Language:
English
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
35,2 (2007) 7-20
Keywords:
Hilberg, Raul,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
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.
Note:
English and Hebrew.
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