Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 325 Seiten
Edition:
Paperback edition
Year of publication:
2019
Series Statement:
Studies on war and genocide 24
Series Statement:
Studies on war and genocide
Keywords:
Schoa
Abstract:
How does scale affect our understanding of the Holocaust? In the vastness of its implementation and the sheer amount of death and suffering it produced, the genocide of Europe’s Jews presents special challenges for historians, who have responded with work ranging in scope from the world-historical to the intimate. In particular, recent scholarship has demonstrated a willingness to study the Holocaust at scales as focused as a single neighborhood, family, or perpetrator. This volume brings together an international cast of scholars to reflect on the ongoing microhistorical turn in Holocaust studies, assessing its historiographical pitfalls as well as the distinctive opportunities it affords researchers.
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