Alon Confino

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Alon Confino is an Israeli[1][2][3] cultural historian. He currently serves as the Director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies and a Professor of History and Judaic Studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst.

He grew up in Jerusalem,[4] and studied at the University of Tel Aviv (BA) and University of California, Berkeley (MA & PHD).[5]

Works[edit]

  • Confino, Alon (1997). The Nation as a Local Metaphor: Württemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871-1918. UNC Press Books. ISBN 978-0-8078-4665-0.[6][7][8][9][10][11]
  • Confino, Alon (2006). Germany As a Culture of Remembrance: Promises And Limits of Writing History. UNC Press Books. ISBN 978-0-8078-5722-9.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
  • Confino, Alon (2011). Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-50218-4.[19][20][21][22][23][24]
  • Confino, Alon (2014). A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-19046-5.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Wilkommen go hÉirinn". www.drb.ie.
  2. ^ Gopnik, Adam. "Why We Keep Studying the Holocaust". The New Yorker.
  3. ^ Taylor, Simon; Stammers, Tom (5 July 2017). An Analysis of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. CRC Press. ISBN 9781351352321 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Alon Confino". Department of History | UMass Amherst. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Prof. Alon Confino". www.tau.ac.il.
  6. ^ Crane, Susan A. (July 1999). ". By Alon Confino (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1997) 280 pp. $55.00 cloth $19.95 paper". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 30 (1): 129–131. doi:10.1162/jinh.1999.30.1.129. S2CID 142539351.
  7. ^ Buschmann, Rainer F. (3 March 2002). "The Nation as a Local Metaphor: Wurttemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871-1918, and: Colonial Fantasies: Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870 (review)". Journal of World History. 13 (1): 237–241. doi:10.1353/jwh.2002.0003. ISSN 1527-8050. S2CID 144801449.
  8. ^ Lenman, Robin (September 2000). ". By Alon Confino. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xiii+280. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper)". The Journal of Modern History. 72 (3): 831–832. doi:10.1086/316080.
  9. ^ "Alon Confino. <italic>The Nation as a Local Metaphor: Württemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871–1918</italic>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. Pp. xiii, 280". The American Historical Review. October 1999. doi:10.1086/ahr/104.4.1260.
  10. ^ "H-German: Reviews | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  11. ^ Neaman, Elliot (2000). "Review of The Nation as a Local Metaphor; Württemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871–1918". German Politics & Society. 18 (4 (57)): 138–142. doi:10.3167/104503000782486471. ISSN 1045-0300. JSTOR 23737479.
  12. ^ "Silence and Repression". The Hedgehog Review. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  13. ^ Sperber, Jonathan (28 November 2007). "Germany as a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History. By Alon Confino. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 2006. Pp. xvii+306. Cloth $59.95. ISBN 0-8078-3042-9. Paper $24.95. ISBN 0-8078-5722-x". Central European History. 40 (4): 740–742. doi:10.1017/S0008938907001185. S2CID 145247377.
  14. ^ Gudehus, Christian (October 2008). "Review: Alon Confino, Germany as a Culture of Remembrance. Promises and Limits of Writing History, University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, 2006; 306 pp., 45 illus.; 9780807857229, $59.95 (hbk)". European History Quarterly. 38 (4): 647–648. doi:10.1177/02656914080380040307. S2CID 144288903.
  15. ^ Redding, Kimberly (10 January 2020). ". By Alon Confino. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 306. $24.95.)". The Historian. 70 (2): 367–368. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2008.00213_45.x. S2CID 143184261.
  16. ^ Hagen, William W. (September 2008). ". By Alon Confino. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xvii+306. $59.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper)". The Journal of Modern History. 80 (3): 708–711. doi:10.1086/593440.
  17. ^ Crew, D. F. (1 September 2008). "Germany as a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History. By Alon Confino (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xvii plus 306 pp. $24.95 PB)". Journal of Social History. 42 (1): 247–249. doi:10.1353/jsh.0.0045. S2CID 142649563.
  18. ^ "Holian on Confino, 'Germany as a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History' | H-German | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  19. ^ Lawson, Tom (24 October 2014). "Alon Confino". Journal of Contemporary History. 49 (4): 860–862. doi:10.1177/0022009414550269h. S2CID 163777516.
  20. ^ Dobkowski, Michael N. (2011). "Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  21. ^ Kühne, Thomas (1 June 2012). "Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding (review)". German Studies Review. 35 (2): 435–437. ISSN 2164-8646.
  22. ^ Fritzsche, Peter (December 2012). "By Alon Confino (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2012) 191 pp. $85.00 cloth $24.99 paper". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 43 (3): 486–488. doi:10.1162/JINH_r_00443. S2CID 142313926.
  23. ^ Steigmann-Gall, R. (29 October 2013). "Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding". German History. 32 (1): 157–158. doi:10.1093/gerhis/ght089.
  24. ^ Goldberg, Amos; Smith, Helmut Walser; Gigliotti, Simone; Buggeln, Marc; Confino, Alon (3 February 2016). "Alon Confino, (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and (Yale University Press, 2014)". Journal of Genocide Research. 18 (1): 101–131. doi:10.1080/14623528.2016.1120470. S2CID 147242635.