The Anatomy of the Holocaust : : Selected Works from a Life of Scholarship / / ed. by René Schlott, Walter H. Pehle, Raul Hilberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• HerausgeberIn: Hilberg, Raul,; Pehle, Walter H.,; Schlott, René,
• MitwirkendeR: Pehle, Walter H.,; Schlott, René,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Vermont Studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 p.)

A multifaceted look at historian Raul Hilberg, tracing the evolution of Holocaust research from a marginal subdiscipline into a vital intellectual project. “I would recommend this book to both Holocaust historians and general readers alike. The breadth and depth of Hilberg’s research and his particular insights have not yet been surpassed by any other Holocaust scholar.”—Jewish Libraries News & Reviews Though best known as the author of the landmark 1961 work The Destruction of the European Jews, the historian Raul Hilberg produced a variety of archival research, personal essays, and other works over a career that spanned half a century. The Anatomy of the Holocaust collects some of Hilberg’s most essential and groundbreaking writings―many of them published in obscure journals or otherwise inaccessible to nonspecialists―in a single volume. Supplemented with commentary and notes from Hilberg’s longtime German editor and his biographer. From the Introduction: This selection by the editors from the multitude of his published texts focuses on Hilberg’s intellectual interests as a Holocaust researcher. Among other topics, they deal with the bureaucracy of the Holocaust, the number of victims, the role of the Judenräte(Jewish councils), and the function of the railway and the police in the extermination process. The scholarly impulses extending from Hilberg’s work remain remarkable and virulent almost a decade after his death.2 They deserve to be readily accessible in one place to historians and the interested public in the new compilation offered here. Many of the debates influenced by Hilberg are not yet resolved. The texts presented can be quite revealing in light of these controversies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Research and Scholarship -- 1 The Anatomy of the Holocaust (1980) -- 2 German Motivations for the Destruction of the Jews (1965) -- 3 The Bureaucracy of Annihilation (1985/1989) -- 4 The Significance of the Holocaust (1980) -- 5 Incompleteness in Holocaust Historiography (2005) -- II Controversies and Debates -- 6 Bitburg as Symbol (1986) -- 7 The Ghetto as a Form of Government (1980) -- 8 The Judenrat Conscious or Unconscious “Tool” (1979) -- 9 I Was Not There (1988) -- III Memories and Memoirs -- 10 The Holocaust Mission 29 July to 12 August 1979 (1982) -- 11 In Search of the Special Trains (1979) -- 12 Working on the Holocaust (1986) -- 13 The Development of Holocaust Research A Personal Overview (2007) -- Index of Persons -- Index of Places -- Index of Subjects