| 书目名称 | Holocaust Scholarship | | 副标题 | Personal Trajectorie | | 编辑 | Christopher R. Browning,Susannah Heschel,Milton Sh | | 视频video | | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | Leading international Holocaust scholars reflect upon their personal experiences and professional trajectories over many decades of immersion in the field. Changes are examined within the context of individual odysseys, including shifting cultural milieus and robust academic conflicts. | | 出版日期 | Book 2015 | | 关键词 | Holocaust; Holocaust Debates; South Africa; Nazism; Africa; antisemitism; history | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137514196 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-137-51419-6 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015 |
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,Introduction, |
Christopher R. Browning,Susannah Heschel,Michael R. Marrus,Milton Shain |
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It has become a truism to talk of history as ‘an argument without an end’, a phrase coined by the distinguished Dutch historian Pieter Geyl. By its very nature, history is deeply contested and will always be rewritten as new documents, new questions and new perspectives ensure an ongoing debate. Historical facts too are not self-evident, as was explained the Cambridge historian E.H. Carr nearly 50 years ago, but interact in one way or another with the historian’s life experience. ‘Study the historian before you begin to study the facts’, Carr famously advised.. Both Carr’s and Geyl’s observations come to mind in this collection of essays that arises from a conference held in 2012 at the University of Cape Town under the auspices of the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research. Leading international Holocaust scholars met to reflect upon their personal experiences and professional trajectories over many decades of immersion in the field.
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,Autobiography, Experience and the Writing of History, |
Steven E. Aschheim |
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I suppose I should begin with a caveat. This volume is about ‘Holocaust Scholarship’, but I am not strictly speaking a Holocaust scholar. My field is much more concentrated on European — especially German and Jewish — cultural and intellectual history. Still, in many explicit but also subtly implicit ways, the . has impinged deeply both on my ‘personal trajectory and professional interpretations’ — just as its ideological exploitation has increasingly become a source of disturbance and, at times, even anger. But this will become clearer only in terms of relating the larger story and context of the link between biography and work.
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,From Johannesburg to Warsaw: An Ideological Journey, |
Antony Polonsky |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson has said that all history is autobiography. More than 50 years ago, I came to Warsaw on a bleak December day as a British Council exchange student to undertake research for my doctorate at the University of Oxford on the conflict between Józef Pilsudski and the Polish Parliament between 1926 and 1930 in the Historical Institute of Warsaw University. What brought me there? I did not come from a Polish-speaking background. My mother’s family were Russified Jews from Lithuania and my father’s were Yiddish-speakers from Grodno. They both emigrated to South Africa at the end of the nineteenth century. I grew up in very comfortable conditions in postwar South Africa. I soon became aware of the deep racial divisions in that society and came to feel considerable guilt at my parents’ lifestyle, dependent as it was on African servants, whom they, as representatives of the liberal section of the English-speaking minority — friends of Helen Suzman, supporters of the Progressive Party — treated with, as they thought, great benevolence and in my eyes extreme paternalism.
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,The Personal Contexts of a Holocaust Historian: War, Politics, Trials and Professional Rivalry, |
Christopher R. Browning |
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The single most predictable and consistently repeated question that I face when giving public presentations is quite simple: why and how did I become a Holocaust historian? The answer to that question is fundamentally autobiographical, but it is not the only point in my career when my personal experiences have provided an important context for understanding my professional development. Looking back, I think four particular factors — the Vietnam War, Watergate politics, serving as an expert witness in various trials, as well as the usual professional debates and rivalries — have provided crucial context for understanding key points in the development of my career as a Holocaust historian. I would like to explore some of the major developments in Holocaust historiography through the lens of my own personal experience.
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,Autobiographical Reflections on Writing History, the Holocaust and Hairdressing, |
David Cesarani |
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In February 2006, I went to Buckingham Palace to be presented with the Order of the British Empire for services to Holocaust education and commemoration. From his seat in the audience, my father watched as Her Majesty the Queen attached the medal to the lapel of my rather splendid morning suit, specially hired for the day. I mention this not out of a sense of vanity or overweening pride, but because the events of that day were so unexpected and unpredictable. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, who like his father had worked as a ladies’ hairdresser, and held left-wing views all his life. I grew up in a suburb of north-west London with a significant Jewish population, but in a home in which Judaism was of marginal importance and the Soviet Union bulked larger than the State of Israel. I was drawn to Zionism, but through an involvement with the Zionist movement paradoxically became interested in the history of the Jews in Britain — the story of my community, my family and my own lifetime. Nothing pointed me in the direction of Holocaust history. So, precisely because it was at odds with where I started in life, the award serves as a useful departure point for exploring my
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,On the Holocaust and Comparative History, |
Steven T. Katz |
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In college — at Rutgers University, from which I graduated in 1966 — I studied philosophy and Jewish studies. In my senior year, I had the good fortune to be the Henry Rutgers Scholar and spent a portion of my time that year working with the great Jewish historian Salo Baron, who had retired from Columbia and was a visiting professor at Rutgers. My work with him concentrated on modern biblical studies and criticism.
