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Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding

By (author) Alon Confino

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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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Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Published date | 30 Sep 2011
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 192
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 280g
ISBN | 978-0-5217-3632-9
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BISAC | history / holocaust

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