Years of Persecution, Years of Extermination: Saul Friedlander and the Future of Holocaust Studies

by Christian Wiese (Editor), Paul Betts (Editor)

This volume provides an in-depth discussion of Saul Friedlander's landmark two-volume history of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany and the Jews. It brings together a range of internationally acclaimed historians to address the manifold conceptual and historiographical issues raised in Friedlander's monumental work. It includes a major essay by Friedlander himself on the challenges of producing an integrated history of the Holocaust. The aim of this book is not simply to evaluate Friedlander's work on its own merits, but rather to use his text as a means of exploring the contours and future of Holocaust historiography. The central concern is to situate his work within the broader terrain of Holocaust studies and European history, as well as to explore the ways in which his book opens up new directions in the knowledge, study and understanding of the Shoah in particular and twentieth century genocide in general.

Genres: Holocaust

384 pages, Paperback

First published October 19, 2009

Reviews

[Sabina · Rating 5 out of 5]

On évoque beaucoup la Shoah dans le monde contemporain. Il y a les politiques qui quasiement toujours instrumentalisent la mémoire, les intellectuels qui le plus souvent cherchent à reconduire une idéologie sans admettre qu'ils doivent la questionner à la lumière, à la nuit, de la Shoah, ou à tout le moins à sauver "quelque chose" comme si la Shoah n'avait pas été. Dans ce livre Saul Friedlander affronte la désespérance qu'a laissé la Shoah. Quiconque prétend penser, doit le lire...
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[Amneh Aronson · Rating 5 out of 5]

May be the most important book about the Shoah, because drive also a philosophical thought about the Idea of Humanity