Rehabilitating Exile
Rehabilitating Exile
This chapter examines the fact that neo-Baronians and Zionists have placed the Holocaust in a similar relationship to the mainstream of Jewish history, given that founders of academic Zionist historiography not only did not reject “reading history backward” in principle but actually raised such reading to the level of a virtue. Those forebears—Gershom Scholem, Ben Zion Dinaburg (Dinur), Yitzhak Baer, and Yehezkel Kaufmann—proceeded from the assumption that “all historical writing treats earlier times from the perspective of the present, interpreting and explaining them according to its [current] concerns and outlook.” The chapter also discusses Dinur's contributions to Holocaust research in Israel.
Keywords: Jewish history, Jews, Zionist historiography, Holocaust, historians, Ben Zion Dinaburg
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