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2. COMMEMORATION OF THE LIFE OF ALON CONFINO SCHEDULED FOR SEPT. 20

Subjects
Anniversaries, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

AMHERST, Mass. -- The following information was released by the University of Massachusetts - Amherst: The Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies (IHGMS) invites the campus community to gather [...]

Published
2024

3. Alon Confino, Foundational pasts: the Holocaust as historical understanding (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and A world without Jews: the Nazi imagination from persecution to genocide (Yale University Press, 2014).

Author

Goldberg, Amos, Smith, Helmut Walser, Gigliotti, Simone, Buggeln, Marc, and Confino, Alon

Subjects
*HISTORIOGRAPHY of the Holocaust, 1939-1945, *NAZI persecution, *NATIONAL socialism, *ANTISEMITISM
Abstract

A literary criticism of the books "Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding" and "A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination From Persecution to Genocide" by Alon Confino is presented. The books focus on Holocaust historiography and antisemitic views of people during the Nazi regime in Germany. The author talks about Nazi racial discourse, Nazi persecution and relations between the Jews and Christians in Germany.

Published
2016
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4. The Creation of a World Freed from Jews.

Author

Weber, Thomas

Subjects
LITERARY characters, HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945, NAZI persecution, ANTISEMITISM
Abstract

A literary criticism of the book "World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide" by Alon Confino is presented. It outlines the characters and explores the significance of these characters. It examines various topics including Holocaust, Nazi revolution and anti-Semitism. An overview of the story is also given.

Published
2015

5. Somber Historiographies: the French Revolution, the Holocaust and Alon Confino's Concept of Foundational Pasts.

Author

Steinberg, Ronen

Subjects
HISTORIOGRAPHY of world history, FRENCH Revolution, 1789-1799, HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945, VIOLENCE, GENOCIDE, JEWS, CRIME victims
Abstract

An essay is presented on the French Revolution and its relation with the Holocaust, and historian Alon Confino's concept of foundational pasts. Topics discussed in the essay include Confino's argument that the French Revolution and the Holocaust create foundational pasts; Confino's study on the association between the French Revolution and mass violence; and Confino's views on the genocide of the Jews under the Nazi leadership.

Published
2014

6. THE HOLOCAUST IS OVER?[I would li].

Author

Garbarini, Alexandra

Subjects
*HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945, *HOLOCAUST survivors, *NONFICTION
Abstract

ABSTRACT Alon Confino has issued a desideratum to other historians that they should bring questions and insights from cultural history to bear on the study of the Holocaust. Taking the work of Saul Friedländer as his point of departure, Confino nonetheless sets out on a path different from Friedländer's. He turns away from the goal of 'integrated history' and instead seeks to investigate the realm of German culture, understood as encompassing much more than just Nazi ideology. By analyzing how the Holocaust has come to be perceived as unprecedented, as a rupture in human history, and furthermore by treating Jewish victims' sense of disbelief as an artifact of the past, one that has continued to inform unduly the historical understanding of the Holocaust up to the present day, historians will be able to account anew for what made the persecution and extermination of Jews imaginable and thus possible. With Confino's approach, a major historiographical question resurfaces, however: namely, what place an analysis of non-Germans should occupy in the history of the Holocaust, and in particular what place should be accorded to Jewish voices? This essay argues that we cannot make sense of why Germans supported and carried out the Holocaust without also considering Jewish contemporaneous perspectives and imaginings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2014
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7. Cultural History and the Holocaust.

Subjects
*HISTORIOGRAPHY of the Holocaust, 1939-1945, *HISTORIOGRAPHY
Abstract

An interview with historians Monica Black, Jennifer Evans, Alon Confino, Jack Halberstam, Regina Mülhäuser, and Jürgen Zimmerer is presented. They discuss the ways in which cultural history has influenced scholarly discourse on the Jewish Holocaust of 1939-1945. Topics include oral history, the role of the Third Reich in German historiography, and European colonialism.

Published
2013
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8. Between society and culture: new approaches to twentieth-century German history.

Author

Biess, Frank

Subjects
*BOOKS, *NONFICTION, REVIEWS
Abstract

The article presents a review of several books about German history including "The Work of Memory. New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture," by Alon Confino and Peter Fritzsche and "Pain and Prosperity. Reconsidering Twentieth Century German History," by Paul Betts and Greg Eghigian.

Published
2007
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9. Why the Nazis Burned the Hebrew Bible.

Author

Confino, Alon

Subjects
*BOOK burning, *KRISTALLNACHT, 1938, *HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945, *NAZI Germany, 1933-1945
Abstract

The article discusses the burning of the Hebrew Bible, or Torah, by the German Nazis, adapted from the book, "A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide" by Alon Confino. Topics discussed include Kristallnacht, also known as the Night of Broken Glass, the Jewish Holocaust, and the beliefs of the Third Reich, which is a term used to describe Germany from 1933-1945.

