The politics of memory : the journey of a Holocaust historian / Raul Hilberg.
Raul Hilberg 1926-2007
Book| Title |
Raul Hilberg. |
|---|---|
| Host Item |
Yad Vashem Studies 35,2 (2007) 7-20 |
| Description |
Presents an obituary for Raul Hilberg (1926-2007) which is essentially an analysis of his historical research. His monograph "The Destruction of the European Jews" (1961) marked the birth of Holocaust studies as a legitimate field of academic study in the USA. A student of Franz Neumann, Hilberg was the first to portray the Holocaust not as a giant pogrom but rather as an administrative process carried out by bureaucrats who created a "machinery of destruction". In subsequent editions of the monograph, Hilberg not only used documents from newly opened archives, but also changed his interpretation of the Final Solution, developing his "consensus model". He began to stress the universal characteristics of the destruction process rather than its specifically German traits. Discusses, briefly, Hilberg's later works and their significance in regard to the development of his own views and of Holocaust research in general. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) English and Hebrew. |
| Language |
English |
| Credits |
באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center |
| National Library system number |
990004622170705171 |
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באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
MARC RECORDS
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