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Authors | Alon Confino |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Year | 2011 |
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ISBN-13 | 9780521736329 |
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Pages | 192 |
Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding
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Authors | Alon Confino |
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Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Year | 2011 |
Pages | 192 |
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.