Language:
English
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
CCAR Journal; a Reform Jewish Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
42,2 (1995) 1-15
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
A revised version of a lecture delivered at the United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio, October 1994. Surveys the evolution of historiography on the Holocaust. Considers that the first depiction of the complex institutional basis of the Holocaust emerged as a result of the Nuremberg Trials, followed by the impact of the Eichmann trial and the "second generation" of scholarship represented by Hilberg's "The Destruction of European Jewry" and Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem", aiming to explore the nature of the Nazi bureaucracy. The "third generation" of the 1970s (e.g. Yehuda Bauer, Lucy Dawidowicz) focused on the role of individuals, the Jewish resistance, and how the Holocaust functioned on an individual level. Mentions the 1980s debate in West Germany between "functionalists" and "intentionalists." Concludes that we are now beginning to see the Holocaust not as a monolithic evil, but as an event deeply implicit in our very being as humans.
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