The Cambridge History of the Holocaust: Volume 1, Contexts: Origins, Comparisons, Entanglements

Offers an ambitious overview of the complex field of Holocaust history and provides insights into its longer-term causes and contexts.

Mark Roseman (Edited by), Dan Stone (Edited by)

9781108842976, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 12 June 2025

568 pages
23.5 x 16.2 x 3.2 cm, 1.04 kg

'… the editors have assembled a truly international and intergenerational roster of contributors that reflects the vigor and breadth of the field and the diversity of the people who work in it. One particularly salutary consequence is that numerous chapters make a great deal of research in languages that are not usually accessible to English-speakers available to them … a compendium of multi-faceted and hard-won learning.' Peter Hayes, H-Soz-Kult

The Cambridge History of the Holocaust offers a comprehensive and innovative overview of the complex field of Holocaust history from a variety of interpretive perspectives. The first volume begins with essays outlining the evolution of Holocaust historiography and the central conceptual and methodological questions facing historians. Further chapters provide insights into the longer-term causes and contexts of the Holocaust, before focusing on its immediate pre-history. The volume examines Holocaust archives, race-thinking and eugenics, violence in Weimar Germany, Hitler and Nazi ideology, and the implementation of antisemitic policies in the run up to the Second World War. Its ambitious coverage provides an unparalleled overview of the development of the policies that created the conditions necessary for the Holocaust to take place.

General Editor's Introduction Mark Roseman
Introduction to volume I Mark Roseman and Dan Stone
1. Historiography of the holocaust: early developments Boaz Cohen
2. The historiography of the holocaust: the years of diversification and integration Dan Stone
3. From 'final solution' to 'holocaust'. Autobiographical reflections Jane Caplan
4. The holocaust, genocide, and the origins of the commensurability problem A. Dirk Moses
5. Fascism and holocaust Aristotle Kallis
6. The holocaust and modernity Mark Roseman
7. Integrated approaches and boundaries in holocaust scholarship Dan Stone
8. Mapping the holocaust Tim Cole
9. Archiving the holocaust Jan Lambertz
10. Antisemitism in interwar Europe Ulrich Wyrwa
11. Race-thinking, Völkisch-nationalism, and eugenics Eric Kurlander
12. Inter-ethnic violence in Europe before the holocaust Robert Gerwarth
13. Communism and anti-Communism Andreas Wirsching
14. Weimar Germany's vanishing point: politics, violence and the rise of the nazis, 1918–1933 Annemarie Sammartino
15. Hitler and the Nazi party Thomas Weber
16. Hitler, state and party Helmut Walser Smith
17. Anti-semitic policy in the early years of the third Reich Hans Christian Jasch
18. Popular participation in anti-Jewish policy up to 1938 Michael Wildt
19. Nazi biopolitics: eugenics, racial policy, and the persecution of 'Asoziale,' 1933–1939 Richard F. Wetzell
20. 'Judenforschung' –Nazi Jewish studies Dirk Rupnow
21. Belonging and belongings: the dispossession of German Jews Christoph Kreutzmüller and Jonathan Zatlin
22. Kristallnacht Alan E. Steinweis
23. Lebensraum, autarky and a new imperial order Richard Overy
24. International responses to nazi race and Jewish policy, 1933–1939 Jonathan Wiesen.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]