David Cesarani

Bio: David Cesarani is an academic researcher from Royal Holloway, University of London. The author has contributed to research in topics: The Holocaust & Judaism. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 68 publications receiving 1078 citations. Previous affiliations of David Cesarani include University of Southampton & University of Cambridge.

Citizenship, Nationality and Migration in Europe

Abstract: Introduction. David Cesarani and Mary Fulbrook Part One: The European Context 1. The legal framework regulating citizenship of the EU Elspeth Guild 2. Changing citizenship in Europe: Remarks on postnational membership and the nation state Yasemin Soysal Part Two: Citizenship, Nationality and the Construction of Identity 3. The changing character of citizenship and nationality in Britain David Cesarani 4. The revenge of civil society: state, nation and society in France Max Silverman 5. Germany for the Germans? Citizenship and nationality in a divided nation Mary Fulbrook 6. Italy Enrico Pugliese Part Three: The Politicisation of 'Difference' 7. The spice of life? Ethnic difference, politics and culture in modern Britain Tony Kushner 8. France Patrick Weil 9. Migration, refugees and ethnic plurality as issues of public and political debates in (West) Germany Karen Schonwalder 10. The northern league in Italy: Changing friends and foe, and its political opportunity structure Carlo Ruzza and Oliver Schmidtke Conclusion. David Cesarani and Mary Fulbrook

Eichmann: His Life and Crimes

Abstract: Many historians have told the story of the Holocaust, but somehow the character of the man who was its architect has slipped through the gaps - there has been no book devoted to him since he died, after the trial - in Israel - that more than any other event brought the Holocaust to the attention of a world that had been trying to forget it had ever happened Professor Cesarani's book will tell Eichmann's story and through it the story of the Final Solution, incorporating the latest scholarship on the origins and implementation of the Nazi genocide.

Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes, and Trial of a ""Desk Murderer""

Abstract: A monumental and groundbreaking biography of the architect of theNazi's Final Solution, and one of the icons of evil in our age. AdolfEichmann was at the centre of the Nazi genocide against the Jews ofEurope between 1941 and 1945. He was directly responsible fortransporting over 2 million Jews to their deaths in Auschwitz-Birkenauand other death camps. Yet he was an obscure figure until hissensational capture by the Israeli Secret Service in Argentina in 1960, and his subsequent trial in Jerusalem. This study is the first account ofEichmann's life to appear since the aftermath of his trial. It is agroundbreaking biography of one of the most fascinating of the Nazileaders

The Internment of Aliens in Twentieth Century Britain

Abstract: These essays reveal the role of British intelligence in the roundups of European refugees and expose the subversion of democratic safeguards. They examine the oppression of internment in general and its specific effect on women, as well as the artistic and cultural achievements of internees.

The Making of modern Anglo-Jewry

Abstract: 1. Introduction Part I: Class and Community 2. East and West: Class and Community in Manchester Jewry, 1850 - 1914 BILL WILLIAMS 3. Trades Unionism Amongst the Jewish Tailoring Workers of London and Leeds, 1872 - 1915 ANNE KERSHEN Part II: Gender 4. Jewish Women and the Household Economy in Manchester, c.1890 - 1920 RICKIE BURMAN Part III: Culture 5. The Acculturation of the Children of Immigrant Jews in Manchester, 1890 - 1920 ROSALYN LIVSHIN 6. The Other Self: Anglo-Jewish Fiction and the Representation of Jews in England, 1875 - 1905 BRYAN CHEYETTE Part IV: Politics 7. The Transformation of Communal Authority in Anglo-Jewry, 1914 - 1940 DAVID CESARANI 8. Jews and Politics in the East End of London 1918 - 1939 ELAINE SMITH 9. Jewish Refugees and British Government Policy, 1930 - 1940 LOUISE LONDON 10. The Impact of British Anti-Semitism, 1918 - 1945 TONY KUSHNER.

The rights of others : aliens, residents, and citizens

Abstract: Introduction 1. On hospitality: rereading Kant's cosmopolitan doctrine 2. 'The right to have rights': Hannah Arendt and the contradictions of the nation-state 3. The law of peoples, distributive justice and migrations 4. Transformations of citizenship: the case of the European Union 5. Democratic iterations: the local, the national and the global Conclusion References Index.

