Alon Confino Explained

Alon Confino (April 1, 1959 – June 27, 2024) was an Israeli cultural historian.^{[1] [2] [3]} He served 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.

Confino grew up in Jerusalem,^[4] and studied at the University of Tel Aviv (BA) and University of California, Berkeley (MA & PHD).^[5] He died on June 27, 2024, at the age of 65.^[6]

Works

• Book: Confino . Alon . The Nation as a Local Metaphor: Württemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871-1918 . 1997 . UNC Press Books . 978-0-8078-4665-0 . en. ^{[7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]}
• Book: Confino . Alon . Germany As a Culture of Remembrance: Promises And Limits of Writing History . 2006 . UNC Press Books . 978-0-8078-5722-9 . en. ^{[13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]}
• Book: Confino . Alon . Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding . 2011 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-139-50218-4 . en. ^{[20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]}
• Book: Confino . Alon . A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide. A World Without Jews . 2014 . Yale University Press . 978-0-300-19046-5 . en.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wilkommen go hÉirinn. www.drb.ie.
2. Why We Keep Studying the Holocaust. Adam. Gopnik. The New Yorker.
3. Book: An Analysis of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. Simon. Taylor. Tom. Stammers. 5 July 2017. CRC Press. 9781351352321. Google Books.
4. Web site: Alon Confino . Department of History UMass Amherst . 23 May 2020.
5. Web site: Prof. Alon Confino. www.tau.ac.il.
6. https://www.umass.edu/news/article/memoriam-alon-confino In Memoriam: Alon Confino
7. Crane . Susan A. . . By Alon Confino (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1997) 280 pp. $55.00 cloth $19.95 paper . Journal of Interdisciplinary History . July 1999 . 30 . 1 . 129–131 . 10.1162/jinh.1999.30.1.129. 142539351 .
8. Buschmann . Rainer F. . 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 . 3 March 2002 . 13 . 1 . 237–241 . 10.1353/jwh.2002.0003 . 144801449 . en . 1527-8050.
9. Lenman . Robin . . 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 . September 2000 . 72 . 3 . 831–832 . 10.1086/316080.
10. Alon Confino. The Nation as a Local Metaphor: Württemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871–1918. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. Pp. xiii, 280 . The American Historical Review . October 1999 . 10.1086/ahr/104.4.1260.
11. Web site: H-German: Reviews H-Net . networks.h-net.org . 23 May 2020.
12. Neaman . Elliot . Review of The Nation as a Local Metaphor; Württemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871–1918 . German Politics & Society . 2000 . 18 . 4 (57) . 138–142 . 10.3167/104503000782486471 . 23737479 . 1045-0300.
13. Web site: Silence and Repression . The Hedgehog Review . 23 May 2020.
14. Sperber . Jonathan . 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. 0-8078-3042-9. Paper $24.95. 0-8078-5722-x. . Central European History . 28 November 2007 . 40 . 4 . 740–742 . 10.1017/S0008938907001185. 145247377 .
15. Gudehus . Christian . 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 . October 2008 . 38 . 4 . 647–648 . 10.1177/02656914080380040307. 144288903 .
16. Redding . Kimberly . . By Alon Confino. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xvii, 306. $24.95.) . The Historian . 10 January 2020 . 70 . 2 . 367–368 . 10.1111/j.1540-6563.2008.00213_45.x. 143184261 .
17. Hagen . William W. . . 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 . September 2008 . 80 . 3 . 708–711 . 10.1086/593440.
18. Crew . D. F. . 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 . 1 September 2008 . 42 . 1 . 247–249 . 10.1353/jsh.0.0045. 142649563 .
19. Web site: Holian on Confino, 'Germany as a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History' H-German H-Net . networks.h-net.org . 23 May 2020.
20. Lawson . Tom . Alon Confino . Journal of Contemporary History . 24 October 2014 . 49 . 4 . 860–862 . 10.1177/0022009414550269h. 163777516 .
21. Web site: Dobkowski . Michael N. . Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding . Jewish Book Council . 23 May 2020 . en . 2011.
22. Kühne . Thomas . Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding (review) . German Studies Review . 1 June 2012 . 35 . 2 . 435–437 . en . 2164-8646.
23. Fritzsche . Peter . By Alon Confino (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2012) 191 pp. $85.00 cloth $24.99 paper . Journal of Interdisciplinary History . December 2012 . 43 . 3 . 486–488 . 10.1162/JINH_r_00443 . 142313926 .
24. Steigmann-Gall . R. . Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding . German History . 29 October 2013 . 32 . 1 . 157–158 . 10.1093/gerhis/ght089.
25. Goldberg . Amos . Smith . Helmut Walser . Gigliotti . Simone . Buggeln . Marc . Confino . Alon . Alon Confino, (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and (Yale University Press, 2014) . Journal of Genocide Research . 3 February 2016 . 18 . 1 . 101–131 . 10.1080/14623528.2016.1120470. 147242635 .