Screen LibraryA companion to the Holocaust /
"How we label things determines in part how we understand them. There is no name for the mass murder of European Jews in the 1940s that is not also simultaneously an interpretation. Final Solution, Holocaust, Shoah, Genocide: each of these implies a certain analysis of what happened and why. Th...
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Wiley,
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| Publisher Address: | Hoboken, NJ : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell companions to world history. |
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118970492 |
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"How we label things determines in part how we understand them. There is no name for the mass murder of European Jews in the 1940s that is not also simultaneously an interpretation. Final Solution, Holocaust, Shoah, Genocide: each of these implies a certain analysis of what happened and why. Thus the changing (and contested) names attached to the mass murder of European Jewry over the past seventy years also suggest shifts over time in how the event has been interpreted. Similarly, these names reflect a series of debates among historians about how best to analyze the destruction of Europe's Jews. Some of these debates have been more or less resolved, but many persist and seem likely to continue for the foreseeable future. It can thus hardly be the goal of this chapter to resolve these debates or to offer a definitive interpretation of the mass murder. Rather, I want to trace, in broad terms, the trajectory of Holocaust historiography from the first Jewish histories of the Holocaust to today in order to give a sense of where the historiography stands now and how it got here."-- |
| Item Description: | Description based on print version record. |
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1 online resource (704 pages). Also available in print. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781118970492 (electronic bk.) 9781118970522 |
| Index Number: | D804 |
| CLC: | K152 |
| Contents: | Part 1: New Orientations and Topical Integrations -- Framing chapter: Devin O. Pendas, 'Final Solution', Holocaust, Shoah, or Genocide? From Separate to Integrated Histories -- Cathie Carmichael, Raphael Lemkin and Genocide before the Holocaust: ethnic and religious minorities under attack -- Dan Stone, Ideologies of Race: the Construction and Suppression of Otherness in Nazi Germany -- William J. Spurlin, Queering Holocaust Studies: New Frameworks for Understanding Nazi Homophobia and the Politics of Sexuality under National Socialism -- Daniel Blatman, Holocaust as Genocide: Milestones in the Historiographical Discourse -- Part 2: Plunder, Extermination, and Prosecution -- Framing chapter: Edward B. Westermann, Old Nazis, Ordinary Men, and New Killers: Synthetic and Divergent Histories of Perpetrators -- Mark Spoerer, The Nazi War Economy, the Forced Labour System, and the Murder of Jewish and Non-Jewish Workers -- Waitman Wade Beorn, All the Other Neighbors: Communal Genocide in Eastern Europe -- Kim Christian Priemel, War Crimes Trials, the Holocaust and Historiography, 1943- -- Bianca Gaudenzi, Crimes against Culture: From Plunder to postwar Restitution Politics -- Part 3: Reframing Jewish Histories -- Framing chapter: Dan Michman, Characteristics of Holocaust Historiography and their Contexts since 1990: Emphases, Perceptions, Developments, Debates -- David Engel, A Sustained Civilian Struggle: Rethinking Jewish Responses to the Nazi regime -- Guy Miron, Ghettos and Ghettoization: History and Historiography -- Martin C. Dean, Survivors of the Holocaust within the Nazi Universe of Camps -- Natalia Aleksiun, Social Networks of Support: Trajectories of Escape, Rescue, and Survival -- Joanna B. Michlic, A Young Person's War: the Disrupted Lives of Children and Youth -- Elisabeth Gallas and Laura Jockusch, Anything But Silent: Jewish Responses to the Holocaust in the Aftermath of World War II -- Part 4: Local, mobile and transnational Holocausts -- Framing chapter: Tim Cole, Geographies of the Holocaust -- Gerhard L. Weinberg, The Global 'Final Solution' and Nazi Imperialism -- Susanne Heim, Refugees' Routes: Emigration, Resettlement, andTransmigration -- David A. Messenger, The Geo-politics of Neutrality: Diplomacy, Refuge and Rescue during the Holocaust -- Alejandro Baer and Pedro Correa, Spain and the Holocaust: Contested Past, Contested Present -- Esther Webman, Contesting the "Zionist" Narrative: Arab Responses to the Holocaust -- Aomar Boum, Re-drawing Holocaust Geographies: A Cartography of Vichy and Nazi Reach into North Africa -- Part 5: Witnessing in dialogue: testifiers, readers and viewers -- Framing chapter: Alan Rosen, The Holocaust Witness: Wartime and Postwar Voices -- Monika J. Flaschka, Sexual Violence: Recovering a Suppressed History -- Jonathan Druker, Ethical Grey Zones: On Coercion and Complicity in the Concentration Camp and Beyond -- Carol Zemel, Holocaust Photography and the Challenge of the Visual -- Nicholas Chare, Holocaust Memory in a Post-Survivor World: Bearing Lasting Witness -- Noah Shenker, Post Memory: Digital Testimony and the Future of Witnessing -- Part 6: Human rights and visual culture -- Framing chapter: Valerie He |