Chapter 23 Biographies

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction. Refugees From Nazi Germany as Historians: Origins and Migrations, Interests and Identities 1
6. Part I Testimonies
7. Chapter 1 It Hardly Needs Emphasis That My Own Generation, the Second, is Deeply Indebted to the First 55
8. Chapter 2 “A Wanderer Betwtween Several Worlds” 59
9. Chapter 3 External Eventsts, Inner Drives 72
10. Chapter 4 Not Exile, but a New Life 79
11. Chapter 5 History and Social Action Beyond National and Continental Borders 82
12. Chapter 6 Some Issues and Experiences in German-American Scholarly Relations 97
13. Chapter 7 Some Reflections on the Second Generation 102
14. Chapter 8 A Life Betwtween Homelands 114
15. Chapter 9 Out of Germany 130
16. Part II. Approaching the Second Generation
17. Chapter 10 The Second Generation: Émigré Historians of Modern Germany in Postwar America 143
18. Chapter 11 Thinking about the Second Generation Conceptually 152
19. Part III. Émigrés and the Writing of History
20. Chapter 12 The Tensions of Historical Wissenschaft: The Émigré Historians and the Making of German Cultural History 177
21. Chapter 13 From the Margins to the Mainstream: Refugees and the Successors on the Jewish Question, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust in German History 197
22. Chapter 14 Reluctant Return: Peter Gay and the Cosmopolitan Work of a Historian 210
23. Chapter 15 Out of the Limelight or In: Raul Hilberg, Gerhard Weinberg, Henry Friedlander, and the Historical Study of the Holocaust 229
24. Chapter 16 Blazing New Paths in Historiography “Refugee Effect” and American Experience in the Professional Trajectory of Gerda Lerner 244
25. Part IV Comparative and Transnational Perspectives
26. Chapter 17 German Émigré Historians in Israel 261
27. Chapter 18 German and Austrian Émigré Historians in Britain After 1933 271
28. Chapter 19 The Second-Generation Émigrés’ Impact on German Historiography 287
29. Chapter 20 Encounters with Émigré Historians of the First and Second Generation 304
30. Chapter 21 Influences: A Personal Comment 318
31. Part V Biobibliographic Guide
32. Chapter 22 Émigrés in the Historical Disciplines: Research Perspectives 327
33. Chapter 23 Biographies 339
34. Chapter 24 Selected Bibliography 454
35. Index 463