Principal Sources


Chapter 1. Public and Personal Lessons

Joan Shelley Rubin, The Making of Middlebrow Culture; Arno Mayer, Why Did the Heavens Not Darken; Walter Laqueur, Best of Times, Worst of Times; Margaret MacMillan, Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History; Alon Confino, Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding; Robert Bothwell, Laying the Foundation; George L. Mosse, Confronting History; Jonathan Webber, The Future of Auschwitz: Some Personal Reflections.

Chapter 2. Historical Lessons

J.G.A. Pocock, “Historiography and Enlightenment: A View of Their Study,” Modern Intellectual History 5 (2008); Michael Horowitz and Cynthia Palmer, eds., Moksha: Aldous Huxley’s Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience (1931–1963); Pierre Nora, “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Mémoire,” Representations 26 (1989); Henry Rousso, The Haunting Past: History, Memory, and Justice in Contemporary France; Daniel Schacter, The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers; Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945; Murray G. Murphey, Our Knowledge of the Historical Past; Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, review of Ernest R. May, “The Use and Misuse of History in American Foreign Policy,” Journal of American History 61 (1974); Otto Friedrich, Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s; Geoffrey Elton, Return to Essentials: Some Reflections on the Present State of Historical Study; idem, The Practice of History; Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society; Margaret MacMillan, Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History; William Bain, “Are There Any Lessons of History? The English School and the Activity of Being an Historian,” International Politics 44 (2007); Yuen Foong Khong, Analogies at War: Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu, and the Vietnam Decisions of 1965; Bernard Lonergan, Method in Theology; Charlotte Smith, Carl Becker on History and the Climate of Opinion; Barbara Tuchman, “History Lessons,” New York Review of Books, March 29, 1984; Paul Johnson, “Tuchman’s Folly,” New Criterion, May 1984; Harold Evans, “On the Brink,” New York Times Book Review, May 19, 2013; Ernest May, “Lessons” of the Past: The Use and Misuse of History in American Foreign Policy; Kathleen Burk, Troublemaker: The Life and History of A.J.P. Taylor; Michael Howard, The Lessons of History; “Liberté pour l’histoire,” Libération, December 13, 2005; Pierre Nora, “History, Memory and the Law in France, 1990–2010,” Historein 11 (2011); Millennium Project, Global Futures Studies and Research.

Chapter 3. Early Lessons

Telford Taylor, The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials; Myriam Anissimov, Primo Levi: Tragedy of an Optimist; Ian Thomson, Primo Levi: A Life; Naomi Seidman, “Elie Wiesel and the Scandal of Jewish Rage,” Jewish Social Studies 3 (1996); Naomi Seidman, Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Differences and the Politics of Translation; Susan Rubin Suleiman, “Problems of Memory and Factuality in Recent Holocaust Memoirs: Wilkomerski/Wiesel,” Poetics Today 21 (2000); Raul Hilberg, The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian; Alon Confino, “Remembering the Second World War, 1945–1965: Narratives of Victimhood and Genocide,” Cultural Analysis 4 (2005); Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945; Annette Wieviorka, The Era of the Witness; Christopher R. Browning, Susannah Heschel, Michael R. Marrus, and Milton Shain, eds., Holocaust Scholarship: Personal Trajectories and Professional Interpretations; Hasia Diner, We Remember with Reverence and Love; Tony Judt, “The ‘Problem of Evil’ in Postwar Europe,” New York Review of Books, February 14, 2008; Idith Zertal, Israel’s Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood; Claude Lanzmann, The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir; Sharon Portnoff, James A. Diamond, and Martiln D. Yaffe, eds., Emil L. Fackenheim: Philosopher, Theologian, Jew; Michael L. Morgan, Fackenheim’s Jewish Philosophy: An Introduction; Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life; Alvin Rosenfeld, Thinking about the Holocaust after Half a Century; Gregory Baum, Essays in Critical Philosophy; Edward T. Linenthal, Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum; Jonathan Tobin, “Six Million Dead but Eleven, or Is It Twelve Million Universalizing Lies,” Commentary, December 2014; Tom Segev, Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legend; Sam Shulman, “Holocaust Hegemony … and Its Moral Pitfalls,” Weekly Standard, January 3, 2011.

