Collect and record! : Jewish Holocaust documentation in early postwar Europe

Collect and record! : Jewish Holocaust documentation in early postwar Europe / Laura Jockusch.

Author/creator	Jockusch, Laura
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
Copyright Notice	©2012
Description	xv, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives --Europe --History and criticism. Holocaust survivors--Europe --History. World War, 1939-1945--Historiography. Memorial books (Holocaust) Collective memory--Europe. Historiography--Europe --History --20th century. Germany--History --1933-1945 --Historiography.

Contents	Early chroniclers of the Holocaust: Jewish historical commissions and documentation centers in the aftermath of the Second World War -- Khurbn-forshung: history writing as a Jewish response to catastrophe -- Writing French Judaism's "book of martyrdom": Holocaust documentation in liberated France -- Writing Polish Jewry's "greatest national catastrophe": Holocaust documentation in Communist Poland -- Writing history on packed suitcases: Holocaust documentation in the Jewish displaced persons camps of Germany, Austria, and Italy -- History writing as reconstruction: the beginnings of Holocaust research from the perspective of its victims.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2012004841
ISBN	9780199764556 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN	0199764557 (hardback : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	D804.348 .J63 2012	✔ Available	Place Hold