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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457361903321

Autore

Confino Alon

Titolo

Foundational pasts : the Holocaust as historical understanding / / Alon Confino [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-107-22423-3

1-139-15257-2

1-283-34100-X

1-139-16000-1

9786613341006

1-139-03187-2

1-139-16100-8

1-139-15544-X

1-139-15719-1

1-139-15895-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 180 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

940.53/18

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Causes

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Historiography

National socialism - Moral and ethical aspects

Antisemitism - Germany - History - 20th century

Germany History 1933-1945

Germany Ethnic relations History 20th century

Germany Politics and government 1933-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Thinking the Holocaust -- pt. II. Thresholds and Limits of History.

Sommario/riassunto

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.