Historiography of the Holocaust

DAN STONE is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century European History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Breeding Superman: Nietzsche, Race and Eugenics in Edwardian and Interwar Britain (Liverpool University Press, 2002), Constructing the Holocaust: A Study in Historiography (Vallentine Mitchell, 2003) and Responses to Nazism in Britain, 1933-1939: Before War and Holocaust (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).

'A remarkable, pathbreaking achievement. More than half a century after Auschwitz a group of largely young academics, all experts in the fields of their scholarship, render a critical and comprehensive account on the Historiography of the Holocaust. The monumental study is a must for everyone engaged in Holocaust research, teaching and education. It sets the tone for future debate both at public and academic level.' - Konrad Kwiet, Adjunct Professor for Jewish Studies and Roth Lecturer in Holocaust Studies, University of Sydney, Australia 'Dan Stone is to be congratulated for having brought together an exceptionally nuanced, sophisticated, and well-focused collection of essays from a wide range of disciplines and national perspectives. Eminent specialists are well represented here, as are the newer insights of a younger generation of scholars. The end-result offers an excellent survey of virtually the whole range of historical thinking and writing in Holocaust Studies today. This is the book for anyone who is looking for a state-of-the-art, authoritative handbook; it will be read and re-read.' - Professor Jonathan Webber, UNESCO Chair in Jewish and Interfaith Studies, University of Birmingham, UK 'The Historiography of the Holocaust will undoubtedly become a standard work, indispensable for those teaching in the field...Dan Stone's edited volume will provide a compass for those entering the field and a standard of excellence for those interested in historiography in general and the Holocaust in particular.' - Milton Shain, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies '[A] remarkable, path breaking achievement. More than half a century after Auschwitz a group of largely young academics, all experts in the fields of their scholarship, render a critical and comprehensive account on the historiography of the Holocaust. This monumental study is a must for everyone engaged in Holocaust research, teaching and education. It sets the tone for future debate at both public and academic level.' - Konrad Kwiet, Adjunct Professor for Jewish Studies and Roth Lecturer in Holocaust Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia 'Dan Stone is to be congratulated for having brought together an exceptionally nuanced, sophisticated, and well-focused collection of essays from a wide range of disciplines and national perspectives. Eminent specialists are well represented here, as are the newer insights of a younger generation of scholars. The end-result offers an excellent survey of virtually the whole range of historical thinking and writing in Holocaust Studies today. This is the book for anyone who is looking for a state-of-the art, authoritative handbook; it will be read and re-read.' - Jonathan Webber, UNESCO Chair in Jewish and Interfaith Studies, Department of Theology, University of Birmingham, UK

• Notes on Contributors Introduction; D.Stone German or Nazi Antisemitism?; O.Heilbronner Hitler and the Third Reich; J.Noakes Ghettoization; T.Cole War, Occupation and the Holocaust in Poland; D.Pohl Expropriation and Expulsion; F.Bajohr Local Collaboration in the Holocaust in Eastern Europe; M.Dean Big Business and the Third Reich: An Appraisal of the Historical Arguments; C.Kobrak & A.H.Schneider The Decision-Making Process; C.R.Browning Historiography and the Perpetrators of the Holocaust; J.Matthäus The Topography of Genocide; A.Charlesworth Britain, the United States and the Holocaust: In Search of a Historiography; T.Kushner The Holocaust and the Soviet Union; J.Klier The German Churches and the Holocaust; R.P.Ericksen & S.Heschel Jewish Leadership in Extremis ; D.Michman Jewish Resistance; R.Rozett Gender and the Family; L.Pine Romanies and the Holocaust: A Re-evaluation and an Overview; I.Hancock From Streicher to Sawoniuk: The Holocaust in the Courtroom; D.Bloxham The Holocaust Under Communism; T.C.Fox Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial in Post-Communist Eastern Europe; F.Lobont Post-Holocaust Philosophy; J.Cohen Testimony and Representation; Z.Waxman Memory, Memorials and Museums; D.Stone The Holocaust and Genocide; A.D.Moses Index