Description
Although the chapters differ markedly in their embrace or eschewal of digital methods, they share several themes: a preoccupation with the experiences of persecution, escape, and resistance at different scales (individual, group, and systemic); methodological innovation through the adoption and tracking of micro- and mezzohistories of movement and displacement; varied approaches to the practice of Saul FriedlAEnder's "integrated history"; the mainstreaming of oral history; and the robust application of micro- and macrolevel approaches to the geographies of the Holocaust. Taken together, these chapters incorporate gender analysis, spatial thinking, and victim agency into Holocaust studies. In so doing, they move beyond existing notions of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders to portray the Holocaust as a complex and multilayered event.
About the Author
Tim Cole is a professor of social history at the University of Bristol.
Simone Gigliotti is a senior lecturer in Holocaust Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Reviews
"Tim Cole and Simone Gigliotti bring together a fascinating range of approaches from social history to cultural and migration and media studies, historical geography, literary studies, and linguistics. Their volume shows how methodological challenges of Holocaust scholarship can be addressed by taking on two scales of analysis-the microhistory of the individual and the mezzo-history of social groups." -Natalia Aleksiun, author of Conscious History: Polish-Jewish Historians before the Holocaust
Book Information
ISBN 9780810142725
Author Tim Cole
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Northwestern University Press
Publisher Northwestern University Press
Weight(grams) 410g