Beyond Helpless Victims and Survivor Trauma
New Historiography on Jews in the Age of the Holocaust
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22947400 |
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| Authors | Ferenc Laczo (0000-0002-0543-7653, Maastricht University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 693-707 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0960-7773 • E-ISSN: 1469-2171 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0960777318000048 |
| OpenAlex | W2773353116 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
This review essay explores recent scholarship on the history of Jews in the post-Habsburg territories, before and after the Second World War. The impressive wave of scholarship that has emerged in recent decades on European Jewish history shortly before, during and, increasingly, after the Holocaust, has only made historians more aware of how much they have left to do to reconstruct, at least in text, the lives of European Jews – a multilingual and culturally, economically and politically heterogeneous group – that the Holocaust so systematically and brutally destroyed. Aiming to overcome reductionist attempts that either subsume the history of Jews under a national narrative or parcel it into separate national units without comparative or transnational agendas, a growing number of scholars aim to reconceptualise Jewish history as being crucial to European and global history.
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Historiography · Jewish history · Jewish studies · Judaism · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Reductionism · Scholarship · Sociology · The Holocaust · World history · World War II · Central European national history · European history and politics · Gender Studies · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy
Catastrophe and Utopia
Nationale Helden und jüdische Opfer
Hungarian Jews in the Age of Genocide
How Judaism Became a Religion
Final Solution, The Fate of the Jews 1933–1949
Lessons of the Holocaust
Pétain's Jewish Children
Undeclared Wars with Israel
After the Holocaust
Bloodlands
Vanished History
Choosing Slovakia
The Jewish Century
Die Judenverfolgung im Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren
The Phoenix? Jewish Studies in Post-Communist Europe
Bloodlands
Multidirectional Memory
Imagined Noncommunities
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