Introduction: the lives and legacies of David Cesarani

Book chapter


Allwork Larissa and Pistol, Rachel 2019. Introduction: the lives and legacies of David Cesarani. in: Palgrave Macmillan.
AuthorsAllwork Larissa and Pistol, Rachel
Abstract

This introduction to the edited collection ‘The Jews, the Holocaust and the Public’ focuses on David Cesarani as autobiographer and biographer. It comprises a brief introduction to Cesarani’s life in academia, his own autobiographical essay and his interest in biography as an academic form, via his studies of Benjamin Disraeli, Arthur Koestler and Adolf Eichmann.
This chapter will present the new argument that these three figures can be interpreted as emblematic of three key overlapping themes in Cesarani’s broader research interests: Anglo-Jewish history; migration, minorities and nationalisms; and the Holocaust its history, the prosecution of the perpetrators and its ongoing legacies.
It is these themes that comprise a uniquely ‘Cesaranian’ interdisciplinary approach to the Holocaust. It is also these themes, sometimes separately, and at other times in combination, that will animate the considerations of the chapters in this volume for the ‘Holocaust and its Contexts’.

KeywordsDavid Cesarani, Holocaust, Anglo-Jewish studies
Year2019
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9783030286743
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28675-0
Web address (URL)http://hdl.handle.net/10545/624877
hdl:10545/624877
File
File Access Level
Open
File
Publication dates25 Nov 2019
Publication process dates
Deposited09 Jun 2020, 09:33
Accepted2019
ContributorsUniversity of Derby and Kings College London
Permalink -

https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/943v0/introduction-the-lives-and-legacies-of-david-cesarani

Download files

  • 41
    total views
  • 50
    total downloads
  • 0
    views this month
  • 1
    downloads this month

Export as

Related outputs

At Engagement's Edge: Heritage Experts and Holocaust Education in Belarus
Allwork, L. 2023. At Engagement's Edge: Heritage Experts and Holocaust Education in Belarus. Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History. pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2023.2261800
The Perversion of Holocaust Memory: Writing and Rewriting the Past after 1989
Larissa Allwork 2023. The Perversion of Holocaust Memory: Writing and Rewriting the Past after 1989. German History. Vol 41 (Issue 2), p. 321–323. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghad004
"Levelling Up and Social Mobility: The Role of Higher Education", in 'Levelling Up: What it is and can it work?'
Mitchell, K., Davis, G. and Allwork, L. 2022. "Levelling Up and Social Mobility: The Role of Higher Education", in 'Levelling Up: What it is and can it work?'. London, UK University of West London.
PEP Insights Research: The Experience of Public Engagement Professionals during Covid-19
Allwork, L., PEP Insights Research Team and NCCPE Research Team 2021. PEP Insights Research: The Experience of Public Engagement Professionals during Covid-19. Bristol NCCPE.
After the Holocaust: Facing the Nazi past in British and international perspective—an interview with David Cesarani
Allwork Larissa 2019. After the Holocaust: Facing the Nazi past in British and international perspective—an interview with David Cesarani. in: Palgrave Macmillan.
In advance of the broken image: Gerhard Richter and Gustav Metzger’s confrontations with Nazi criminality
Allwork Larissa 2019. In advance of the broken image: Gerhard Richter and Gustav Metzger’s confrontations with Nazi criminality. in: Palgrave Macmillan.
'Sedimented Histories' and 'Embodied Legacies': Creating an Evaluative Framework for Understanding Public Engagement in the First World War
Allwork, L. 2020. 'Sedimented Histories' and 'Embodied Legacies': Creating an Evaluative Framework for Understanding Public Engagement in the First World War. Research For All. 4 (1), pp. 66-86. https://doi.org/10.18546/RFA.04.1.06
Criminal Lives 1780-1925: Punishing Old Bailey Convicts
Allwork Larissa, Robert Shoemaker and Tim Hitchcock 2017. Criminal Lives 1780-1925: Punishing Old Bailey Convicts. London Metropolitan Archives.
Holocaust Education and Contemporary Anti-Semitism
Allwork, L. 2019. Holocaust Education and Contemporary Anti-Semitism. History and Policy.
Interrogating Europe’s Voids: Holocaust Trauma between the National and the Transnational
Allwork, L. 2016. Interrogating Europe’s Voids: Holocaust Trauma between the National and the Transnational. Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History. 10, pp. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.48248/issn.2037-741X/812
Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational: A Case Study of the Stockholm International Forum and the First Decade of the ITF
Allwork, L. 2015. Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational: A Case Study of the Stockholm International Forum and the First Decade of the ITF. Bloomsbury Academic.
Intercultural Legacies of the International Task Force: Lithuania and the British at the turn of the Millennium
Allwork, L. 2015. Intercultural Legacies of the International Task Force: Lithuania and the British at the turn of the Millennium. Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History. 19 (2), pp. 91-124.
Holocaust Remembrance as 'Civil Religion': The Case of the Stockholm Declaration
Allwork, L. 2015. Holocaust Remembrance as 'Civil Religion': The Case of the Stockholm Declaration. in: Popescu, D.I. and Schult, T. (ed.) Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era London, United Kingdom Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 288-304