The Holocaust in American Life

Abstract: The Holocaust in American Life. By Peter Novick. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. Pp. 1, 373. Cloth, $27.00) In this engaging and important study, Peter Novick undertakes two primary tasks: to offer an historical account of how the Holocaust became such a prominent feature of American cultural and political life, and to question the widely held assumption that this prominence is an inherently good thing. In addition to these goals, Novick seeks to debunk the claim that the Holocaust stands apart from other atrocities as a unique purveyor of moral lessons. Indeed, he takes his case one step further by contending that, in the end, the Holocaust may actually offer no moral lessons at all. In tracing the history of the Holocaust in American life, Novick is largely successful. Like other recent scholarship on this themes, Novick argues that, while Americans were not silent about Nazi atrocities during and immediately after the war, the "Holocaust" was not recognized as a discrete historical event until decades later. In contending that the Holocaust became more ubiquitous in American cultural and political life after 1968 than it had been in the postwar years, Novick rejects psychoanalytically informed accounts that explain this lag in terms of "trauma" or "repression." Drawing on a wide range of published and unpublished sources, Novick argues that in the years following World War II, public discussion of the Holocaust was muted because it ran counter not only to the aims of organized American Jewry, but to the broader cultural and political climate of postwar America. The demands of the Cold War and the new alliance between Germany and the United States required that Stalinism, rather than the Holocaust, be cast as the most damning crime of the modern age. Leaders of the American Jewish community promulgated this view and were largely silent about the Holocaust in an attempt to dispel stereotypes that identified Jews with both Bolshevism and eternal victimhood. An excessive public preoccupation with the Holocaust was seen as incompatible with a rapidly assimilating American Jewish community, determined to participate fully in euphoric postwar prosperity. While the destruction of European Jewry was surely a "widely shared Jewish sorrow" during these years, it was, according to Novick, a sorrow shared largely in private. By the mid-1960s, this had begun to change. Novick cites the 1961 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann and the subsequent publication of Hannah Arendt's controversial Eichmann in Jerusalem as two of the major catalysts for a growing public discussion of the Holocaust. A less obvious claim is that the heightened public preoccupation with the Holocaust in the late 1960s and 1970s coincided with the birth of identity politics, reflecting both a broader shift away from an integrationist ethos to a particularist one, and the growth of a "victim culture" that increasingly valorized oppression and suffering over heroism. While not everyone may agree with Novick's implicitly critical definition of identity politics, this is an important dimension of his argument, for it offers a compelling, if only partial explanation for the ubiquity of the Holocaust in contemporary American life. It was only within a political culture that valorized victimization that the Holocaust could become the locus of so many strong and contradictory feelings, including possessiveness, proprietariness, envy, and resentment. Novick is also interested in how, by the late 1960s, a growing public Holocaust discourse reflected the shifting priorities of organized American Jewry, and here, too, he offers an illuminating account of how Jewish leaders once reticent about the Holocaust were now placing it at the top of their political agendas. In their concern over escalating rates of intermarriage and waning interest in organized Judaism, leaders now seized on the Holocaust in order to shore up a sense of American Jewish identity and to caution American Jews against the dangers of complacency. …

Europe as a Social Process and Discourse Considerations of Place, Boundaries and Identity

Abstract: During the 1990s competing images emerged of what constitutes European identity, who belongs to it, and what are its internal and external boundaries. This has forced reflection on the links betwee...

Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism

Abstract: Authoritarian populist parties have advanced in many countries, and entered government in states as diverse as Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland. Even small parties can still shift the policy agenda, as demonstrated by UKIP's role in catalyzing Brexit. Drawing on new evidence, this book advances a general theory why the silent revolution in values triggered a backlash fuelling support for authoritarian-populist parties and leaders in the US and Europe. The conclusion highlights the dangers of this development and what could be done to mitigate the risks to liberal democracy.

The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution

Abstract: Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies, Henry Friedlander explores how the Nazi programme of secretly exterminating the handicapped and disabled evolved into the systematic destruction of Jews and Gypsies. He describes how the so-called euthanasia of the handicapped provided a practical model for the later mass murder, thereby initiating the Holocaust. The Nazi regime pursued the extermination of Jews, Gypsies and the handicapped based on a belief in the biological, and thus absolute, inferiority of those groups. To document the connection between the assault on the handicapped and the Final Solution, Friedlander shows how the legal restrictions and exclusionary policies of the 1930s, including mass sterilization, led to mass murder during the war. He also makes clear that the killing centres where the handicapped were gassed and cremated served as the models for the extermination camps. Based on extensive archival research, the book also analyzes the involvement of the German bureaucracy and judiciary, the participation of physicians and scientists, and the nature of popular opposition.