Eugene Kulischer, Joseph Schechtman and the Historiography of European Forced Migrations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10074894 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Antonio Ferrara (0000-0002-7384-404X, University of Naples Federico II, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 715-740 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022009411413403 |
| OpenAlex | W2027732799 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
This article deals with two prominent figures in the historiography of twentieth-century European forced migrations: Eugene Kulischer and Joseph Schechtman. Their studies, although published between 1946 and 1962, are still among the standard works on the subject and are as yet unsurpassed in their scope and breadth of outlook, despite the flurry of new publications on the subject after the opening of East Central European archives after 1989. In this article I strive to explain how and why they were able to accomplish such a scholarly feat, paying special attention to their biographies which I have tried to reconstruct, using, for the first time, not only their own writings but also personal testimonies from their students and disparate archival sources located in the United States and Israel. I also discuss the strengths and weaknesses of their works by comparing them with more recent works on the same subject. This is, to my knowledge, the first attempt to reconstruct on the basis of archival evidence the lives and works of the two most important historians of a phenomenon whose impact on the overall history of Europe (and especially of its East Central part) is now generally recognized
Archaeology · Epistemology · Genealogy · Historiography · Library science · Phenomenon · Scope (computer science · Subject (documents · Classics · Computer Science · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European history and politics · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Philosophy
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| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2020 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |