Berghahn Books: 740 books
Andrzej Wajda
History, Politics & Nostalgia In Polish Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
The work of Andrzej Wajda, one of the world’s most important filmmakers, shows remarkable cohesion in spite of the wide ranging scope of his films, as this study of his complete output of feature films shows. Not only do his films address crucial historical, social and political issues; the complexity...
The Arts in Nazi Germany
Continuity, Conformity, Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Culture and the arts played a central role in the ideology and propaganda of National Socialism from the early years of the movement until the last months of the Third Reich in 1945. Hitler and his followers believed that art and culture were expressions of race, and that “Aryans” alone were capable...
Children in the Holocaust and its Aftermath
Historical and Psychological Studies of the Kestenberg Archive
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as children pose distinct emotional and intellectual challenges for researchers: as now-adult interviewees recall profound childhood experiences of suffering and persecution, they also invoke their own historical awareness and memories of their...
Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History
Imperialism, Nation, Race, and Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951). She claimed that theories of race, notions of racial and cultural superiority, and the right of ‘superior races’...
The Americanization of Europe
Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism after 1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
Recent tensions between the U.S. and Europe seem to have opened up an insuperable rift, while Americanization, deplored by some, welcomed by others, seems to progress unabated. This volume explores, for the first time and in a comparative manner, the role American culture and anti-Americanism play...
Balkan Departures
Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive − traits that serve (according to many commentators) as a foil to self-congratulatory definitions of the West as modern,...
Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
Dilemmas and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
German Jews faced harsh dilemmas in their responses to Nazi persecution, partly a result of Nazi cruelty and brutality but also a result of an understanding of their history and rightful place in Germany. This volume addresses the impact of the anti-Jewish policies of Hitler’s regime on Jewish family...
Vienna Is Different
Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin-de-Siècle to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Assessing the impact of fin-de-siècle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city that stood at the center of Jewish life in the...
The Devil's Captain
Ernst Jünger in Nazi Paris, 1941-1944
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Author of Nazi Paris, a Choice Academic Book of the Year, Allan Mitchell has researched a companion volume concerning the acclaimed and controversial German author Ernst Jünger who, if not the greatest German writer of the twentieth century, certainly was the most controversial. His service as a...
Russian Postmodernism
New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Recent decades have been decisive for Russia not only politically but culturally as well. The end of the Cold War has enabled Russia to take part in the global rise and crystallization of postmodernism. This volume investigates the manifestations of this crucial trend in Russian fiction, poetry, art,...
Framing Africa
Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The first decade of the 21st century has seen a proliferation of North American and European films that focus on African politics and society. While once the continent was the setting for narratives of heroic ascendancy over self (The African Queen, 1951; The Snows of Kilimanjaro, 1952), military...
Judging 'Privileged' Jews
Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone'
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The Nazis’ persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their persecutors. Many in the camps and ghettos came to hold so-called “privileged” positions, and their behavior has often been judged as self-serving...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as important...
The Modernist Imagination
Intellectual History and Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities currently takes place at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. Just as critical theorists are becoming more aware of the historicity of theory, contemporary practitioners of modern intellectual history are recognizing...