Years of Persecution, Years of Extermination: Saul Friedlander and the Future of Holocaust Studies / Edition 1

by Christian Wiese, Paul Betts

Overview

This volume provides an in-depth discussion of Saul Friedlander's landmark two-volume history of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany and the Jews. It brings together a range of internationally acclaimed historians to address the manifold conceptual and historiographical issues raised in Friedlander's monumental work. It includes a major essay by Friedlander himself on the challenges of producing an integrated history of the Holocaust. The aim of this book is not simply to evaluate Friedlander's work on its own merits, but rather to use his text as a means of exploring the contours and future of Holocaust historiography. The central concern is to situate his work within the broader terrain of Holocaust studies and European history, as well as to explore the ways in which his book opens up new directions in the knowledge, study and understanding of the Shoah in particular and twentieth century genocide in general.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441129871
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/17/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Christian Wiese holds the Martin Buber Chair in Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is the editor, together with Cornelia Wilhelm, of American Jewry: Transcending the European Experience? (Bloomsbury, 2016).

Table of Contents

Introduction - Paul Betts and Christian Wiese / i.An Integrated History of the Holocaust: Possibilities and Challenges - Saul Friedlander / Part I: The Holocaust as a Narrative Problem / ii. Narrative Form and Historical Sensation: On Friedlander's TheYears of Extermination - Alon Confino / iii. Kaleidoscopic Writing: On Friedlander's The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945 - Dan Diner / iv. Friedlander, Holocaust Historiography and the Use of Testimony - Tony Kushner / v. Holocaust Perpetrators in Victims' Eyes - Mark Roseman / vi. Raul Hilberg and Saul Friedlander: Two Perspectives on the Holocaust - Michael Wildt / Part II: German Society and Redemptive Antisemitism / vii. National Socialism, Antisemitism and the 'Final Solution' - Peter Pulzer / viii. Speaking in Public about the Murder of the Jews: What did the Holocaust mean to the Germans? - Nicholas Stargardt / ix. An 'Indelible Stigma' : The Churches between Silence, Ideological Involvement, and Political Complicity - Christian Wiese / x. 'The Ethics of a Truth-Seeking Judge': Konrad Morgen, SS Judge and Corruption Expert - Raphael Gross / Part III: Mass Killings and Genocide / xi. Mass Killing and Genocide from 1914 to 1945 - Alan Kramer / xii. Redemptive Antisemitism and the Imperialist Imaginary - A.Dirk Moses / xiii. Murder amidst Collapse: Explaining the Violence of the Last Months of the Third Reich - Richard Bessel / xiv. Opportunistic Killings and Plunder of Jews by their Neighbours: A Norm or an Exception in German Occupied Europe?- Jan T Gross / Part IV: Perspectives / xv. No End in Sight? The Ongoing Challenge of producing an Integrated History of the Holocaust - Doris L. Bergen / xvi. Towards an Integrated History of the Holocaust: Masculinity, Femininity and Genocide - Zoe V. Waxman / xvii.The History of the Holocaust: Multiple Actors, Diverse Motives, Contradictory Developments and Disparate (Re)actions - Wolf Gruner / xviii. Nazi Germany and the Jews and the Future of Holocaust Historiography - Dan Stone.