03479nam 22007572 450 991082720730332120151005020622.01-107-22423-31-139-15257-21-283-34100-X1-139-16000-197866133410061-139-03187-21-139-16100-81-139-15544-X1-139-15719-11-139-15895-3(CKB)2550000000066068(EBL)807150(OCoLC)763159189(SSID)ssj0000551311(PQKBManifestationID)11337064(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000551311(PQKBWorkID)10525016(PQKB)10425954(UkCbUP)CR9781139031875(MiAaPQ)EBC807150(Au-PeEL)EBL807150(CaPaEBR)ebr10514276(CaONFJC)MIL334100(EXLCZ)99255000000006606820141103d2011|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFoundational pasts the Holocaust as historical understanding /Alon Confino[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2011.1 online resource (xi, 180 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-73632-3 0-521-51665-X Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. I. Thinking the Holocaust -- pt. II. Thresholds and Limits of History.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.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)CausesHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)HistoriographyNational socialismMoral and ethical aspectsAntisemitismGermanyHistory20th centuryGermanyHistory1933-1945GermanyEthnic relationsHistory20th centuryGermanyPolitics and government1933-1945Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Causes.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Historiography.National socialismMoral and ethical aspects.AntisemitismHistory940.53/18HIS010000bisacshConfino Alon1665726UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910827207303321Foundational pasts4043259UNINA