Nathan Stoltzfus
Nathan Stoltzfus is an American historian and as of 2021[update] Dorothy and Jonathan Rintels Professor of Holocaust Studies in the history department at Florida State University. He has authored or edited many books.
Education and early career
[edit]Stoltzfus was educated at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana, (B.A. 1978) and Harvard University (PhD, 1993).[1]
While working on his PhD at Harvard, he was awarded an Einstein Institution Fellowship, which supported his work on the Rosenstrasse protest, a 1943 street protest in which mostly women saved about 1,500 men from the Holocaust in Nazi Germany during World War II. Stoltzfus continued as a Graduate Affiliate of the Program on Nonviolent Sanctions.[2]
Career
[edit]Stolzfus is noted for his work on protest during the Nazi era,[3] particularly the Rosenstrasse Protest that has sparked debate and discussion about the possibility and impact of protest in Nazi Germany.[4]
Stoltzfus has done work on the impact of the Cold War and its demise on national memories and representations of World War II in several European countries.[citation needed]
Publications
[edit]Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany (1996)[5][6] was co-recipient of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. German and French translations carried a foreword by German Foreign Minister, Joschka Fischer.[7] American historian Walter Laqueur wrote in his foreword that "Stoltzfus is the first to investigate the events leading to the protest systematically and in depth, [including] interviews with surviving participants and eyewitnesses... and it is to Dr. Stoltzfus's great credit that he has saved from oblivion some of these unsung heroes".[6] In Britain the book was a New Statesman "Book of the Year". It was #2 on the German Bestenliste for non-fiction in October 1999 and a Main Selection of the Swedish Book Club Clio in 2004.[1] Die Zeit called it the "standard work" on the protest, which was the center of a little Historikerstreit. Die Zeit reported in 2013 that the protest action in the Rosenstrasse was a long almost forgotten episode of Nazi history, but when Stoltzfus wrote about it, he unleashed an "ongoing controversy".[8]
He has contributed to other books including Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany[9] (Princeton University Press, 2001), co-edited with Robert Gellately; Shades of Green: Environmental Activism around the Globe[10] (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), co-edited with Doug Weiner and Christof Mauch, Courageous Resistance: The Power of Ordinary People[11] (Palgrave MacMillan, 2007), co-authored with five professors of history, political science, and sociology; Nazi Crimes and the Law[12] (Cambridge University Press, 2008), co-edited with Henry Friedlander.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Nathan Stoltzfus". Department of History. Florida State University. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
- ^ The First Five Years: 1983–1988 and Plans for the Future: President's report (PDF) (Report). The Albert Einstein Institution. 1988. pp. 11, 13–14, 35. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
- ^ "Helden ohne Namen". Einestages/Der Spiegel. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
- ^ "Rosenstraße - h-german discussion forum". July 2004. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
- ^ Geyer, Michael (1998). "Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany". Journal of Church and State. Archived from the original on 2013-10-05.
- ^ a b Stoltzfus, Nathan (1996). Resistance of the heart: intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse protest in Nazi Germany. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-8135-2909-7.
- ^ Joschka Fischer, translation into English by Christine Schurtman. "Foreword to "Resistance of the Heart"". Archived from the original on 2008-02-25. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
- ^ Die Zeit (German)
- ^ Gellately, Robert; Stoltzfus, Nathan (2001). Social outsiders in Nazi Germany. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-08684-2.
- ^ Mauch, Christof; Stoltzfus, Nathan; Weiner, Douglas R. (2006). Shades of green: environmental activism around the globe. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-4648-6.
- ^ E. Thalhammer, Kristina; L. O'Loughlin, Paula; Glazer, Myron; Glazer, Penina Migdal; McFarland, Sam; Stoltzfus, Nathan; Toffey Shepela, Sharon (25 September 2007). Courageous Resistance: The Power of Ordinary People. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-8498-2.
- ^ Stoltzfus, Nathan; Friedlander, Henry (2008). Nazi crimes and the law. Washington, D.C.: German Historical Institute. ISBN 978-0-521-89974-1.
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