Assessing the historian’s silence: A statistical analysis of Holocaust research in the years 1946‑1960
Research question and selection of the working materialIt is a widely held belief that until the mid-sixties, hardly anyone showed any interest in the history of the Holocaust. A lot of Holocaust survivors lamented this wrenching, persisting silence (Beer 1992, 99). Survivors decried the lack of pu...
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| الحاوية / القاعدة: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/temoigner, |
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| التنسيق: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| اللغة: | Anglais |
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Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire
2021
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | Research question and selection of the working materialIt is a widely held belief that until the mid-sixties, hardly anyone showed any interest in the history of the Holocaust. A lot of Holocaust survivors lamented this wrenching, persisting silence (Beer 1992, 99). Survivors decried the lack of public empathy for their suffering – and more than one historian readily copied and repeated their elegies. Even Jewish survivors chose to remain silent, the argument continues:[s]ilent about the fac... |
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