The Politics of Holocaust Research in Yad Vashem Studies, Volume XXXI

David Cesarani

NIS 13.00

The Politics of Holocaust Research Raul Hilberg, Sources of Holocaust Research. An Analysis, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001, 204 pp. + index

Raul Hilberg’s new book is an excellent guide to the thought processes of one of the most important historians of the Nazi era. It is primarily a highly personal work of classification. When writing about documents and officialese, Hilberg is brilliant. At the same time, the book is of uneven value as a guide to locating, evaluating, and employing various sources. Hilberg is little interested in three-dimensional sources such as locations and artifacts, and is interested in photographs only for their evidentiary value. He also shows scant interest in sources that give varied expression to the Jewish experience. Still, by the end of the book, the reader gains an insight into how a great historian thinks and how history writing is achieved.

The Politics of Holocaust Research Raul Hilberg, Sources of Holocaust Research. An Analysis, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001, 204 pp. + index

Raul Hilberg’s new book is an excellent guide to the thought processes of one of the most important historians of the Nazi era. It is primarily a highly personal work of classification. When writing about documents and officialese, Hilberg is brilliant. At the same time, the book is of uneven value as a guide to locating, evaluating, and employing various sources. Hilberg is little interested in three-dimensional sources such as locations and artifacts, and is interested in photographs only for their evidentiary value. He also shows scant interest in sources that give varied expression to the Jewish experience. Still, by the end of the book, the reader gains an insight into how a great historian thinks and how history writing is achieved.

מפרט המוצר
ISSN 0084-3296
Year 2003
ISBN 965-308-1
Catalog No. 200313
No. of Pages 8 pp.
Format Electronic article in Yad Vashem Studies, Volume XXXI, pp. 425-432, Edited by David Silberklang
Publisher Yad Vashem
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