Historians of the Jews and the Holocaust

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20002946
AutoresDavid Engel (0000-0002-5394-7105, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Fecha de publicación2009-12-07
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaHistorians of the Jews and the Holocaust (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialStanford University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11126/stanford/9780804759519.001.0001
OpenAlexW2498151051
Open LibraryOL24460877M
ISBN9780804759519
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9

The Nazi Holocaust is often said to dominate the study of modern Jewish history. This book demonstrates that, to the contrary, historians of the Jews have often insisted that the Holocaust be sequestered from their field, assigning it instead to historians of Europe, Germany, or the Third Reich. It shows that reasons for this counterintuitive situation lie in the evolution of the Jewish historical profession since the 1920s. This study takes readers on a tour of twentieth-century scholars of the history of European Jewry, and the social and political contexts in which they worked, in order to understand why many have declined to view their subject from the vantage point of Jews' encounter with the Third Reich. The author argues vehemently against this separation and describes ways in which a few exceptional scholars have used the Holocaust to illuminate key problems in the Jewish past

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Judaism · Nazi Germany · Nazism · Order (exchange) · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subject (documents) · The Holocaust · Classics · European history and politics · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · 20th century · Europe · Historiography · Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) · Jewish historians · Jews