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Preface All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages Hartmut Lehmai for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, induding photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, Refugees from Nazi without written permission of the publisher. Origins and Migrat Andreas W. Daui Libraty of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Daum, Andreas W I Lehmann, Hartmut, 1936- I Sheehan, James J. Tide: Tue second generation : Emigres from Nazi as historians / edited by 1. lt Hardly Needs En Andreas W Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, and James J. Sheehan. Is Deeply Indebted Description: New York: Berghahn Books, 2016. I Series: Studies in German history; Klemens von Kle1 volume 20 1Indudes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 20150338321 ISBN 9781782389859 (hardback: alkaline paper) 1 ISBN 9781782389934 (ebook)- 2. "A Wanderer betwe1 Subjects: LCSH: Germany-Historiography-Philosophy. 1Historiography_:_ Walter Laqueur Philosophy. 1 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)-Historiography-Philosophy. l Historians-Biography. 1Intergenerational relations. 1Immigrants-Biography. 3. External Events, Inn I Political refugees-Biography. 1 -Biography. 1 Germans­ Peter Paret Foreign countries-Biography. 1Germany-History-1933-1945-Biography. Classification: LCC DD86 .S53 2016 I DDC 907.2/02331-dc23 4. Not Exile, But a Ne1 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015033832 Fritz Stern

5. History and Social A British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Georg G. Iggers A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library 6. Some Issues and Exf Gerhard L. "Wein1 ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-78238-993-4 (ebook) 7. Some Reflections on Ranna Holborn , CoNTENTS

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Preface xi short passages Hartmut Lehmann and James J Sheehan :t of this book s, electronic or INTRODUCTION r any information be invented, Refugees from Nazi Germany as Historians: lisher. Origins and Migrations, Interests and Identities 1 Andreas W Daum 1tion Data PART 1. TESTIMONIES iheehan, James J. · as historians / edited by 1. lt Hardly Needs Emphasis That My Own Generation, the Second, eehan. Is Deeply Indebted to the First 55 :udies in German history ; :x. Klemens von Klemperer ardback: alkaline paper) J 2. "A Wanderer between Several Worlds" 59

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1graphy-Philosophy. J mmigrants-Biography. 3. External Events, Inner Drives 72 3iography. J Germans­ Peter Paret . 933-1945-Biography. l-dc23 4. Not Exile, But a New Life 79 Fritz Stern

5. History and Social Action beyond National and Continental Borders 82 ionData Georg G. Iggers the British Library 6. Some Issues and Experiences in German-American Scholarly Relations 97 Gerhard L. Weinberg ck) k) 7. Some Reflections on the Second Generation 102 Hanna Holborn Gray

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8. A Life between Homelands 114 18. German and Austri: Peter Loewenberg Peter Alter

9. Out ofGermany 130 19. Tue Second-Genera ,Renate Bridenthal Philipp Stelzet

PART II. Af>PROACHING THE SECOND GENERATION 20. Encounters with Er Gerhard A. Ritte, 10. Tue Second Generation: Emigre Historians of Modern Germany in Postwar America 21. Influences: A Perso1 Catherine Epstein Jürgen Kocka

11. Thinking about the Second Generation Conceptually 152 Volker R. Berghahn 22. Emigres in the Hist p ARf III. EMIGRES AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY Andreas W. Dau1

12. Tue Tensions of Historical Wissenschaft: Tue Emigre Historians 23. Biographies and the Making of German Cultural History 177 Andreas W. Dau1 Steven E. Aschheim 24. Selected Bibliograpl 13. From the Margins to the Mainstream: Refugees and the Successors on the Jewish Question, , and Index in German History 197 Jejfrey He,f

14. Reluctant Return: Peter Gay and the Cosmopolitan Work of a Historian 210 Helmut Walser Smith

15. Out of the Limelight or In: Rau! Hilberg, , Henry Friedlander, and the Historical Study of the Holocaust 229 Doris L. Bergen

16. Blazing New Paths in Historiography: "Refugee Effect" and American Experience in the Professional Trajectory of Gerda Lerner 244 Marjorie Lamberti

PART JY. COMPARATIVE AND TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

17. German Emigre Historians in Israel 261 Shulamit Volkov Contents I vii

114 18. German andAustrian Emigre Historians in Britain after 1933 271 Peter Alter

130 19. Tue Second-Generation Emigres' Impact on German Historiography 287 Philipp Stelze!

GENERATION 20. Encounters wich Emigre Historians of the First and Second Generation 304 Gerhard A. Ritter

143 21. Influences: A Personal Comment 318 Jürgen Kocka ally 152 PARTY. ßIOBIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDE

22. Emigres in the Historical Disciplines: Research Perspectives 327 ; OFHISTORY Andreas W Daum re Historians 23. Biographies 339 177 Andreas W Daum and Sherry L. Föhr

24. Selected Bibliography 454 1d the and Index 463 197

210 i Weinberg, e Holocaust 229 ffect" and American

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