Holocaust Scholarship: Personal Trajectories and Professional Interpretations

ISBN-13: 9781137514189 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 258 str.

Christopher Browning; Susannah Heschel; Michael R. Marrus

Opis

This collection of essays arises from a conference held at the University of Cape Town under the auspices of the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research. Leading international Holocaust scholars met to reflect on the ways their personal experiences influenced their professional trajectories over many decades of immersion in studies of the Holocaust. Participants examined changes and developments in the field within the context of their own personal odysseys, including shifting cultural milieus and robust academic conflicts. Meeting in South Africa provided a special ambience as the country had emerged only two decades earlier from a race-based system defined by the United Nations as a crime against humanity. The massive corpus of scholarly engagement with the Holocaust - with reverberations across the globe - has ensured that its study today is paradigmatic for scholars exploring genocide, as well as perpetrators and victims of antisemitism, racism, and the Second World War.

Spis treści

Introduction
1. Autobiography, Experience and the Writing of History; Steven E. Aschheim
2. From Johannesburg to Warsaw: An Ideological Journey; Antony Polonsky
3. The Personal Contexts of a Holocaust Historian: War, Politics, Trials, and Professional Rivalry; Christopher R. Browning
4. Autobiographical Reflections on Writing History, the Holocaust, and Hairdressing; David Cesarani
5. On the Holocaust and Comparative History; Steven T. Katz
6. Historiosophy as a Response to Catastrophe: Studying Nazi Christians as a Jew; Susannah Heschel
7. Pastors and Professors: Assessing Complicity and Unfolding Complexity; Robert P. Ericksen
8. Protestants, Catholics, Mennonites, and Jews: Identities and Institutions in Holocaust Studies; Doris L. Bergen
9. My Wrestling with the Holocaust; Karl A. Schleunes
10. ' 'Lessons ' ' of the Holocaust and the Ceaseless, Discordant Search for Meaning; Michael R. Marrus
11. Apartheid and the Herrenvolk Idea; David Welsh
12. Echoes of Nazi Antisemitism in South Africa during the 1930s and 1940s; Milton Shain

O autorze

Steven E. Aschheim, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University, USA David Cesarani, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Steven T. Katz, Boston University, USA Robert P. Ericksen, Pacific Lutheran University, USA Doris L. Bergen, University of Toronto, Canada Karl A. Schleunes, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA David Welsh, Stellenbosch University, South Africa