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Alon Confino

Israeli historian (1959–2024) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Alon Confino (Hebrew: אלון קונפינו; 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]

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Works

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