German Jews in the Era of the “Final Solution” : : Essays on Jewish and Universal History / / Otto Dov Kulka.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• VerfasserIn: Kulka, Otto Dov,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2019]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XV, 341 p.)

These essays, written in the course of half a century of research and thought on German and Jewish history, deal with the uniqueness of a phenomenon in its historical and philosophical context. Applying the "classical" empirical tools to this unprecedented historical chapter, Kulka strives...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Foreword
• Editorial Note
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Reflections on Jewish Studies, the Jerusalem School and the Research on the Era of the “Final Solution”
• I. German Jewry under the National Socialism in Historical Perspective
• 1. German Jewry under the National Socialism in Historical Perspective
• 2. History and Historical Consciousness. Similarities and Dissimilarities in the History of German and Czech Jews 1918–1945
• II. Modern Antisemitism and the Ideology of the “Final Solution”
• 3. Critique of Judaism in European Thought. On the Historical Meaning of Modern Antisemitism
• 4. Richard Wagner and the Origins of the Redemptive Antisemitism
• 5. Uniqueness in Context. Review of Ian Kershaw, To Hell and Back: Europe 1914–1949
• III. German Society and the Jews under the Nazi Regime
• 6. Popular Opinion in Nazi Germany and the “Jewish Question”
• 7. German Population in Nazi Germany as a Factor in the Policy of the “Solution of the Jewish Question”: The Nuremberg Laws and the Reichskristallnacht
• 8. German Population and the “Solution of the Jewish Question” at the Time of the Wannsee Conference
• IV. Jewish Society and its Leadership in Nazi Germany
• 9. Jewish Society in Germany as Reflected in Secret Nazi Reports on Popular Opinion 1933–1943
• 10. The Reichsvereinigung and the Fate of the Jews. Continuity or Discontinuity in German- Jewish History in the Third Reich
• 11. Ghetto in an Annihilation Camp. Jewish Social History in the Years of the “Final Solution” and its Ultimate Limits
• V. Historiography of the National Socialism and the “Final Solution”
• 12. Major Trends and Tendencies in German Historiography on National Socialism and the “Final Solution” 1924–1984
• 13. Singularity and its Relativization. Changing Views in German Historiography on National Socialism and the “Final Solution”
• 14. The Historikerstreit from a Personal Retrospective. On the “Case Nolte” and his Generation
• VI. In Search of History and Memory
• 15. In Search of History and Memory. Excerpts from Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death
• Annotated References
• Index of Names and Places