Chapter 4. Jewish Lessons

Raul Hilberg, The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian; Christopher R. Browning; Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers; Lawrence Langer, Pre-empting the Holocaust; Jean Améry, At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities; Elie Wiesel, Night; Elie Pfefferkorn, The Muselmann at the Water Cooler; Annette Wieviorka, The Era of the Witness; Barbara Engelking, Holocaust and Memory: The Experience of the Holocaust and Its Consequences: An Investigation Based on Personal Narratives; Christopher R. Browning, Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp; Doris Bergen, War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust; Amos Goldberg, Holocaust Diaries as “Life Stories”; Margaret MacMillan, Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History; Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Hannah Arendt: For the Love of the World; Etgar Keret, The Seven Good Years: A Memoir; Ruth R. Wisse, Jews and Power; Klaus-Michael Mallmann and Martin Cüppers, Nazi Palestine: The Plans for the Extermination of the Jews in Palestine; Richard Bretiman and Allan J. Lichtman, FDR and the Jews; Michael R. Marrus, “FDR and the Holocaust: From Blaming to Understanding,” Yad Vashem Studies; Raphael Ahren, “The Holocaust Can Happen Again, Warns Top Anti-Semitism Scholar,” Haaretz, April 12, 2010; Edward Alexander, The State of the Jews: A Critical Appraisal; Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Anne Frank and the Future of Holocaust Memory; Daniel Greenfield, “Israel, the Holocaust and the Survival Lesson,” Outpost, April 2010; Peter Hirschberg, “Netanyahu: It’s 1938 and Iran Is Germany: Ahmadinejad Is Preparing Another Holocaust,” Haaretz, November 14, 2006; Nicole Herrington, “Viewing Anti-Semitism from a Global Angle,” New York Times, October 18, 2012; Phyllis Chesler, “Can the Brainwashed Learn the Lessons of the Holocaust in Time?” News Real Blog, October 4, 2010, http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/10/04/can-the-brainwashed-learn-the-lessons-of-the-holocaust-in-time/, consulted on December 10, 2014; Fareed Zakaria, “The  Year of Living Fearfully,” Newsweek, September 11, 2006.

Chapter 5. Israeli Lessons

Bernard Avishai Dot com, May 14, 2009. http://bernardavishai.blogspot.ca/2009/05/pope-and-rubys-tuesday.html;

