The Holocaust and Historical Methodology [Hardcover]

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 Holocaustand, by extension, any past eventas 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.

Dan Stoneis Professor of Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His recent publications includeThe Historiography of Genocide(ed., 2008),Histories of the Holocaust(2010), andThe Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History(ed., 2012).

Introduction:The Holocaust and Historical Methodology
Dan Stone

PART I: MEMORY AND CULTURE IN THE THIRD REICH

Chapter 1.A World Without Jews: Interpreting the Holocaust
Alon Confino

Chapter 2.Holocaust Historiography and Cultural History
Dan Stone

Chapter 3.The Invisible Crime: Nazi Politics of Memory and Postwar Representations of the Holocaust
Dirk Rupnow

Chapter 4.The History of the Jews in the Ghettos: A Cultural Perspective
Amos Goldberg

Chapter 5.National Socialism, Holocaust and Ecology
Boaz Neumann

PART II: TESTIMONY AND COMMEMORATION

Chapter 6.Bearing Witness: Theological Roots of a New Secular Morality
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