Advances in Holocaust History and Education : A Re-evaluation of Perspectives and Methods in Honour of Paul A. Levine

著者名：Rudberg, Pontus (EDT)/Kvist Geverts, Karin (EDT)/Bruchfeld, Stéphane (EDT)

Palgrave Macmillan（2026/07/29発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9783032263339
• eISBN：9783032263346

Description

This book, in tribute to the late Paul A Levine, a pioneer in the field of Holocaust history, focuses on themes identified in international research as particularly important for advances in Holocaust history and education, such as the role of 'bystanders', foreign policy and diplomacy, the role of individual actors, and Holocaust education. It aims to re-evaluate previous findings in light of new research in these areas, which were also the focal points of Levine’s research.

Recent decades have shown further advances in Holocaust research in terms of new perspectives and methodologies, which have enriched and broadened our understanding. For instance, the term 'bystander' has been refined into sub-categories and has increased our understanding of how roles changed over time and in different contexts. Furthermore, local studies have nuanced our understanding, and insights about the role of distance in time and space have deepened our knowledge of rescue opportunities. In bystander countries, research has primarily focused on refugee policy and the shift from a restrictive attitude in the 1930s and the first war years to a more generous policy towards the war's end. Scholars have placed the Jewish experience at the center, and recent research has explored the formation of Holocaust memory. This volume brings together contributors to produce new research in these areas and to articulate future directions for the field.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- It ‘May Have an Element of Geography’: Distance, the Swedish Rescue of Jews in Budapest, and the Historian.- Should “the Holocaust” Be Discarded, or What’s in a Name? Historiography(-ies), Memory(-ies), and Metanarrative(s).- Perpetrators, Victims, and Bystanders on the Local Level:Origins, Lived Reality, and Memory of World War II in Buczacz, Galicia.- “The Model Camp” Close Up and at a Distance: Theresienstadt in Danish and Swedish History Culture.- A New Turn in Holocaust Scholarship: The Role of the Unpredictable and the Irrational.- Issuing Swedish Citizenship as a Form of Rescue.- The Swedish Jews and the Danish Dunkerque.- Creating the Raoul Wallenberg Project Archive.- Hidden in Berlin—Survived in Bergen-Belsen. Sources on Six Jews Deported in Early 1945.- Holocaust Education and the Symbolic Geography of the Holocaust in Sweden.