Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding Alon Confino

Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding

Author: Alon Confino
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Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding
Author
Alon Confino
ISBN
9780521736329
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.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Alon ConfinoPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 09/30/2011ISBN: 9780521736329Pages: 180Weight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.33w x 0.49d
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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Alon Confino
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/30/2011
ISBN: 9780521736329
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.33w x 0.49d
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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Alon Confino
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/30/2011
ISBN: 9780521736329
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.33w x 0.49d