Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His recent publications include The Historiography of Genocide (ed., 2008), Histories of the Holocaust (2010), and The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History (ed., 2012).

Introduction: The Holocaust and Historical Methodology
Dan Stone

PART I: MEMORY AND CULTURE IN THE THIRD REICH

Chapter 1. A World Without Jews: Interpreting the Holocaust
Alon Confino

Chapter 2. Holocaust Historiography and Cultural History
Dan Stone

Chapter 3. The Invisible Crime: Nazi Politics of Memory and Postwar Representations of the Holocaust
Dirk Rupnow

Chapter 4. The History of the Jews in the Ghettos: A Cultural Perspective
Amos Goldberg

Chapter 5. National Socialism, Holocaust and Ecology
Boaz Neumann

PART II: TESTIMONY AND COMMEMORATION

Chapter 6. Bearing Witness: Theological Roots of a New Secular Morality
Samuel Moyn

Chapter 7. Transcending History? Methodological Problems in Holocaust Testimony
Zoë Waxman

Chapter 8. Studying the Holocaust: Is History Commemoration?
Doris L. Bergen

PART III: ANOTHER LOOK AT A CLASSIC OF HOLOCAUST HISTORIOGRAPHY

Chapter 9. An Integrated History of the Holocaust: Some Methodological Challenges
Saul Friedländer

Chapter 10. Truth and Circumstance: What (If Anything) Can Be Properly Said about the Holocaust?
Hayden White

Chapter 11. Modernist Holocaust Historiography: A Dialogue between Saul Friedländer and Hayden White
Wulf Kansteiner

PART IV: THE HOLOCAUST IN THE WORLD

Chapter 12. The Holocaust and European History
Donald Bloxham

Chapter 13. Fascism and the Holocaust
Federico Finchelstein

Chapter 14. The Holocaust and World History: Raphael Lemkin and Comparative Methodology
A. Dirk Moses

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Contributors
Index

In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as important for understanding the Holocaust-and, by extension, any past event-as is archival research. It aims to go beyond the dominant paradigm of political history and describe the emergence of methods now being used to reconstruct the past in the context of Holocaust historiography.