Moshe Prager's Holocaust historicism
Concrete data, inner faith and myth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12904185 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gershon Greenberg (American University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 54-72 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Holocaust Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-4902 • E-ISSN: 2048-4887 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17504902.2015.1062275 |
| OpenAlex | W2258435877 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
Moshe Prager was the earliest historiographer of the Holocaust. He dedicated his life's work to probing into its abyss to contribute to the future revival of the Jewish people. Later scholars of the Holocaust were engaged either in standard empirical historical research, hagiography, or the catastrophe's mythic layer. Prager acted as an objective historian concerned with Jewish physical existence; with the hagiographer's ahistorical religious concerns and with the historian of religion's attention to metahistorical issues of moral dichotomy and religious practice. Prager held that the Holocaust changed the direction of Jewish history, and therefore addressed all three dimensions
Art · Epistemology · Faith · Historicism · Historiography · Judaism · Literature · Mythology · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The Holocaust · Theology · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |