Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding

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Cambridge University Press, 26 בספט׳ 2011
Alon Confino seeks to rethink dominant interpretations of the Holocaust by examining it as a problem in cultural history. As the main research interests of Holocaust scholars are frequently covered terrain – the anti-Semitic ideological campaign, the machinery of killing, the brutal massacres during the war – Confino's research goes in a new direction. He analyzes the culture and sensibilities that made it possible for the Nazis and other Germans to imagine the making of a world without Jews. Confino seeks these insights from the ways historians interpreted another short, violent and foundational event in modern European history – the French Revolution. The comparison of the ways we understand the Holocaust with scholars' interpretations of the French Revolution allows Confino to question some of the basic assumptions of present-day historians concerning historical narration, explanation and understanding.
 

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Introduction Edges of the Past
1
part one Thinking the Holocaust
15
2 A Dominant Interpretive Framework
37
3 Narrative Form and Historical Sensation
49
part two Thresholds and Limits of History
65
5 The Totality and Limits of Historical Context
83
6 Contingency the Essence of History
97
7 Ideology Race and Culture
118
Afterword
145
Notes
153
Index
177
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Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding
<span dir=ltr>Alon Confino</span>‏
אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2011
Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding
<span dir=ltr>Alon Confino</span>‏
אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2011

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מידע על המחבר (2011)

Alon Confino is a professor of history at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1993. He has written extensively and influentially on historical memory, historical method and German history. Among his books are The Nation As a Local Metaphor: Württemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871–1918 (1997) and Germany As a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History (2006). As a visiting professor, Confino has taught at the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and was recently a visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He has received grants from the Fulbright, Humboldt, DAAD, and Lady Davis foundations, the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University, the Social Science Research Council, the Israel Academy of Sciences, and the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

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כותרתFoundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding
מאתAlon Confino
הוצאהCambridge University Press, 2011
ISBN1139502182, 9781139502184
  
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