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Sources of Holocaust Research: An Analysis »

Authors: Raul Hilberg
ISBN-13: 9781566633796, ISBN-10: 1566633796
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
Date Published: September 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Raul Hilberg

Book Synopsis

The acknowledged master of Holocaust historians offers an analysis of the nature of the sources, with attention to structure, style, and content.

Kimberlee Roth -

Exemplary...gives readers insight into not only the potential value and challenges to the researcher, but into the Holocaust itself.

	Preface	7
1	Types of Sources	13
	Three-dimensional and two-dimensional materials. In three dimensions: structures and objects
	In two dimensions: pictorial and verbal items. In verbal form: documents and testimony
	Documentary: published and confidential. In confidential: circulating and noncirculating
	In circulating: directions of flow (orders, letters, reports)
	In noncirculating: personnel records, notes, official and private diaries
	Testimony: legal, interviews, oral history, memoirs
2	Composition	50
	In documents: signing, sequences, formats, density, distribution, security classifications, notations, storage, survivability
	In testimony: answers to questions, segmentation, and complex themes
3	Style	72
	Prosaic Formulations	73
	Lists and "problem solving."
	Special Words and Symbols	86
	Required nouns and favored verbs and adjectives
	Blunt and Blunted Language	106
	Unvarnished expression. Veiled usage in legitimation, in cover words, and in roundabout formulations
	Flourishes	121
	Iconic, vernacular, wit, wordplay, and irony
4	Content	133
	Premises	134
	Basic presumptions and derivative postulations
	Kinds of Information	142
	Detail, nonoccurrence in coverage, hearsay
	Omissions	164
	In documents: excluded background known to recipients, and cryptic notation. In testimony: excluded background not known to readers; inability to describe experiences; self-censorship; initial reluctance and delayed disclosure
	Falsity	175
	Common errors in rendition, errors of memory, denial of facts, and fabrication
5	Usability	184
	Principles of exploitation: significance, nonexchangeability, interlinkage
	Possibilities of exploitation: from exceptional releases to exceptional withholding
	Index	205

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