Physical Description
xiii, 473 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents
Preface / by Hartmut Lehmann and James J. Sheehan
Introduction: Refugees from Nazi Germany as historians : origins and migrations, interests and identities / Andreas W. Daum
Part I. Testimonies
"It needs hardly emphasis how deeply my own generation, the second, is indebted to the first" / Klemens von Klemperer
"A wanderer between several worlds" / Walter Laqueur
External events, inner drives / Peter Paret
Not exile, but a new life / Fritz Stern
History and social action beyond national and continental borders / Georg G. Iggers
Some issues and experiences in German-American scholarly relations / Gerhard L. Weinberg
Some reflections on the second generation / Hanna Holborn Gray
A life between homelands / Peter Loewenberg
Out of Germany / Renate Bridenthal
Part II. Approaching the second generation
The second generation : émigré historians of modern Germany in post-war America / Catherine Epstein
Thinking about the second generation conceptually / Volker R. Berghahn
Part III. Emigrés and the writing of history
The tensions of historical Wissenschaft : the émigré historians and the making of German cultural history / Steven E. Aschheim
From the margins to the mainstream : refugees and the successors on the Jewish questions, antisemitism, and the Holocaust in German history / Jeffrey Herf
Reluctant return : Peter Gay and the cosmopolitan work of a historian / Helmut Walser Smith
Out of the limelight or in : Raul Hilberg, Gerhard Weinberg, Henry Friedlander, and the historical study of the Holocaust / Doris L. Bergen
Blazing new paths in historiography : "refugee effect" and American experience in the professional trajectory of Gerda Lerner / Marjorie Lamberti
Part IV. Comparative and transnational perspectives
German emigre historians in Israel / Shulamit Volkov
German and Austrian émigré historians in Britain after 1933 / Peter Alter
The second-generation émigrés' impact on German historiography / Philipp Stelzel
Encounters with émigré historians of the first and second generation / Gerhard A. Ritter
Influences : a personal comment / Jürgen Kocka
Part V. Bio-bibliographical guide
Emigrés in the historical disciplines : research perspectives / Andreas W. Daum
Biographies / Andreas W. Daum and Sherry L. Fuhr ; with the assistance of Perry E. Beardsley, April Kiser, Axel Steensen, and Friederike Steensen.
Other Authors/Editors
Daum, Andreas W., editor.
Lehmann, Hartmut, 1936- editor.
Sheehan, James J., editor.
ISBN
9781782389859
1782389857
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 454-462) and index.
Preface / by Hartmut Lehmann and James J. Sheehan -- Introduction: Refugees from Nazi Germany as historians : origins and migrations, interests and identities / Andreas W. Daum -- Part I. Testimonies -- "It needs hardly emphasis how deeply my own generation, the second, is indebted to the first" / Klemens von Klemperer -- "A wanderer between several worlds" / Walter Laqueur -- External events, inner drives / Peter Paret -- Not exile, but a new life / Fritz Stern -- History and social action beyond national and continental borders / Georg G. Iggers -- Some issues and experiences in German-American scholarly relations / Gerhard L. Weinberg -- Some reflections on the second generation / Hanna Holborn Gray -- A life between homelands / Peter Loewenberg -- Out of Germany / Renate Bridenthal -- Part II. Approaching the second generation -- The second generation : émigré historians of modern Germany in post-war America / Catherine Epstein -- Thinking about the second generation conceptually / Volker R. Berghahn -- Part III. Emigrés and the writing of history -- The tensions of historical Wissenschaft : the émigré historians and the making of German cultural history / Steven E. Aschheim -- From the margins to the mainstream : refugees and the successors on the Jewish questions, antisemitism, and the Holocaust in German history / Jeffrey Herf -- Reluctant return : Peter Gay and the cosmopolitan work of a historian / Helmut Walser Smith -- Out of the limelight or in : Raul Hilberg, Gerhard Weinberg, Henry Friedlander, and the historical study of the Holocaust / Doris L. Bergen -- Blazing new paths in historiography : "refugee effect" and American experience in the professional trajectory of Gerda Lerner / Marjorie Lamberti -- Part IV. Comparative and transnational perspectives -- German emigre historians in Israel / Shulamit Volkov -- German and Austrian émigré historians in Britain after 1933 / Peter Alter -- The second-generation émigrés' impact on German historiography / Philipp Stelzel -- Encounters with émigré historians of the first and second generation / Gerhard A. Ritter -- Influences : a personal comment / Jürgen Kocka -- Part V. Bio-bibliographical guide -- Emigrés in the historical disciplines : research perspectives / Andreas W. Daum -- Biographies / Andreas W. Daum and Sherry L. Fuhr ; with the assistance of Perry E. Beardsley, April Kiser, Axel Steensen, and Friederike Steensen.