Alon Confino

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Alon Confino is an Israeli [1] [2] [3] cultural historian. He currently serves as the Director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies and a Professor of History and Judaic Studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst.

He grew up in Jerusalem, [4] and studied at the University of Tel Aviv (BA) and University of California, Berkeley (MA & PHD). [5]

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  3. ↑ Taylor, Simon; Stammers, Tom (5 July 2017). An Analysis of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. CRC Press. ISBN   9781351352321 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ "Alon Confino". Department of History | UMass Amherst. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  5. ↑ "Prof. Alon Confino". www.tau.ac.il.
  6. ↑ Crane, Susan A. (July 1999). ". By Alon Confino (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1997) 280 pp. $55.00 cloth $19.95 paper". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 30 (1): 129–131. doi:10.1162/jinh.1999.30.1.129. S2CID   142539351.
  7. ↑ Buschmann, Rainer F. (3 March 2002). "The Nation as a Local Metaphor: Wurttemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871-1918, and: Colonial Fantasies: Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870 (review)". Journal of World History. 13 (1): 237–241. doi:10.1353/jwh.2002.0003. ISSN   1527-8050. S2CID   144801449.
  8. ↑ Lenman, Robin (September 2000). ". By Alon Confino. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xiii+280. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper)". The Journal of Modern History. 72 (3): 831–832. doi:10.1086/316080.
  9. ↑ "Alon Confino. <italic>The Nation as a Local Metaphor: Württemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871–1918</italic>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. Pp. xiii, 280". The American Historical Review. October 1999. doi:10.1086/ahr/104.4.1260.
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  12. ↑ "Silence and Repression". The Hedgehog Review. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  13. ↑ Sperber, Jonathan (28 November 2007). "Germany as a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History. By Alon Confino. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 2006. Pp. xvii+306. Cloth $59.95. ISBN 0-8078-3042-9. Paper $24.95. ISBN 0-8078-5722-x". Central European History. 40 (4): 740–742. doi:10.1017/S0008938907001185. S2CID   145247377.
  14. ↑ Gudehus, Christian (October 2008). "Review: Alon Confino, Germany as a Culture of Remembrance. Promises and Limits of Writing History, University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, 2006; 306 pp., 45 illus.; 9780807857229, $59.95 (hbk)". European History Quarterly. 38 (4): 647–648. doi:10.1177/02656914080380040307. S2CID   144288903.
  15. ↑ Redding, Kimberly (10 January 2020). ". By Alon Confino. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 306. $24.95.)". The Historian. 70 (2): 367–368. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2008.00213_45.x. S2CID   143184261.
  16. ↑ Hagen, William W. (September 2008). ". By Alon Confino. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xvii+306. $59.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper)". The Journal of Modern History. 80 (3): 708–711. doi:10.1086/593440.
  17. ↑ Crew, D. F. (1 September 2008). "Germany as a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History. By Alon Confino (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xvii plus 306 pp. $24.95 PB)". Journal of Social History. 42 (1): 247–249. doi:10.1353/jsh.0.0045. S2CID   142649563.
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  19. ↑ Lawson, Tom (24 October 2014). "Alon Confino". Journal of Contemporary History. 49 (4): 860–862. doi:10.1177/0022009414550269h. S2CID   163777516.
  20. ↑ Dobkowski, Michael N. (2011). "Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  21. ↑ Kühne, Thomas (1 June 2012). "Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding (review)". German Studies Review. 35 (2): 435–437. ISSN   2164-8646.
  22. ↑ Fritzsche, Peter (December 2012). "By Alon Confino (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2012) 191 pp. $85.00 cloth $24.99 paper". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 43 (3): 486–488. doi:10.1162/JINH_r_00443. S2CID   142313926.
  23. ↑ Steigmann-Gall, R. (29 October 2013). "Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding". German History. 32 (1): 157–158. doi:10.1093/gerhis/ght089.
  24. ↑ Goldberg, Amos; Smith, Helmut Walser; Gigliotti, Simone; Buggeln, Marc; Confino, Alon (3 February 2016). "Alon Confino, (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and (Yale University Press, 2014)". Journal of Genocide Research. 18 (1): 101–131. doi:10.1080/14623528.2016.1120470. S2CID   147242635.
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