The first Jewish historians of the Holocaust pioneered the study of the Holocaust from the perspective of Jewish experience. They also redefined the concept of Jewish resistance. Overlooked, argues Smith, is that the works of these historians are united by a shared commitment to writing in Yiddish and to a research agenda arising from the prewar traditions of Yiddish historical scholarship.

Mark L. Smith

(UCLA)

Cosponsored by
The UCLA Department of History
The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages
The 1939 Society