Chapter 7. Transcending History? Methodological Problems in Holocaust Testimony

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface to the Series vii
4. Introduction: The Holocaust and Historical Methodology 1
5. Part I: Memory and Culture in the Third Reich
6. Chapter 1. A World Without Jews: Interpreting the Holocaust 23
7. Chapter 2. Holocaust Historiography and Cultural History 44
8. Chapter 3. The Invisible Crime: Nazi Politics of Memory and Postwar Representation of the Holocaust 61
9. Chapter 4. The History of the Jews in the Ghettos: A Cultural Perspective 79
10. Chapter 5. National Socialism, Holocaust, and Ecology 101
11. Part II: Testimony and Commemoration
12. Chapter 6. Bearing Witness: Theological Roots of a New Secular Morality 127
13. Chapter 7. Transcending History? Methodological Problems in Holocaust Testimony 143
14. Chapter 8. Studying the Holocaust: Is History Commemoration? 158
15. Part III: Another Look at a Classic of Holocaust Historiography
16. Chapter 9. An Integrated History of the Holocaust: Some Methodological Challenges 181
17. Chapter 10. Truth and Circumstance: What (If Anything) Can Be Properly Said about the Holocaust? 190
18. Chapter 11. Modernist Holocaust Historiography: A Dialogue between Saul Friedländer and Hayden White 203
19. Part IV: The Holocaust in the World
20. Chapter 12. The Holocaust and European History 233
21. Chapter 13. Fascism and the Holocaust 255
22. Chapter 14. The Holocaust and World History: Raphael Lemkin and Comparative Methodology 272
23. Select Bibliography 290
24. Contributors 310
25. Index 313