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The second generation : émigrés from Nazi Germany as historians
Title
The second generation : émigrés from Nazi Germany as historians / edited by Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, and James J. Sheehan.
ISBN
9781782389859
1782389857
9781782389934
Publication
New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Copyright Notice Date
©2016
Physical Description
xiii, 473 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes
"With a biobibliographic guide."
Summary
"Of the thousands of children and young adults who fled Nazi Germany in the years before the Second World War, a remarkable number went on to become trained historians in their adopted homelands. By placing autobiographical testimonies alongside historical analysis and professional reflections, this richly varied collection comprises the first sustained effort to illuminate the role these men and women played in modern historiography. Focusing particularly on those who settled in North America, Great Britain, and Israel, it culminates in a comprehensive, meticulously researched biobibliographical guide that provides a systematic overview of the lives and works of this 'second generation'"--From publisher's website.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 03, 2016
Series
Studies in German history ; volume 20
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface / by Hartmut Lehmann and James J. Sheehan
Introduction: Refugees from Nazi Germany as historians : origins and migrations, interests and identities / Andreas W. Daum
Part I. Testimonies
"It needs hardly emphasis how deeply my own generation, the second, is indebted to the first" / Klemens von Klemperer
"A wanderer between several worlds" / Walter Laqueur
External events, inner drives / Peter Paret
Not exile, but a new life / Fritz Stern
History and social action beyond national and continental borders / Georg G. Iggers
Some issues and experiences in German-American scholarly relations / Gerhard L. Weinberg
Some reflections on the second generation / Hanna Holborn Gray
A life between homelands / Peter Loewenberg
Out of Germany / Renate Bridenthal
Part II. Approaching the second generation
The second generation : émigré historians of modern Germany in post-war America / Catherine Epstein
Thinking about the second generation conceptually / Volker R. Berghahn
Part III. Emigrés and the writing of history
The tensions of historical Wissenschaft : the émigré historians and the making of German cultural history / Steven E. Aschheim
From the margins to the mainstream : refugees and the successors on the Jewish questions, antisemitism, and the Holocaust in German history / Jeffrey Herf
Reluctant return : Peter Gay and the cosmopolitan work of a historian / Helmut Walser Smith
Out of the limelight or in : Raul Hilberg, Gerhard Weinberg, Henry Friedlander, and the historical study of the Holocaust / Doris L. Bergen
Blazing new paths in historiography : "refugee effect" and American experience in the professional trajectory of Gerda Lerner / Marjorie Lamberti
Part IV. Comparative and transnational perspectives
German emigre historians in Israel / Shulamit Volkov
German and Austrian émigré historians in Britain after 1933 / Peter Alter
The second-generation émigrés' impact on German historiography / Philipp Stelzel
Encounters with émigré historians of the first and second generation / Gerhard A. Ritter
Influences : a personal comment / Jürgen Kocka
Part V. Bio-bibliographical guide
Emigrés in the historical disciplines : research perspectives / Andreas W. Daum
Biographies / Andreas W. Daum and Sherry L. Fuhr ; with the assistance of Perry E. Beardsley, April Kiser, Axel Steensen, and Friederike Steensen.
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