Holocaust and Historical Methodology

Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His recent publications include The Historiography of Genocide (ed., 2008), Histories of the Holocaust (2010), and The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History (ed., 2012).

"Most of the thoughtful papers, by scholars in Britain, Germany, Canada, the US, Israel, and elsewhere, seek to put the Holocaust in a broad cultural European and even worldwide perspective. The pivotal figure is Saul Friedlander, whose acclaimed books on the Holocaust incorporated testimonies of the victims together with meticulous analysis of the methods of extermination. Another important theme focuses on historians' moral sensitivity to what is now recognized as a paradigmatic genocide, in relation to dispassionate scholarly objectivity in evaluating sources and the literary qualities of historical narrative. Far too sophisticated for most college students, the collection is for their teachers and for historians involved in the study of 20th-century European and Jewish history." * Choice "This volume of essays makes a valuable contribution to theory in a field thickly populated with empirical work. Well indexed and containing both informative notes and a superb bibliography of Holocaust historiography, it will be well used by both faculty and students." * Histoire sociale/Social history "This book is timely and necessary and often extremely challenging. It brings together an impressive cast of scholars, spanning several academic generations - Anyone interested in writing about the Holocaust should read this book and consider the implications of what is written here for their own work. There seems to me little doubt that Holocaust history writing stands at something of a cross roads, and the ways forward that this volume points to are extremely thought provoking." * Tom Lawson, University of Winchester

• 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 Samuel Moyn Chapter 7. Transcending History? Methodological Problems in Holocaust Testimony Zoe Waxman Chapter 8. Studying the Holocaust: Is History Commemoration? Doris L. Bergen PART III: ANOTHER LOOK AT A CLASSIC OF HOLOCAUST HISTORIOGRAPHY Chapter 9. An Integrated History of the Holocaust: Some Methodological Challenges Saul Friedlander Chapter 10. Truth and Circumstance: What (If Anything) Can Be Properly Said about the Holocaust? Hayden White Chapter 11. Modernist Holocaust Historiography: A Dialogue between Saul Friedlander and Hayden White Wulf Kansteiner PART IV: THE HOLOCAUST IN THE WORLD Chapter 12. The Holocaust and European History Donald Bloxham Chapter 13. Fascism and the Holocaust Federico Finchelstein Chapter 14. The Holocaust and World History: Raphael Lemkin and Comparative Methodology A. Dirk Moses Select Bibliography Contributors Index