books by Helmut Walser Smith

books by Helmut Walser Smith

books:

Helmut Walser Smith

The Holocaust and Other Genocides: History, Representation, Ethics

Vanderbilt University Press, 2002

A seminal and invaluable contribution to Holocaust Studies
A the result of a special project of the Tennessee Holocaust Commission, Inc., and in association with the Vanderbilt University based Zimmerman Foundation and Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Helmut Smith (Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt ...

The Continuities of German History: Nation, Religion, and Race Across the Long Nineteenth Century
Helmut Walser Smith

Cambridge University Press, 2008

This book addresses the long term of German history, tracing ideas and politics across what have become sharp chronological breaks. Smith argues that current historiography has become ever more focused on the twentieth century, and on twentieth-century explanations for the German catastrophe. Against conventional wisdom, he considers continuities ...

La Rumeur de Konitz : Une affaire d'antisémitisme dans l'Allemagne 1900
Helmut Walser Smith, Richard Crevier

Phébus, 2003

Protestants, Catholics and Jews in Germany, 1800-1914

Berg Publishers, 2001

In the course of the nineteenth century, the boundaries that divided Protestants, Catholics and Jews in Germany were redrawn, challenged, rendered porous and built anew. This book addresses this redrawing. It considers the relations of three religious groups-Protestants, Catholics, and Jews-and asks how, by dint of their interaction, they affected ...

The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

Helmut Walser Smith

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

A History Of An Hysteria
The Butcher's Tale is on the surface the story of the murder of an 18 year old boy in an obscure town in a backwards corner of Germany in 1900. The parts of the book which deal with the discovery of the body and the subsequent investigations read like any report of a ...

Exclusionary Violence: Antisemitic Riots in Modern German History (Social History, Popular Culture, and ...

University of Michigan Press, 2002

Whereas a large body of scholarly literature exists on German antisemitism in general, pre-Nazi histories of violence against Jews in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have been widely neglected. This coherent and well-focused collection of essays is the first comprehensive work in any language dealing with antisemitic pogroms in modern ...