Of the thousands of children and young adults who fled Nazi Germany in the years before the Second World War, a remarkable number went on to become trained historians in their adopted homelands. By placing autobiographical testimonies alongside historical analysis and professional reflections, this richly varied collection comprises the first sustained effort to illuminate the role these men and women played in modern historiography. Focusing particularly on those who settled in North America, Great Britain, and Israel, it culminates in a comprehensive, meticulously researched biobibliographic guide that provides a systematic overview of the lives and works of this second generation.

James J. Sheehan is Dickason Professor in the Humanities and Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University. He has written five books, most recentlyWhere Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe(2009). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Orden Pour le Mérite. In 2005 he served as president of the American Historical Association.

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Preface
Hartmut Lehmann and James J. Sheehan

Introduction: Refugees from Nazi Germany as Historians: Origins and Migrations, Interests and Identities
Andreas W. Daum

PART I: TESTIMONIES

Chapter 1. It Needs Hardly Emphasis How Deeply My Own Generation, the Second, is Indebted to the First
Klemens von Klemperer

Chapter 2. A Wanderer between Several Worlds
Walter Laqueur

Chapter 3. External Events, Inner Drives
Peter Paret

Chapter 4. Not Exile, But a New Life
Fritz Stern

Chapter 5. History and Social Action beyond National and Continental Borders
Georg G. Iggers

Chapter 6. Some Issues and Experiences in German-American Scholarly Relations
Gerhard L. Weinberg

Chapter 7. Some Reflections on the Second Generation
Hanna Holborn Gray

Chapter 8. A Life Between Homelands
Peter Loewenberg

Chapter 9.Out of Germany
Renate Bridenthal

PART II: APPROACHING THE SECOND GENERATION

Chapter 10. The Second Generation: Émigré Historians of Modern Germany in Post-War America
Catherine Epstein

Chapter 11. Thinking About the Second Generation Conceptually
Volker R. Berghahn

PART III: ÉMIGRÉS AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY

Chapter 12. The Tensions of HistoricalWissenschaft: The Émigré Historians and the Making of German Cultural History
Steven E. Aschheim

Chapter 13. From the Margins to the Mainstream: Refugees and the Successors on the Jewish Questions, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust in German History
Jeffrey Herf

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

Chapter 15. Out of the Limelight or In: Raul Hilberg, Gerhard Weinberg, Henry Friedlander, and the Historical Study of the Holocaust
Doris L. Bergen

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

PART IV: COMPARATIVE AND TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

Chapter 17. German Émigré Historians in Israel
Shulamit Volkov

Chapter 18. German and Austrian Émigré Historians in Britain after 1933
Peter Alter

Chapter 19. The Second-Generation Émigrés Impact on German Historiography
Philipp Stelzel

Chapter 20. Encounters with Émigré Historians of the First and Second Generation
Gerhard A. Ritter

Chapter 21. Influences: A Personal Comment
Jürgen Kocka

PART V: BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDE

Chapter 22. Émigrés in the Historical Disciplines: Research Perspectives
Andreas W. Daum

Chapter 23. Biographies
Andreas W. Daum and Sherry L. Föhr

Selected Bibliography
Index