Studies of the Simon Dubnow Institute

Volume 18

Joseph Wulf

Ein Historikerschicksal in Deutschland

Studies of the Dubnow Institute, Joseph Wulf, 2013

The Auschwitz survivor Joseph Wulf (1912–1974) was in the nineteenfifties the first to publish books on the Holocaust in Germany. Several years ago, a controversy erupted around him regarding early research in the Federal Republic on National Socialism. At its center was the question: whether German contemporary historical inquiry was geared to an apologetics of national history, and systematically excluded the Jewish historical experience – the perspective of the victims.

Klaus Kempter illuminates this question anew looking at Joseph Wulf's life and work. He revises and corrects the previously predominant image of Wulf as a tragic and failed life, seemingly confirmed by his suicide in 1974. By dint of his origin and chosen path in life, Wulf was an outsider; yet his publications made a key contribution to knowledge about National Socialism. This first biography of Wulf will appear on the centennial of his birth on 22 December 2012.

422 pp. with 11 illustrations

Hardcover with dust jacket

Göttingen/Bristol, Conn.: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013

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Reviews

Klaus-Peter Friedrich, in: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 64 (2015), no. 2, 299–301.

Barbara Distel, in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 62 (2014), no. 2, 180–182.

Markus Bitterolf, in: Informationen 79 (2014), 45.

Ferenc Laczó, in: transversal. Zeitschrift für jüdische Studien 14 (2013) [2014], no. 2, 155–157.

Rainer Huhle, in: Nürnberger Menschenrechtszentrum, 3 August 2013.

Jörg Später, in: FAZ, 16 April 2013, 26.

Hendrik Niether, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 12 April 2013.

Stephan Grigat, in: Jungle World no. 11 (2013), 14 March 2013, 20–21.

Rainer Blasius, in: FAZ, 4 March 2013, 8.

Stefan Berkholz, in: Deutschlandradio, Lesart, 3 March 2013.

Uwe Ulrich, in: Citizen Times, 22 Febuary 2013, zugleich in: Junge Freiheit, 29 March 2013.

Pieke Biermann, in: Deutschlandradio, Radiofeuilleton: Kritik, 30 January 2013.

Evelyn Adunka, in: David 25 (2013), no. 98, 89.

Stefan Berkholz, in: Freiburger Rundbrief (2013), no. 3, 219 –220.

Ludwig Elm, in: Marxistische Blätter 51 (2013), no. 4, 104–109.

Andrea Löw, in: Birthe Kundrus/Sybille Steinbacher (eds.), Kontinuitäten und Diskontinuitäten. Der Nationalsozialismus in der Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Göttingen 2013, 189–192. [Sammelrezension]

Wolf-Dieter Narr, in: Das Argument 303 (2013), 593–609.

René Schlott, in: Das Historisch-Politische Buch 61 (2013), no. 6, 586–587.

Katharina Stengel, in: Einsicht 09. Bulletin des Fritz Bauer Instituts (2013), 97–98.

Ulrich Wyrwa, in: Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, Journal of the Fondazione CDEC (2013), no. 6.

Stefan Berkholz, in: WDR3, Kultur am Sonntag, 16 December 2012. [Interview]

al [Andrea Livnat], , in: HaGalil.com, 20 December 2012.