Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
זמנים; רבעון להיסטוריה
Angaben zur Quelle:
53 (1995) 44-53
Keywords:
Jewish councils History 20th century
;
Jewish ghettos History
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
;
World War, 1939-1945 Conscript labor
;
Forced labor History 20th century
Abstract:
Aviad M. Kleinberg's response to Dan Diner's article contests his use of universal terms of rationality to explain history and human acts, such as the extermination of the Jews during the Holocaust, since the everyday life of human beings is full of contradictions. Rationality should be considered as a historical fact to be explained instead of as the method of explanation. Diner's response to Kleinberg clarifies his original article: his work on the epistemological meaning of the "Judenrats'" reactions to the Nazi policy explains their rational reactions, which were based on universal human responses, rather than relating to a particular Jewish historical experience. Diner defines the Nazi policy towards the Jews as counterrationality, since it did not relate to any experience which could have been rationalized by the Jews or explained by previously experienced events.
Description / Table of Contents:
קליינברג, אביעד. על רציונליות והשואה. שם 54 (1995) 115-116.
Description / Table of Contents:
דינר, דן. מחוץ לגבולות הדיסציפלינה. שם 55 (1996) 108.
Note:
Appeared in German as "Historisches Verstehen und Gegenrationalität; der Judenrat als erkenntnistheoretische Warte" in "Zivilisation und Barbarei" (1991) 307-321; in English as "Historical understanding and counterrationality; the 'Judenrat'" as epistemological vantage" in "Probing the Limits of Representation" (1992) 128-142 - see the English summary for that entry in Rambi.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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