History, Counterhistory, and Narrative

Amos Funkenstein

1993

An offshoot of the Nazi counterhistory still lives forth in the various apologetic-polemical exercises known as “revisionist” literature. It is a name given (inter alia) to a distinct group of writings—books, articles, pamphlets—that deny the fact of the Nazi genocide of the Jews. Of the various examples of counterhistories, this is the most recent…

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Amos Funkenstein

1937–1995

Born in Tel Aviv, Amos Funkenstein taught Jewish history at the University of California, Berkeley and was the Maser Chair in History and Philosophy of Science at Tel Aviv University. The recipient of the Israel Prize for History, he devoted his scholarship to the study of Judaism, medieval intellectualism, and science.

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