The Jews, the Holocaust, and the Public: The Legacies of David Cesarani [Hardcover]

This book explores the work and legacy of Professor David Cesarani OBE, a leading British scholar and expert on Jewish history who helped to shape Holocaust research, remembrance and education in the UK. It is a unique combination of chapters produced by researchers, curators and commemoration activists who either worked with and/or were taught by the late Cesarani. The chapters in this collection consider the legacies of Cesaranis contribution to the discipline of history and the practice of public history. The contributors offer reflections on Cesaranis approach and provide new insights into the study of Anglo-Jewish history, immigrants and minorities and the history and public legacies of the Holocaust.

Introduction.- Introduction: The Lives and Legacies of David Cesarani.- David Cesarani: A Historian with Breadth, Depth, and the Flair of a Raconteur.- Minorities and Nationalisms.- Zionism and the British Labour Party.- History, Politics, and Nationalism in Ireland and Israel: Legacies of 1922 and 1948.- Remembering the Internment of 'enemy aliens' during the Second World War on the Isle of Man, and in Australia and Canada.- Perspectives on the Holocaust.- The Decision to Exterminate the Jews of Europe.- The 1940 Easter Pogrom in Warsaw from the Perspective of the Jewish Witnesses.- The Ideologue as Genocidaire: Alfred Rosenberg and the Murder of the Jews in the Soviet Union.- British and American Voluntary Organizations in Liberated Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp: An Unknown Story.- Nazi Crimes and their Legacies.- The United Kingdom War Crimes Investigation Teams after World War II.- Britain and the Eichmann Trial: An Unexamined Aspect in Bystander Studies.- In Advance of the Broken Image: Glx