Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Number of pages | 180 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781139031875 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780521516655 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jan 2011 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Arts and Humanities