Published
2014

12. A Biblical theory of the Holocaust

Author

Meyer, Karl E.

Subjects
Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies, General interest
Abstract

A WORLD WITHOUT JEWS: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide Alon Confino Yale University Press. 2014, pp. 284, $30.00 No topic in history has provoked a greater outpouring of [...]

Published
2015

13. Contributors.

Subjects
*AUTHORS
Abstract

Brief profiles of scholars Alon Confino, Sara Jones, and Johannes Heuman, who contributed to the writing of the journal, are presented.

Published
2015
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21. Book Reviews.

Subjects
*NONFICTION
Abstract

The article presents reviews of several books including "Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany," edited by Alon Confino, Paul Betts and Dirk Schumann, "Elly und Alexander: Revolution, Rotes Berlin, Flucht, Exil-eine Sozialistische Familiengeschichte," by Hanna Papanek and "Red Prometheus: Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990," by Dolores L. Augustine.

Published
2009
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23. MEMORY AND NORMALITY.

Author

Rieger, Bernhard

Subjects
*NONFICTION, *HISTORIOGRAPHY
Abstract

The article reviews the book "Germany As a Culture of Memory: Promises and Limits of Writing History," by Alon Confino.

Published
2008
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24. BOOKS IN SUMMARY.

Subjects
*NONFICTION
Abstract

Book reviewed in this issue. Artifice and Design: Art and Technology in Human Experience. by Barry Allen. Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany. Edited by Alon Confino, Paul Betts, and Dirk Schumann. Reading Primary Sources: The Interpretation of Texts from Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century History. Edited by Miriam Dobson and Benjamin Ziemann. In the Light of Medieval Spain: Islam, the West, and the Relevance of the Past. Edited by Simon R. Doubleday and David Coleman. Diasporas. by Stéphane Dufoix. Was Ist Geschichte? Aktuelle Entwicklungstendenzen von Geschichtsphilosophie und Geschichtswissenschaft. Edited by Wolfgang Eichhorn and Wolfgang Küttler. Past in the Making: Historical Revisionism in Central Europe after 1989. Edited by Michal Kopeček. Time and History: The Variety of Cultures. Edited by Jörn Rüsen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2008
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26. Griff nach der Deutungsmacht: Zur Geschichte der Geschichtspolitik in Deutschland/Histories and Memories of Twentieth-Century Germany/Germany's Two Unifications: Anticipations, Experiences, Responses.

Author

Berger, Stefan

Subjects
*NONFICTION
Abstract

The article reviews several books including "Griff nach der Deutungsmacht: Zur Geschichte der Geschichtspolitik in Deutschland," edited by Heinrich August Winkler, "Histories and Memories of Twentieth-Century Germany," edited by Alon Confino, and "Germany's Two Unifications: Anticipations, Experiences, Responses," edited by John Breuilly and Ronald Speirs.

Published
2007
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28. The Processes of Collective Memory Research.

Author

Wolfgram, Mark A.

Subjects
*NONFICTION
Abstract

The article reviews the books "Germany As a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History," by Alon Confino and "In Pursuit of German Memory: History, Television, and Politics After Auschwitz," by Wulf Kansteiner.

Published
2007
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29. Book Reviews.

Author

Mcintosh, Terence, Kugeler, Heidrun, Brophy, James M., Lerman, Katharine Anne, Steinhoff, Anthony J., Jefferies, Matthew, Meir, Natan M., Chickering, Roger, Hiden, John, Bergen, Doris, Caplan, Jane, Moeller, Robert G., Donson, Andrew, and Betts, Paul

Subjects
*WAR & society, *NONFICTION
Abstract

The article reviews several books about the cultural, military and economic history of Germany including "The Peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487-1726: A Rural Society in Early Modern Europe," by Govind P. Sreenivasan, "The German Economy during the Nineteenth Century," by Toni Pierenkemper and Richard Tilly, "Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany," by Isabel V. Hull, "Hitler's Prisons. Legal Terror in Nazi Germany," by Nikolaus Wachsmann, and " The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture," edited by Alon Confino and Peter Fritzsche.

Published
2006
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30. The Nation as a Local Metaphor/Colonial Fantasies (Book).

Author

Buschmann, Rainer

Subjects
NATION As a Local Metaphor, The (Book), CONFINO, Alon, COLONIAL Fantasies (Book), ZANTOP, Susanne
Abstract

Reviews the books 'The Nation as a Local Metaphor: Wurttemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871-1918,' by Alon Confino and 'Colonial Fantasies: Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870,' by Susanne Zantop.

Published
2002
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48. Exile as Reality and Metaphor.

Subjects
*PERIODICALS
Abstract

An excerpt from an article by Alon Confino, published in the fall 2005 issue of the periodical "The Hedgehog Review," is presented.

Published
2006

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