Beyond the Conceivable - Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust

“The brilliance of Diner’s essays stems in good part from the astonishingly wide perspectives in which he sets his inquiries and from the interdisciplinary synthesis he is able to master. Publication in English is of extreme importance in enriching the debates on Nazism and the Holocaust in this country.”—Saul Friedlander, author of Nazi Germany and the Jews

"One of the most probing and intellectually sophisticated historians of the German Jewish conundrum, Dan Diner has a quality of mind and an intellectual depth and precision that are altogether unique.”—Anson Rabinbach, author of In the Shadow of Catastrophe

About the author

Dan Diner is Professor at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, and Director of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at Leipzig University.

Summary

A collection of essays that reflect the author's belief that the Holocaust transcends traditional patterns of historical understanding and requires an epistemologically distinct approach. It talks about anti-Semitism in the context of the 1930s and the ideologies that drove the Nazi regime.

Product details

• Authors: Dan Diner, Diner Dan
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.05.2000
• EAN: 9780520213456
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21345-6
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Weimar and Now: German Cultura; Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism; Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; History, Europe, European History, RELIGION / Judaism / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, Judaism