Boaz Cohen, “Setting the Agenda of Holocaust Research: Discord at Yad Vashem in the 1950s,” in David Bankier and Dan Michman, eds., Holocaust Historiography in Context: Emergence, Challenges, Polemics and Achievements; Ronald Zweig, German Reparations and the Jewish World: A History of the Claims Conference; Anna Porter, Kasztner’s Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust; Leora Bilsky, Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial; Tom Segev, The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust; Hanna Yablonka, The State of Israel vs. Adolf Eichmann; Bettina Stangneth, Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer; Idith Zertal, Israel’s Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood; Yehiam Weitz, “Ben Gurion and the Eichmann Trial,” Yad Vashem Studies 36 (2008); “The Eichmann Case As Seen by Ben Gurion,” New York Times Magazine, January 8, 1961; Ronald W. Zweig, David Ben-Gurion: Politics and Leadership in Israel; Nahum Goldmann, The Autobiography of Nahum Goldmann: Sixty Years of Jewish Life; Lawrence Douglas, The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust; Annette Wieviorka, The Era of the Witness; Amit Pinchevsky and Tamar Liebes, “Severed Voices: Radio and the Mediation of Trauma in the Eichmann Trial,” Public Culture 22 (2010); David Cesarani, Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes, and Trial of a “Desk Murderer”; Michal Shaked, “The Unknown Eichmann Trial: The Story of the Judge,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 29 (2015); Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider, The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age; Avraham Burg, The Holocaust Is Over: We Must Rise from Its Ashes; Steven Aschheim, in Christopher Browning, Susannah Heschel, Michael Marrus, and Milton Shain, eds., Holocaust Scholarship: Personal Trajectories and Professional Interpretations; Merav Michaeli, “Israel’s Never-Ending Holocaust,” Haaretz, January 20, 2012; Eyal Lewin, Ethos Clash in Israeli Society; Ruthie Blum, “Recalling the Nazi Parallel,” Jerusalem Post, April 27, 2014; Galia Golan, Israeli Peacemaking since 1967: Factors behind the Breakthroughs and Failures; Yossi Klein Halevi, “Resolving Israel’s Internal War of Atonement,” Times of Israel, September 9, 2013; Meir Kahane, Never Again: A Program for Survival; Avi Shilon, Menachem Begin: A Life; Aluf Benn, “The Short History of the Future Holocaust,” Haaretz, June 3, 2013; Amira Hass, “Life under Israeli Occupation – by an Israeli,” Independent, August 26, 2001; Allan C. Brownfield, “The Politicization of the Holocaust: Examining the Uses and Abuse of Its Legacy,” Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, October/November 1998; “Full Transcript of Netanyahu Speech for Remembrance Day,” Times of Israel, April 27, 2014; Herb Keinon, Nissan Tsur, “PM: Israel Ready to Defend against Another Holocaust,” Jerusalem Post, June 13, 2013; Benjamin Gampel, “Benzion Netanyahu, Scholar Who Saw Lessons in History: Appreciation,” Jewish Daily Forward, May 2, 2012; David Remnick, “The Outsider,” New Yorker, May 25, 1998; Arye Naor, “Lessons of the Holocaust versus Territories for Peace, 1967–2001,” Israel Studies 8 (2003); Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Point of No Return,” Atlantic, August 11, 2010; Yehuda Bauer, “The Israel Air Force Flyover at Auschwitz: A Crass, Superficial Display,” Haaretz, October 8, 2013; Tony Judt, “The Problem of Evil in Postwar Europe,” New York Review of Books, February 14, 2008.

Chapter 6. Universal Lessons

Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil; Gertrude Erzorsky, “Hannah Arendt against the Facts,” New Politics 2 (1963); Susan Neiman, “Theodicy in Jerusalem,” in Steven E. Aschheim, ed., Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem; “Polish Philosopher Bauman Rejects Honorary Degree over Anti-Semitic Attacks,” JTA, August 19, 2013; Michael Berenbaum, The Vision of the Void: Theological Reflections on the Works of Eli Wiesel; idem, “What the Survivor and the Historian Know,” Jewish Daily Forward, May 4, 2012; Marion Fischel, “The 50 Most Influential Jews of 2014,” Jerusalem Post, June 3, 2014; Elie Wiesel, One Generation After; Michael Ignatieff, The Warrior’s Honour: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience; Alan S. Rosenbaum, Is the Holocaust Unique? Perspectives on Comparative Genocide; Emil Fackenheim, A Jewish Philosopher’s Response to the Holocaust; Michael R. Marrus, Some Measure of Justice: The Holocaust Era Restitution Campaign of the 1990s; Jan Surmann, “Restitution Policy and the Transformation of Holocaust Memory: The Impact of the American ‘Crusade for Justice’ after 1989,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 49 (Fall 2011); Irwin Cotler, “An Act of Remembrance, a Remembrance to Act,” Jerusalem Post, February 1, 2011; Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust; Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of the Six Million; Doris L. Bergen, “Studying the Holocaust: Is History Commemoration?” in Dan Stone, ed., The Holocaust and Historical Methodology; Peter Hayes, “The Holocaust: Myths and Misconceptions,” unpub. paper.

Chapter 7. Lessons of the Holocaust

Stanley Payne, David Sorkin, and John Tortorice, What History Tells: George L. Mosse and the Culture of Modern Europe; George L. Mosse, Confronting History: A Memoir; Alvin Rosenfeld, The End of the Holocaust; Tony Judt, “From the House of the Dean: On Modern European Memory,” New York Review of Books, October 6, 2005; Leora Bilsky, “In a Different Voice: Nathan Alterman and Hannah Arendt on the Kastner and Eichmann Trials,” Theoretical Inquires in Law 1 (2000).