German History Writing and the Holocaust

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-101
Author(s):  
Mark Roseman
Keyword(s):  
Review Article ◽  
European History ◽  
German History ◽  
Final Solution ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Central European ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Underlying Trend ◽  
Quick Search

From Central European History’s founding in 1968, Nazism commanded a great deal of attention in the journal, but it was only after many years that this was also true of the Holocaust. A quick search on JSTOR shows that, of the articles and reviews mentioning the Holocaust, less than 10 percent were published in the journal's first twenty years, and over two-thirds were written between 2000 and 2014 (the last year of the JSTOR search). Of course, there is some semantics involved, as other terms such as Final Solution were sometimes used in earlier decades. But there is no doubt about the underlying trend, both in terms of the growing number of books that have come up for review, and the increasing number of important articles. In the 1970s, only one essay, by Lawrence Stokes, was devoted to the Holocaust. The 1980s saw a review article by Richard Breitman and a seminal piece on the ghettos by Christopher Browning. By contrast, since 2000, CEH has published around ten major contributions to Holocaust scholarship.

scholarly journals Central European History and the Holy Roman Empire

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-45
Author(s):  
Joachim Whaley
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
British Journal ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
European History ◽  
Holy Roman Empire ◽  
German History ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Central European ◽  
East European ◽  
New Literature

Central European History (CEH) began to appear at a crucial juncture in the historiography of the Holy Roman Empire. Of course its remit was much broader. Founded sixteen years before the British journal German History, Central European History, together with the Austrian History Yearbook (founded in 1965) and the East European Quarterly (founded in 1967), took over the role occupied between 1941 and 1964 by the Journal of Central European Affairs. Each of these US journals shared an openness to new approaches and to work on all periods since the Middle Ages, as well as a desire—in the words of CEH's inaugural editor, Douglas Unfug—to keep “readers abreast of new literature in the field …,” with “reflective, critical reviews or review articles dealing with works of central importance … [and] bibliographical articles dealing with limited periods or themes…”

scholarly journals Central European History since 1989: Historiographical Trends and Post-Wende “Turns”

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew I. Port
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
European History ◽  
German History ◽  
German Studies ◽  
Central European ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender

In a luncheon address at the annual meeting of the German Studies Association in 2013, David Blackbourn delivered an impassioned plaidoyer to “grow” German history, i.e., to rescue it from the temporal “provincialism” that has, he believes, increasingly characterized the study of Germany over the past two decades. Blackbourn was critical of the growing emphasis on the twentieth century and especially the post-1945 period—not because of the quality of the work per se, but rather because of the resultant neglect of earlier periods and the potential loss of valuable historical insights that this development has brought in its wake. There have been other seemingly seismic shifts in the profession as a whole that have not left the history of Germany and German-speaking Central Europe untouched: greater emphasis on discourse analysis and gender, memory and identity, experience and cultural practices (i.e., the “linguistic turn” and the “new” cultural history). Accompanied by a decline in interest about Germany exclusively as a “nation-state,” the last decade in particular has seen a spike in “global” or “transnational” approaches. And, like other fields, the study of Germany has also witnessed greater interest in the study of race, minorities, immigration, and colonization—what Catherine Epstein referred to as the “imperial turn” in a piece that appeared in the journal Central European History (CEH) in 2013.

Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg, eds., The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-179
Author(s):  
Doris L. Bergen ◽  
Geoff Eley ◽  
Laura Jockusch ◽  
Philipp Ther ◽  
Michelle Tusan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European History ◽  
Central European ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Presence Of People

Bashir Bashir, Amos Goldberg, and seventeen contributors have produced a powerful and incisive book that deserves the attention of everyone interested in central European history. Bashir and Goldberg's volume engages readers methodologically as well as intellectually, politically, ethically, and personally. It challenges us to think, write, and do things differently, to take risks, and to welcome the invigorating and disruptive presence of people in every aspect of our work.

Problems with Culture: German History After the Linguistic Turn

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-227
Author(s):  
Geoff Eley
Keyword(s):  
European History ◽  
German History ◽  
Second Empire ◽  
Central European ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Extended Review

I recently edited a volume of essays on the Kaiserreich, under the titleSociety, Culture, and the State in Germany, 1870–1930(Ann Arbor, 1996), which set out deliberately to explore the possible forms of new approaches to the history of the Second Empire; and in the circumstances it’s hard for me to approach this topic without saying something about Hans–Ulrich Wehler’s extended review of this volume inCentral European History, which came out during the summer. Wehler’s response is interesting. He actually likes most of the fifteen contributions to this collection, but reserves extended hostility for the ones by Geroge Stainmetz and Elisabetn Domansky, who clearly placed themselves beyond the pale of tolerable discourse by opting for non-Weberian sociology, Foucauldian perspectives, and gender critique.

scholarly journals Looking Back on the Sonderweg

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Kocka
Keyword(s):  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
European History ◽  
German History ◽  
Central European ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
Looking Back

Central European History has opened its pages again and again to the controversial debate about the so-called German Sonderweg. With that in mind, and on the occasion of this important journal's fiftieth anniversary, the following essay presents some very selective and personal thoughts on this topic. Although discussed and promoted much less frequently now than in previous decades, and although there are understandable reasons why it has left the center stage of scholarly debate, the approach to modern German history signified by this problematic concept has not been disproven or become obsolete. But, confronted by severe criticism, it has been—and can be—rethought and revised.

Central European Historyat Fifty: Notes from a Longtime Fan

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-22
Author(s):  
Konrad H. Jarausch
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
European History ◽  
German History ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Central European ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Emory University ◽  
The University

In the mid-1960s, a small delegation of graduate students went to Theodore S. Hamerow's office at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Noting that theJournal of Central European Affairshad ceased publication in 1964, James Harris, Stanley Zucker, and I asked our advisor why there was no academic journal dedicated to German history, a new field that had been developing rapidly. What could we do to create such an organ? The otherwise placid Hamerow wrinkled his brow and angrily asked who had put us up to this initiative! When we answered that this was just our idea, he relaxed and told us that he was the chair of a committee charged by the Conference Group for Central European History with doing just that, namely, founding such a new journal. Douglas A. Unfug of Emory University had already put in a bid, in fact, andCentral European Historystarted to appear in 1968. By using a variation of the previous name, the journal hoped to pick up prior subscribers and avoid being identified by its title with the erstwhile enemy—Germany.

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