Beschreibung
“For the last fifty years I have been studying the genocide
of the Jews, which
we call the Holocaust. For the last thirty years I have been studying antisemitism,
and for the last fifteen years genocide generally, and ways to prevent it. That is the
prism through which I view Jewish history, past and present – I prefer to look at it
from a contemporary point of view. That is also the way I view human history in
general. It is quite possible that this view from the present to the past is decisively
influenced by the fact that my professional life is determined by the most tragic
and serious issues that any historian, and most certainly a Jewish one, can deal
with: the Holocaust, antisemitism, and genocide.” (Yehuda
Bauer)
