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How does scale affect our understanding of the Holocaust? In the
vastness of its implementation and the sheer amount of death and
suffering it produced, the genocide of Europe's Jews presents
special challenges for historians, who have responded with work
ranging in scope from the world-historical to the intimate. In
particular, recent scholarship has demonstrated a willingness to
study the Holocaust at scales as focused as a single neighborhood,
family, or perpetrator. This volume brings together an
international cast of scholars to reflect on the ongoing
microhistorical turn in Holocaust studies, assessing its
historiographical pitfalls as well as the distinctive opportunities
it affords researchers.
How does scale affect our understanding of the Holocaust? In the
vastness of its implementation and the sheer amount of death and
suffering it produced, the genocide of Europe's Jews presents
special challenges for historians, who have responded with work
ranging in scope from the world-historical to the intimate. In
particular, recent scholarship has demonstrated a willingness to
study the Holocaust at scales as focused as a single neighborhood,
family, or perpetrator. This volume brings together an
international cast of scholars to reflect on the ongoing
microhistorical turn in Holocaust studies, assessing its
historiographical pitfalls as well as the distinctive opportunities
it affords researchers.
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