{"product_id":"microhistories-of-the-holocaust-9781785333668","title":"Microhistories of the Holocaust","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tHow does scale affect our understanding of the Holocaust? In the vastness of its implementation and the sheer amount of death and suffering it produced, the genocide of Europe’s Jews presents special challenges for historians, who have responded with work ranging in scope from the world-historical to the intimate. In particular, recent scholarship has demonstrated a willingness to study the Holocaust at scales as focused as a single neighborhood, family, or perpetrator. This volume brings together an international cast of scholars to reflect on the ongoing microhistorical turn in Holocaust studies, assessing its historiographical pitfalls as well as the distinctive opportunities it affords researchers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This selection of mostly highly stimulating and well-researched case studies not only gives insight into the diversity of what we think of as the Holocaust, but also a sense of how differently we can go about studying this topic and past social life in general. There is much to be gained, therefore, from reading this collection not selectively, according to one’s own research interests, but as a whole. In this sense, this is a very effective publication and a great addition to the literature.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• H-Soz-Kult\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The contributions underline the extra value of microhistory, particularly for the study of relations and interactions between Jews and their non-Jewish fellow citizens. More generally, the volume demonstrates that the traditional tripartite division into victims, perpetrators, and bystanders is at least questionable. In most of the presented microstudies bystanders are absent, if not nonexistent. … The editors' main aim was to show through their collection of microstudies the complexity and diversity of the Holocaust. In this, they have succeeded admirably.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• H-Net Reviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This excellent volume not only displays an admirable thematic and geographic diversity, but also presents a range of interpretations of the methodology known as ‘microhistory.’ Together, the chapters provide a refreshing and important look at the genocide against the Jews, illuminating aspects and incidents that must, by definition, be overlooked by macrohistorical studies.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Jonathan R. Zatlin\u003c\/strong\u003e, Boston University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“With historians in many countries turning increasingly to microhistory as an effective way to explore questions of human behavior and historical causation, now is the right time for this collection devoted to the Holocaust. The volume offers broad geographic and thematic coverage, provides examples of a variety of microhistorical approaches, and features the work of established scholars as well as younger colleagues engaged in innovative scholarship.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Alan E. Steinweis\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Vermont\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e \tList of tables\u003cbr\u003e \tList of photos\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Towards a Microhistory of the Holocaust\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eClaire Zalc and Tal Bruttmann\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: BIOGRAPHIES, GROUPS, TRANSPORTS, GHETTOS: THE SCALES OF ANALYSIS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e An Inconceivable Emigration. Richard Frank’s flight from Germany to Switzerland in 1942\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChristoph Kreutzmüller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Pursuing Escape from Vienna: The Katz Family’s Correspondence\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMelissa Jane Taylor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Moving Together, Moving Alone: The Story of Boys on a Transport from Auschwitz to Buchenwald\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKenneth Waltzer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Dehumanizing the Dead. The Destruction of Thessaloniki’s Jewish Cemetery\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLeon Saltiel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Reconstructing Trajectories of Persecution: Reflections on a Prosopography of Holocaust Victims\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eNicolas Mariot and Claire Zalc\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Microhistories, Microgeographies: Budapest, 1944 and Scales of Analysis\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTim Cole\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: FACE-TO-FACE: VICTIMS AND PERPETRATORS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Microhistory of the Holocaust in Poland: New Sources, New Trails\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJan Grabowski\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Jewish Slave Workers in the German Aviation Industry\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDaniel Uziel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Devil in Microhistory: The “Hunt for Jews” as a Social Process, 1942-1945\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTomasz Frydel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e On the Persistence of Moral Judgment: Local Perpetrators in Transnistria as Seen by Survivors and Their Christian Neighbors\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eVladimir Solonari\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Defiance and Protest. A Comparative Microhistorical Reevaluation of Individual Jewish Responses to Nazi Persecution\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWolf Gruner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Murder of the Jews in Ostrów Mazowiecka in November 1939\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMarkus Roth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e Échirolles, August 7 1944: a Triple Execution\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTal Bruttmann\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Beginning: First Massacres against the Jews in the Romanian Holocaust. Level of Decision, Genocidal Strategy and Killing Methods regarding Dorohoi and Galati Pogroms, June-July, 1940\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAlexandru Muraru\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: THE MATERIAL FOR SHIFTING SCALES: SOURCES BETWEEN TESTIMONIES AND ARCHIVES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 15.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Holocaust and Postwar Justice in Poland in Three Acts\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAndrew Kornbluth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 16.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Small and the Good: Microhistory Through the Eyes of the Witness. 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