Second Generation

Andreas W. Daum is Professor of History at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has authored several books on German and international history. A former John F. Kennedy Fellow at Harvard University, he is the recipient of fellowships from, among others, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

“The contributions to this volume manage impressively to show the interconnections between life and work, describing the professional developments against the background of emigration as well as demonstrating the influence of the refugee experience on their historical works.” • Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft“This book sheds new light on a hitherto little-researched subject and will remain a standard work for years to come. It provides an admirable overview of the very heterogeneous second generation in the USA, and will certainly stimulate further research in the field.” • German Historical Institute London Bulletin“Especially the systematic approach turns the volume into an impressive stock-taking of a research area that should be examine further with innovative methods and original questions.” • H-Soz-Kult“This book represents a deeply personal, intellectually challenging, and historically important undertaking. I cannot recommend highly enough a book that packs so much learning and passion, tragedy and promise, between two covers.” • James Retallack, Professor of History, University of Toronto; Killam Research Fellow 2015-17“This volume brings together memoirs from key second-generation historians, reminiscences from colleagues and students, and a detailed reference section containing critical biographical and professional information. It is a valuable resource.” • Marion Deshmukh, George Mason University

• List of TablesPrefaceHartmut Lehmann and James J. SheehanIntroduction: Refugees from Nazi Germany as Historians: Origins and Migrations, Interests and IdentitiesAndreas W. DaumPART I: TESTIMONIESChapter 1. “It Needs Hardly Emphasis How Deeply My Own Generation, the Second, is Indebted to the First”Klemens von KlempererChapter 2. “A Wanderer between Several Worlds”Walter LaqueurChapter 3. External Events, Inner DrivesPeter ParetChapter 4. Not Exile, But a New LifeFritz SternChapter 5. History and Social Action beyond National and Continental BordersGeorg G. IggersChapter 6. Some Issues and Experiences in German-American Scholarly RelationsGerhard L. WeinbergChapter 7. Some Reflections on the Second GenerationHanna Holborn GrayChapter 8. A Life Between HomelandsPeter LoewenbergChapter 9. Out of GermanyRenate BridenthalPART II: APPROACHING THE SECOND GENERATIONChapter 10. The Second Generation: Émigré Historians of Modern Germany in Post-War AmericaCatherine EpsteinChapter 11. Thinking About the Second Generation ConceptuallyVolker R. BerghahnPART III: ÉMIGRÉS AND THE WRITING OF HISTORYChapter 12. The Tensions of Historical Wissenschaft: The Émigré Historians and the Making of German Cultural HistorySteven E. AschheimChapter 13. From the Margins to the Mainstream: Refugees and the Successors on the Jewish Questions, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust in German HistoryJeffrey HerfChapter 14. Reluctant Return: Peter Gay and the Cosmopolitan Work of a HistorianHelmut Walser SmithChapter 15. Out of the Limelight or In: Raul Hilberg, Gerhard Weinberg, Henry Friedlander, and the Historical Study of the HolocaustDoris L. BergenChapter 16. Blazing New Paths in Historiography: ‘Refugee Effect’ and American Experience in the Professional Trajectory of Gerda LernerMarjorie LambertiPART IV: COMPARATIVE AND TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVESChapter 17. German Émigré Historians in IsraelShulamit VolkovChapter 18. German and Austrian Émigré Historians in Britain after 1933Peter AlterChapter 19. The Second-Generation Émigrés’ Impact on German HistoriographyPhilipp StelzelChapter 20. Encounters with Émigré Historians of the First and Second GenerationGerhard A. RitterChapter 21. Influences: A Personal CommentJürgen KockaPART V: BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDEChapter 22. Émigrés in the Historical Disciplines: Research PerspectivesAndreas W. DaumChapter 23. BiographiesAndreas W. Daum and Sherry L. FöhrSelected BibliographyIndex