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,Historiosophy as a Response to Catastrophe: Studying Nazi Christians as a Jew, |
Susannah Heschel |
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One of the earliest historians of the Holocaust, Philip Friedman, himself a survivor, wrote in 1958 that ‘every generation creates its own historiosophical doctrine as well as research methods compatible with its spirit’.. Note that Friedman does not use the term ‘historiography’, but rather ‘historiosophy’, a somewhat obscure term for the philosophy of history, but one brought into Jewish discourse by Gershom Scholem in his best-known book, ., published just a few years before Friedman’s book. In discussing sixteenth-century Lurianic mysticism’s myth of creation as divine catastrophe, Scholem argued that kabbalists were using metaphysics to reify historical reality. Friedman may have had the same understanding in his use of the term: historians do not simply describe or interpret an event; rather, they bring what is unknown or forgotten into reality. Such was certainly the case in Friedman’s day. He was one of the earliest historians of the Holocaust, and much of what he wrote about was unknown, suppressed or simply lost with the lives that had been extinguished. His careful research brought into reality events that had occurred, studying the Jews ‘not only as tragic victims but a
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,Pastors and Professors: Assessing Complicity and Unfolding Complexity, |
Robert P. Ericksen |
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Moment #1: in September 1980, I flew from Seattle to London and stayed in remarkably cheap accommodation off the Strand, not far from the decidedly more upscale Charing Cross Hotel. This was a residence reached by a narrow back alley pungent with unwelcome aromas. It cost me £2 a night, a very cheap price even then. The next day I appeared at the London School of Economics for the oral defence of my doctoral dissertation. I remember two things quite clearly. The first is that James Joll, my doctor father, started the proceedings by telling me I had passed. We would simply discuss a few ideas, plus where I should publish. My second distinct memory involves a question posed by my outside examiner from Oxford. Near the end of our conversation, he asked me whether Gerhard Kittel, a very important Professor of Theology at Tübingen University, could possibly have believed all those terrible things he said about Jews and all those wonderful things he said about Hitler. Was it not likely that he had acted under duress and said what needed to be said? Fortunately, James Joll had already indicated that my passing or failing did not hang in the balance. Therefore, I felt no anxiety in saying
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,Protestants, Catholics, Mennonites and Jews: Identities and Institutions in Holocaust Studies, |
Doris L. Bergen |
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The title of this chapter almost sounds like the beginning of a joke: ‘A Protestant, a Catholic, a Mennonite and a Jew walk into a bar.’ But then what? There is no punchline. Or if there is one, I do not know what it is. Freud would have something to say about the discomfort behind my impulse to start a discussion of ‘personal trajectory, professional interpretations’ with a joke. And, indeed, over the past 25 years, I have devoted considerable energy and time to the effort to convince people — above all, my students — that who you are (in the sense politely captured in Canada by the term ‘your background’) need not dictate what you think.
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,My Wrestling with the Holocaust, |
Karl A. Schleunes |
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My ‘wrestling with the Holocaust’ has taken me through more than 20 years of teaching a course on the subject and many more as a scholar attempting to understand how it could have happened. At its root, I have come to realize that this wrestling also has a deeply personal dimension. I have wrestled with the Holocaust as a teacher, a scholar and a human being — and have come to realize that the lines separating these dimensions are by no means clear. In each of these capacities, I have for the past five decades confronted a variety of issues, problems and situations.
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,‘Lessons’ of the Holocaust and the Ceaseless, Discordant Search for Meaning, |
Michael R. Marrus |
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How should those of us involved in Holocaust Scholarship respond to the invocation of ‘the lessons of the Holocaust’? We constantly hear about these lessons in public exhortations, commemorative speeches and educational programmes. Reference to them comes from public officials, dignitaries, clergymen, commentators and representatives of any number of good causes. We learn about them from presidents and heads of state, politicians and administrators, generals and university presidents, teachers and reviewers, human rights advocates and even fundraisers. They appear in textbooks, mission statements, annual reports, policy papers and, occasionally, political campaigns.
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,Apartheid and the , Idea, |
David Welsh |
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I was born in Cape Town and have lived here all my life, apart from two years at Oxford. My first degrees were obtained at the University of Cape Town (UCT), where I was fortunate enough to be taught by inspiring teachers, notably H.J. Simons, Monica Wilson and A.C. Jordan. My undergraduate years fell squarely within the apartheid era, and since the focus of my studies was largely concerned with governments and politics, together with African languages, my political awareness and, indeed, my involvement in politics increased. It was impossible for anyone with a sensitivity to the injustice of apartheid to remain detached from such involvement.
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,Echoes of Nazi Antisemitism in South Africa during the 1930s and 1940s, |
Milton Shain |
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My earliest political recollections date back to the arrival of Harold Macmillan in South Africa in 1960. During recess at our elementary school, I rushed with a classmate to the nearby Union Buildings to catch a glimpse of the British Prime Minister. One sensed that dramatic things were in the offing and indeed they were: a few days later, Macmillan delivered his famous ‘Wind of Change’ speech to South African parliamentarians. African emancipation from colonial rule appeared imminent. Yet in the immediate years after Macmillan’s visit, it was high school sport rather than politics that captured my attention. Of course, one knew that apartheid South Africa was fundamentally evil — and one was reminded of this from time to time by liberal teachers — but, for the most part, one’s privileged white life carried on uninterrupted. As a university student, however, I began to explore and examine the inequities and injustices based on race and legislation. Were these driven by class interests or simple racism? By the time I entered university, an exciting revisionist historiography was beginning to valorize the former, but, whether class or race, one could not avoid confronting racial pre
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