The Holocaust and Historical Methodology / / ed. by Dan Stone.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bergen, Doris L.,; Bloxham, Donald,; Confino, Alon,; Finchelstein, Federico,; Friedländer, Saul,; Goldberg, Amos,; Kansteiner, Wulf,; Moses, A. Dirk,; Moyn, Samuel,; Neumann, Boaz,; Rupnow, Dirk,; Rüsen, Jörn,; Stone, Dan,; Waxman, Zoë,; White, Hayden,
• HerausgeberIn: Stone, Dan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Making Sense of History ; 16
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as important for understanding the Holocaust—and, by extension, any past event—as is archival research. It aims to go beyond the dominant paradigm of political history and describe the emergence of methods now being used to reconstruct the past in the context of Holocaust historiography.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Series -- Introduction: The Holocaust and Historical Methodology -- Part I: Memory and Culture in the Third Reich -- Chapter 1. A World Without Jews: Interpreting the Holocaust -- Chapter 2. Holocaust Historiography and Cultural History -- Chapter 3. The Invisible Crime: Nazi Politics of Memory and Postwar Representation of the Holocaust -- Chapter 4. The History of the Jews in the Ghettos: A Cultural Perspective -- Chapter 5. National Socialism, Holocaust, and Ecology -- Part II: Testimony and Commemoration -- Chapter 6. Bearing Witness: Theological Roots of a New Secular Morality -- Chapter 7. Transcending History? Methodological Problems in Holocaust Testimony -- Chapter 8. Studying the Holocaust: Is History Commemoration? -- Part III: Another Look at a Classic of Holocaust Historiography -- Chapter 9. An Integrated History of the Holocaust: Some Methodological Challenges -- Chapter 10. Truth and Circumstance: What (If Anything) Can Be Properly Said about the Holocaust? -- Chapter 11. Modernist Holocaust Historiography: A Dialogue between Saul Friedländer and Hayden White -- Part IV: The Holocaust in the World -- Chapter 12. The Holocaust and European History -- Chapter 13. Fascism and the Holocaust -- Chapter 14. The Holocaust and World History: Raphael Lemkin and Comparative Methodology -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index