux aspects de la vie religieuse juive pendant la periode nazie sont examines: la politique nazie dans ce domaine et la facon dont cette politique a affecte quelques uns des points fondamentaux de la vie religieuse juive traditionnelle. La deterioration des conditions de vie religieuse pour les juifs apparait simplement comme une partie de la deterioration totale de la condition de tous les juifs
The Holocaust” in the Eyes of Historians: The Problem of Conceptualization, Periodization, and Explanation 1
Journal Article “THE HOLOCAUST” IN THE EYES OF HISTORIANS: THE PROBLEM OF CONCEPTUALIZATION, PERIODIZATION, AND EXPLANATION1 Get access Dan Michman Dan Michman BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 15, Issue 3, October 1995, Pages 233–264, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/15.3.233 Published: 01 October 1995
Dutch Jews as Perceived by Themselves and by Others: Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on the History of the Jews in the Netherlands
How did Jews in the Netherlands view themselves and how were they viewed by others? This is the single theme around which the twenty-five essays in this volume, written by scholars from the Netherlands, Israel and other countries, revolve. The studies encompass a variety of topics and periods, from the beginning of the Jewish settlement in the Dutch Republic through the Shoah and its aftermath. They include examinations of the Sephardi Jews in th…
Remembering the Holocaust in Germany, 1945-2000: German Strategies and Jewish Responses
Ten authors from five countries present a variety of fresh analyses of the strategies Germans have adopted in coping with the Nazi past. Through historical, sociological, educational, and cultural approaches the unresolved tensions existing in German society – between the will to be accepted as an integral part of western civilization and to put the Nazi chapter in general and the Holocaust in particular behind, on the one hand, and an awareness …
Les dirigeants juifs face à la mort
The article analyzes the evolution of historiography on Jewish leadership during the Holocaust. It shows that the beginnings of research were anchored in the immediate post-war disputes in the Jewish community regarding the behaviour of the Jewish leaders, and that it was coloured by moral evaluations. Conceptually, it was shaped under the impact of the “intentionalist” perception of Nazi anti-Jewish policies and equated Jewish Councils with “Jew…
A History of the Holocaust
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
La recherche sur la Shoah: Existe-t-il une « école israélienne »
This article shows that a particular school of Holocaust studies did indeed develop in Israel, with clear lineaments and distinct leaders. This “Israeli School” was a new avatar of the “Jerusalem School” of Jewish history, as it evolved during the 1920s and 1930s at the Hebrew University. It emphasizes the Jews as a living collective and views anti-Semitism as an existential datum of European culture that also explains the Holocaust. This school …
La Shoah dans la trame générale de l’histoire d’Israël à l’époque contemporaine: Approches et dilemmes des principaux historiens
Jews
Explaining the Formation of Ghettos under Nazi Rule and its Bearings on Amsterdam. Segregating “the Jews” or Containing the Perilous “Ostjuden”?
On January 13, 1941, the Nazi ruler of the occupied Netherlands, Reichskommissar Arthur Seyss-Inquart, instructed the plenipotentiary ( Beauftragter ) for the city of Amsterdam, the Lübeck Senator Hans Böhmcker, to take measures regarding the “question of the presence of the Jews in Amsterdam”. Three days later, Böhm cker ordered the local Dutch city authorities to provide him as soon as possible with detailed data on a series of questions regard…
The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos during the Holocaust
This book is a linguistic-cultural study of the emergence of the Jewish ghettos during the Holocaust. It traces the origins and uses of the term 'ghetto' in European discourse from the sixteenth century to the Nazi regime. It examines with a magnifying glass both the actual establishment of and the discourse of the Nazis and their allies on ghettos from 1939 to 1944. With conclusions that oppose all existing explanations and cursory examinations …
Explaining the Formation of Ghettos under Nazi Rule and its Bearings on Amsterdam.: Segregating “the Jews” or Containing the Perilous “Ostjuden”?
Bloodlands – eine Debatte über die Massenmorde der stalinistischen Sowjetunion und NS-Deutschlands
Survivors: Jewish Self-Help and Rescue in Nazi Occupied Western Europe, by Bob Moore
Journal Article Survivors: Jewish Self-Help and Rescue in Nazi Occupied Western Europe, by Bob Moore Get access Survivors: Jewish Self-Help and Rescue in Nazi Occupied Western Europe, by Moore Bob (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2009; pp. 528. £30). Dan Michman Dan Michman *Yad Vashem and Bar-Ilan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 127, Issue 527, August 2012, Pages 1020…
The Holocaust’ – Do We Agree What We Are Talking About
What exactly is the historical event commonly called ‘The Holocaust’? When reading the enormous historiography on ‘The Holocaust’ one becomes aware that the term is used in various meanings and that important aspects of the event itself are ignored. This essay discusses several issues: first, the epithet ‘The Holocaust’ and its equivalents and the history of their usage; second, the meaning of the fact that the Jewish aspect of the Nazi enterpris…
A Reply to Ian Lustick’s Article: Editor’s Note: This Comment is a Response to Ian Lustick’s Article in This Issue of Contemporary Jewry v37(1)
Beyond "Ordinary Men": Christopher R. Browning and Holocaust Historiography
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…
Commonalities and Peculiarities of the Return to Life of Holocaust Survivors in their Home Countries: The Dutch and Greek Cases in Context
This article provides a survey of the main characteristics of the return process of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust to their home countries in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, with the goal to contextualise and compare the return to the Netherlands and Greece
Rights and Wrongs in Scholarly Understanding of the Topic of North Africa and the Holocaust
The Holocaust and its impact are by now a vast interdisciplinary field of research that is carried out across the globe. Recently, growing attention has been paid to the fate of North African Jewry during the Holocaust period. The volume under review, based on papers from a 2015 conference on this subject at UCLA, raises some essential questions regarding the history and present state of research in this field. The review closely and critically e…
Why Is the Shoah Called ‘the Shoah’ or ‘the Holocaust’? On the History of the Terminology for the Nazi Anti-Jewish Campaign
In current public discourse as well as in scholarly research, two terms are used for the Nazi anti-Jewish campaign (1933–1945): ‘The Shoah’ in Hebrew and ‘the Holocaust’ in most of the other languages. These two terms are not the terms that the persecuted and the survivors themselves used during the period itself and in the first post-1945 years. Why than are the leading terms that we use today not the terms of the survivors? Moreover: when did t…
Solidarity, Hope, and Wrestling with God: The Perspective of the Will for Life of the Jewish People in Modern Times as a Major Theme in Yehuda Bauer’s Historiography
Yehuda Bauer is well known for his public leadership in Holocaust and genocide studies. This article, however, sheds light on another aspect of Bauer's historiography: most of his research studies—that is, those for which he dove into primary archival research and that are focused on more concrete historical topics, rather than general overviews, and have an extensive scholarly apparatus—deal with Jewish history only and, more precisely, with som…
On the History of the Historiography of the Jewish Councils: Past Understandings and the Need for a Fresh Approach
Political science (16 works) · Law (15 works) · History (14 works) · The Holocaust (14 works) · Judaism (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Nazism (10 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works)