Years of Persecution, Years of Extermination Saul Friedlander and the Future of Holocaust Studies

by Wiese, Christian; Betts, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781441129871
• ISBN10: 1441129871
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-17
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Historians have long been confronted with the conceptual and moral difficulties inherent in trying to narrate the magnitude and monstrosity of the Holocaust. The questions that bedevil all historical undertakings about capturing the past take on particular urgency in the face of the Holocaust: how can past events be properly explained, or even satisfactorily communicated? What is to be learned? And what is it exactly that we wish to know, and how best to try to narrate it?

Author Biography

Christian Wiese is Professor of Jewish History at the University of Sussex. His publications include The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas: Jewish Dimensions (2007). Paul Betts is Reader in History at the University of Sussex. His publications include Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth Century Germany (with Alon Confino and Dirk Schumann, 2008).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
An Integrated History of the Holocaust: Possibilities and Challenges	p. 21
The Holocaust as a Narrative Problem	p. 31
Narrative Form and Historical Sensation: On Saul Friedländer's The Years of Extermination	p. 33
Kaleidoscopic Writing: On Saul Friedländer's The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945	p. 55
Saul Friedländer, Holocaust Historiography and the Use of Testimony	p. 67
Holocaust Perpetrators in Victims' Eyes	p. 81
Raul Hilberg and Saul Friedländer - Two Perspectives on the Holocaust	p. 101
German Society and Redemptive Antisemitism	p. 115
National Socialism, Antisemitism and the ôFinal Solutionö	p. 117
Speaking in Public about the Murder of the Jews: What did Holocaust Mean to the Germans?	p. 133
An ôIndelible Stigmaö: The Churches between Silence, Ideological Involvement, and Political Complicity	p. 157
ôThe Ethics of a Truth-Seeking Judgeö: Konrad Morgen, SS Judge and Corruption Expert	p. 193
Mass Killing and Genocide	p. 211
Mass Killing and Genocide from 1914 to 1945: Attempting a Comparative Analysis	p. 213
Redemptive Antisemitism and the Imperialist Imaginary	p. 233
Murder amidst Collapse: Explaining the Violence of the Last Months of the Third Reich	p. 255
Opportunistic Killings and Plunder of Jews by their Neighbors - a Norm or an Exception in German Occupied Europe?	p. 269
Perspectives	p. 287
No End in Sight? The Ongoing Challenge of Producing an Integrated History of the Holocaust	p. 289
Towards an Integrated History of the Holocaust: Masculinity, Femininity, and Genocide	p. 311
The History of the Holocaust: Multiple Actors, Diverse Motives, Contradictory Developments and Disparate (Re)actions	p. 323
Nazi Germany and the Jews and the Future of Holocaust Historiography	p. 343
Index	p. 359
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