FOUNDATIONAL PASTS by Alon Confino ( 9780521736329 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

FOUNDATIONAL PASTS
THE HOLOCAUST AS HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDING

By:

Alon Confino

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0521736323

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9780521736329

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

30 September, 2011

Pages:

192

Description:

Compares Holocaust research with interpretations of the French Revolution to reveal new insights into what made the persecution of Jews possible.

Synopsis:

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.

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1 b/w illus.

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Cambridge University Press

Prizes:

Short-listed for Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research

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