The Anatomy of the Holocaust: Selected Works from a Life of Scholarship / Edition 1

by Raul Hilberg, Walter H. Pehle, René Schlott

Overview

Though best known as the author of the landmark 1961 work The Destruction of the European Jews, the historian Raul Hilberg produced a variety of archival research, personal essays, and other works over a career that spanned half a century. The Anatomy of the Holocaust collects some of Hilberg’s most essential and groundbreaking writings—many of them published in obscure journals or otherwise inaccessible to nonspecialists—in a single volume. Supplemented with commentary and notes from Hilberg’s longtime German editor and his biographer, it not only offers a multifaceted look at the man and the scholar, but also traces the evolution of Holocaust research from a marginal subdiscipline into a diverse and vital intellectual project.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789203554
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	11/07/2019
Series:	Vermont Studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust , #8
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Raul Hilberg† was the founding scholar of Holocaust studies in the United States and the author of numerous publications, including the classic The Destruction of the European Jews. He taught political science at the University of Vermont from 1955 to 1991. He passed away in 2007.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Walter H. Pehle and René Schlott

Chapter 1. The Anatomy of the Holocaust
Chapter 2. German Motivations for the Destruction of the Jews
Chapter 3. The Bureaucracy of Annihilation
Chapter 4. The Significance of the Holocaust
Chapter 5. Incompleteness in Holocaust Historiography
Chapter 6. Bitburg as Symbol
Chapter 7. The Ghetto as a Form of Government
Chapter 8. The Judenrat: Conscious or Unconscious “Tool”
Chapter 9. I Was Not There
Chapter 10. The Holocaust Mission: July 29 to August 12, 1979
Chapter 11. In Search of the Special Trains
Chapter 12. Working on the Holocaust
Chapter 13. The Development of Holocaust Research: A Personal Overview

Index

Editorial Reviews

“With this compilation of essays and recollections, we […] once again come to know Hilberg as an immensely productive, curious and innovative historian.” • Süddeutsche Zeitung

“A volume of great humanity.” • Die Tageszeitung

 “[Hilberg was] undoubtedly the most important pioneer in the field of perpetrator research, all of whose topics and controversies he anticipated in their essence.” • H-Soz-Kult

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