With a Penetrating Gaze from the Sidelines : Raul Hilberg, the Destruction of the European Jews, and the History of Holocaust Historiography.
- 1st ed.
- New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2026. 2026.
- 1 online resource (439 pages)
- Vermont Studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust Series ; v.10 .
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With a Penetrating Gaze from the Sidelines -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Raul Hilberg: Life, Work, and Memory- Some Introductory Reflections -- Part I. The Destruction as Text: Evolution, Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Blind spots -- 1. Revisiting Hilberg's Conceptual Model of the Development of The Destruction of the European Jews -- 2. Emigration and Expropriation in Raul Hilberg's Work, The Destruction of the European Jews -- 3. Law and History: Raul Hilberg, the Nuremberg Trial Documents, and Narrative Legacies of the "Final Solution" -- 4. Raul Hilberg and the Discussion Around the Führerbefehl -- 5. "Much is Unsaid": Women in the Life and Work of Raul Hilberg -- 6. "I Was Determined to Work on this Topic": An Unpublished Interview with Raul Hilberg 1992 -- 7. Inside the Written Items: On the Laconism of Raul Hilberg -- 8. On the Moral Imprecision of Irony: Raul Hilberg's Machinery of Destruction -- Conclusion I. Strengths, Weaknesses, and Blind Spots: The Work of Raul Hilberg in Historiographical Perspective -- Part II. Hilberg and Holocaust Historiography -- 9. After Destruction: Assessing Hilberg's Mid-Career Scholarship -- 10. Raul Hilberg and the Perpetrator Documents -- 11. Precision, Severity, and Seriousness: Raul Hilberg's Significance for Holocaust Research -- 12. Raul Hilberg, the Term Holocaust, and the Conferences from San José to Stuttgart -- 13. Franz Neumann's Behemoth and the Beginnings of Holocaust Research with Raul Hilberg -- 14. Two Different Fathers of Holocaust Research: Raul Hilberg and Philip Friedman -- 15. "Over and Over, She Returns Like a Ghost": Reflections on the Conflict Between Hannah Arendt and Raul Hilberg -- Conclusion II. Raul Hilberg as a "First Mover" -- Index.
Offers a critical assessment of seven decades of Holocaust research and identifies the tasks ahead. The first comprehensive assessment of Raul Hilberg's work, the most important Holocaust historian of his generation. A line-up of some of the most prominent Holocaust historians in the world discusses the key concepts and analytical strategies of Hilberg's book.