The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as HistoriansWith a Biobibliographic Guide(20 Studies in German History)

Of the thousands of children and young adults who fled Nazi Germany in the years before the Second World War, a remarkable number went on to become trained historians in their adopted homelands. By placing autobiographical testimonies alongside historical analysis and professional reflections, this richly varied collection comprises the first sustained effort to illuminate the role these men and women played in modern historiography. Focusing particularly on those who settled in North America, Great Britain, and Israel, it culminates in a comprehensive, meticulously researched biobibliographic guide that provides a systematic overview of the lives and works of this “second generation.”

Table of Contents:
List of Tables Preface Hartmut Lehmann and James J. Sheehan Introduction: Refugees from Nazi Germany as Historians: Origins and Migrations, Interests and Identities Andreas W. Daum PART I: TESTIMONIES Chapter 1. “It Needs Hardly Emphasis How Deeply My Own Generation, the Second, is Indebted to the First” Klemens von Klemperer Chapter 2. “A Wanderer between Several Worlds” Walter Laqueur Chapter 3. External Events, Inner Drives Peter Paret Chapter 4. Not Exile, But a New Life Fritz Stern Chapter 5. History and Social Action beyond National and Continental Borders Georg G. Iggers Chapter 6. Some Issues and Experiences in German-American Scholarly Relations Gerhard L. Weinberg Chapter 7. Some Reflections on the Second Generation Hanna Holborn Gray Chapter 8. A Life Between Homelands Peter Loewenberg Chapter 9. Out of Germany Renate Bridenthal PART II: APPROACHING THE SECOND GENERATION Chapter 10. The Second Generation: Émigré Historians of Modern Germany in Post-War America Catherine Epstein Chapter 11. Thinking About the Second Generation Conceptually Volker R. Berghahn PART III: ÉMIGRÉS AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY Chapter 12. The Tensions of Historical Wissenschaft: The Émigré Historians and the Making of German Cultural History Steven E. Aschheim Chapter 13. From the Margins to the Mainstream: Refugees and the Successors on the Jewish Questions, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust in German History Jeffrey Herf Chapter 14. Reluctant Return: Peter Gay and the Cosmopolitan Work of a Historian Helmut Walser Smith Chapter 15. Out of the Limelight or In: Raul Hilberg, Gerhard Weinberg, Henry Friedlander, and the Historical Study of the Holocaust Doris L. Bergen Chapter 16. Blazing New Paths in Historiography: ‘Refugee Effect’ and American Experience in the Professional Trajectory of Gerda Lerner Marjorie Lamberti PART IV: COMPARATIVE AND TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Chapter 17. German Émigré Historians in Israel Shulamit Volkov Chapter 18. German and Austrian Émigré Historians in Britain after 1933 Peter Alter Chapter 19. The Second-Generation Émigrés’ Impact on German Historiography Philipp Stelzel Chapter 20. Encounters with Émigré Historians of the First and Second Generation Gerhard A. Ritter Chapter 21. Influences: A Personal Comment Jürgen Kocka PART V: BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDE Chapter 22. Émigrés in the Historical Disciplines: Research Perspectives Andreas W. Daum Chapter 23. Biographies Andreas W. Daum and Sherry L. Föhr Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Andreas W. Daum is Professor of History at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has authored several books on German and international history. A former John F. Kennedy Fellow at Harvard University, he is the recipient of fellowships from, among others, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Review :
“The contributions to this volume manage impressively to show the interconnections between life and work, describing the professional developments against the background of emigration as well as demonstrating the influence of the refugee experience on their historical works.” • Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft “This book sheds new light on a hitherto little-researched subject and will remain a standard work for years to come. It provides an admirable overview of the very heterogeneous second generation in the USA, and will certainly stimulate further research in the field.” • German Historical Institute London Bulletin “Especially the systematic approach turns the volume into an impressive stock-taking of a research area that should be examine further with innovative methods and original questions.” • H-Soz-Kult “This book represents a deeply personal, intellectually challenging, and historically important undertaking. I cannot recommend highly enough a book that packs so much learning and passion, tragedy and promise, between two covers.” • James Retallack, Professor of History, University of Toronto; Killam Research Fellow 2015-17 “This volume brings together memoirs from key second-generation historians, reminiscences from colleagues and students, and a detailed reference section containing critical biographical and professional information. It is a valuable resource.” • Marion Deshmukh, George Mason University