The essays in the tenth volume of Lessons and Legacies offer a sense of the issues that run through current thinking about the Holocaust and ideas about the different ways we engage with a broad range of sources. New sources ranging from traditional archival finds to microhistories accessible via newer technology infuse Holocaust research. At the same time, the fields of Holocaust research and Jewish studies have an increasing impact upon other disciplines. Overall, the editor and writers find that the integration of insights, methodologies, critiques, and questions from psychology, literary studies, visual arts, and other fields with those of history, political science, and other social sciences sharpens the tools of analysis. The essays in this volume testify to the evolution of the field of Holocaust studies and also indicate a future direction.|The essays in the tenth volume of Lessons and Legacies offer a sense of the issues that run through current thinking about the Holocaust and ideas about the different ways we engage with a broad range of sources. New sources ranging from traditional archival finds to microhistories accessible via newer technology infuse Holocaust research. At the same time, the fields of Holocaust research and Jewish studies have an increasing impact upon other disciplines. Overall, the editor and writers find that the integration of insights, methodologies, critiques, and questions from psychology, literary studies, visual arts, and other fields with those of history, political science, and other social sciences sharpens the tools of analysis. The essays in this volume testify to the evolution of the field of Holocaust studies and also indicate a future direction.
Contents Theodore Zev Weiss Foreword Sara R. Horowitz Introduction I Wartime Sources of Interpretation Gerhard L. Weinberg Another Look at Hitler and the Beginning of the Holocaust Ana Antic Police force under occupation: Serbian State Guard and Volunteers' Corps in the Holocaust Gershon Greenberg Jewish Mystical Thought (Kabbalah) Through the Holocaust Paul B. Jaskot ""Realism""? The Place of Images in Holocaust Studies II Rethinking Testimony Henry Greenspan Collaborative Interpretation of Survivors' Accounts: A Radical Challenge to Conventional Practice Gary Weissman Incapable of Revealing the Event: Elie Wiesel and the Reading of Memoir-Writing III Victimhood, Identity, Practice Cora Granata Political Upheaval and Shifting Identities: Holocaust Survivors in the Soviet Occupied Zone of Germany, 1945-1949 Joanna Beata Michlic The Aftermath and After: Memories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust Valerie Hébert From Nuremberg to Kigali: On the Necessity and Impossibility of Post-Atrocity Justice IV Art Matthew Girson Reflections, Traditions, and Representations From a Painting Studio Notes on Contributors|Contents Theodore Zev Weiss Foreword Sara R. Horowitz Introduction I Wartime Sources of Interpretation Gerhard L. Weinberg Another Look at Hitler and the Beginning of the Holocaust Ana Antic Police force under occupation: Serbian State Guard and Volunteers' Corps in the Holocaust Gershon Greenberg Jewish Mystical Thought (Kabbalah) Through the Holocaust Paul B. Jaskot ""Realism""? The Place of Images in Holocaust Studies II Rethinking Testimony Henry Greenspan Collaborative Interpretation of Survivors' Accounts: A Radical Challenge to Conventional Practice Gary Weissman Incapable of Revealing the Event: Elie Wiesel and the Reading of Memoir-Writing III Victimhood, Identity, Practice Cora Granata Political Upheaval and Shifting Identities: Holocaust Survivors in the Soviet Occupied Zone of Germany, 1945-1949 Joanna Beata Michlic The Aftermath and After: Memories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust Valerie Hébert From Nuremberg to Kigali: On the Necessity and Impossibility of Post-Atrocity Justice IV Art Matthew Girson Reflections, Traditions, and Representations From a Painting Studio Notes on Contributors