{"id":5570,"date":"2017-08-11T09:47:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T09:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=5570"},"modified":"2017-08-11T09:47:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T09:47:14","slug":"microhistories-of-the-holocaust-edited-by-claire-zalc-and-tal-bruttmann-berghahn-books-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=5570","title":{"rendered":"Microhistories of the Holocaust. Edited by Claire Zalc and Tal Bruttmann. Berghahn Books, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThis volume brings together an international cast of scholars to reflect on the ongoing microhistorical turn in Holocaust studies, assessing its historiographical pitfalls as well as the distinctive opportunities it affords researchers\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Microhistories of the Holocaust<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Edited by Claire Zalc and Tal Bruttmann<\/p>\n

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336 pages, 4 illus., bibliog., index<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis excellent volume not only displays an admirable thematic and geographic diversity, but also presents a range of interpretations of the methodology known as \u2018microhistory.\u2019 Together, the chapters provide a refreshing and important look at the genocide against the Jews, illuminating aspects and incidents that must, by definition, be overlooked by macrohistorical studies.\u201d Jonathan R. Zatlin, Boston University<\/p>\n

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\u201cWith historians in many countries turning increasingly to microhistory as an effective way to explore questions of human behavior and historical causation, now is the right time for this collection devoted to the Holocaust. The volume offers broad geographic and thematic coverage, provides examples of a variety of microhistorical approaches, and features the work of established scholars as well as younger colleagues engaged in innovative scholarship.\u201d Alan E. Steinweis, University of Vermont<\/p>\n

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How does scale affect our understanding of the Holocaust? In the vastness of its implementation and the sheer amount of death and suffering it produced, the genocide of Europe\u2019s Jews presents special challenges for historians, who have responded with work ranging in scope from the world-historical to the intimate. In particular, recent scholarship has demonstrated a willingness to study the Holocaust at scales as focused as a single neighborhood, family, or perpetrator. This volume brings together an international cast of scholars to reflect on the ongoing microhistorical turn in Holocaust studies, assessing its historiographical pitfalls as well as the distinctive opportunities it affords researchers.<\/p>\n

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Claire Zalc is a Research Professor (directrice de recherche) in history at the Institut d\u2019histoire moderne et contemporaine, CNRS-ENS. She specializes in the history of immigration in twentieth-century France and the history of French Jews during World War II. She was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2013.<\/p>\n

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Tal Bruttmann is a researcher whose work focuses on the various anti-Jewish policies implemented in France between 1940 and 1944, as well as the \u201cFinal Solution.\u201d He has published several books, the most recent of which was Auschwitz (La D\u00e9couverte, 2015).<\/p>\n

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Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Acknowledgments
\nList of tables
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Introduction: Towards a Microhistory of the Holocaust<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/ZalcMicrohistories_intro.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Claire Zalc and Tal Bruttmann<\/p>\n

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PART I: BIOGRAPHIES, GROUPS, TRANSPORTS, GHETTOS: THE SCALES OF ANALYSIS<\/p>\n

Chapter 1. An Inconceivable Emigration. Richard Frank\u2019s flight from Germany to Switzerland in 1942
\nChristoph Kreutzm\u00fcller<\/p>\n

Chapter 2. Pursuing Escape from Vienna: The Katz Family\u2019s Correspondence
\nMelissa Jane Taylor<\/p>\n

Chapter 3. Moving Together, Moving Alone: The Story of Boys on a Transport from Auschwitz to Buchenwald
\nKenneth Waltzer<\/p>\n

Chapter 4. Dehumanizing the Dead. The Destruction of Thessaloniki\u2019s Jewish Cemetery
\nLeon Saltiel<\/p>\n

Chapter 5. Reconstructing Trajectories of Persecution: Reflections on a Prosopography of Holocaust Victims
\nNicolas Mariot and Claire Zalc<\/p>\n

Chapter 6. Microhistories, Microgeographies: Budapest, 1944 and Scales of Analysis
\nTim Cole<\/p>\n

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PART II: FACE-TO-FACE: VICTIMS AND PERPETRATORS<\/p>\n

Chapter 7. Microhistory of the Holocaust in Poland: New Sources, New Trails
\nJan Grabowski<\/p>\n

Chapter 8. Jewish Slave Workers in the German Aviation Industry
\nDaniel Uziel<\/p>\n

Chapter 9. The Devil in Microhistory: The \u201cHunt for Jews\u201d as a Social Process, 1942-1945
\nTomasz Frydel<\/p>\n

Chapter 10. On the Persistence of Moral Judgment: Local Perpetrators in Transnistria as Seen by Survivors and Their Christian Neighbors
\nVladimir Solonari<\/p>\n

Chapter 11. Defiance and Protest. A Comparative Microhistorical Reevaluation of Individual Jewish Responses to Nazi Persecution
\nWolf Gruner<\/p>\n

Chapter 12. The Murder of the Jews in Ostr\u00f3w Mazowiecka in November 1939
\nMarkus Roth<\/p>\n

Chapter 13. \u00c9chirolles, August 7 1944: a Triple Execution
\nTal Bruttmann<\/p>\n

Chapter 14. The Beginning: First Massacres against the Jews in the Romanian Holocaust. Level of Decision, Genocidal Strategy and Killing Methods regarding Dorohoi and Galati Pogroms, June-July, 1940
\nAlexandru Muraru<\/p>\n

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PART III: THE MATERIAL FOR SHIFTING SCALES: SOURCES BETWEEN TESTIMONIES AND ARCHIVES<\/p>\n

Chapter 15. The Holocaust and Postwar Justice in Poland in Three Acts
\nAndrew Kornbluth<\/p>\n

Chapter 16. The Small and the Good: Microhistory Through the Eyes of the Witness. A Case Study
\nHannah Pollin-Galay<\/p>\n

Chapter 17. The Witness against the Archive: towards a Microhistory of Christianstadt
\nJeffrey Wallen<\/p>\n

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Bibliography
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http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/ZalcMicrohistories<\/a><\/p>\n

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