The Second Generation : E��migre��s from Nazi Germany as Historians: With a Biobibliographic Guide /

"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,...

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Other Authors: Daum, Andreas W. (Editor), Lehmann, Hartmut, 1936- (Editor), Sheehan, James J. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2016
Series:Studies in German history ; volume 20
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Table of Contents:
  • ^^ The second-generation e��migre��s' impact on German historiography / Philipp Stelzel
  • Encounters with e��migre�� historians of the first and second generation / Gerhard A. Ritter
  • Influences : a personal comment / Ju��rgen Kocka
  • Part V. Bio-bibliographical guide
  • Emigre��s 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
  • ^^ Thinking about the second generation conceptually / Volker R. Berghahn
  • Part III. Emigre��s and the writing of history
  • The tensions of historical Wissenschaft : the e��migre�� 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 e��migre�� historians in Britain after 1933 / Peter Alter
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  • 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 : e��migre�� historians of modern Germany in post-war America / Catherine Epstein
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