Anton Weiss-Wendt
Anton Weiss-Wendt (geboren 27. Mai 1973 in Narva, Estnische SSR) ist ein estnischer Historiker.
Leben
Anton Weiss-Wendt studierte an der Universität Tartu. Er wurde in Jüdischer Geschichte an der Brandeis University promoviert. Seit 2006 arbeitet er in Oslo am Zentrum für Holocaust- und Minderheitenstudien. 2018 wurde er zum Professor ernannt.
Weiss-Wendt forscht zur Geschichte der Juden in Estland, zum Holocaust und zur Minderheitenpolitik in der Sowjetunion.
Schriften (Auswahl)
- Must-valge linn : Vana-Narva fotoajalugu : Schwarz-weiße Stadt. Tallinn : A. Weiss-Wendt, 1997
- Murder Without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust. Syracuse University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8156-3228-3
- Small Town Russia: Childhood Memories of the Final Soviet Decade. FAP Books, Florida Academic Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-890357-26-9
- Eradicating Differences: The Treatment of Minorities in Nazi-Dominated Europe. 2010
- Raphael Lemkin and the UN Genocide Convention. HL-senteret, Oslo 2011 (archive.org).
- On the Margins: About the History of Jews in Estonia. Central European University Press, Budapest 2017, ISBN 978-963-386-165-3 (z-library.sk).
- The Soviet Union and the Gutting of the UN Genocide Convention. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017, ISBN 978-0-299-31290-9
- Documents on the Genocide Conventions from the American, British, and Russian Archives. London: Bloomsbury Publishers, 2018
- A Rhetorical Crime: Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War. Rutgers University Press, Ithaca 2018, doi:10.36019/9780813594699, JSTOR:j.ctt1t89jvc.
- Casuistry of Blood: Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War. Rutgers, NJ: University of Rutgers Press, 2018
- Band 1 The Politics of International Humanitarian Law, 1933–1948
- Band 2 The Ideology of a Humanitarian Treaty, 1949–1988
- Putin’s Russia and the Falsification of History: Reasserting Control over the Past. Bloomsbury, 2020
Herausgeberschaft
- Eradicating Differences: The Treatment of Minorities in Nazi-Dominated Europe. Cambridge Scholars, Cambridge 2010, ISBN 978-1-4438-2368-5.
- Mit Rory Yeomans: Racial Science in Hitler’s New Europe, 1938-1945. University of Nebraska Press, 2013, JSTOR:j.ctt1ddr8dq.
- The Nazi Genocide of the Roma: Reassessment and Commemoration. Berghahn, New York 2013, ISBN 978-1-78238-923-1, JSTOR:j.ctt9qcvtb.
- Mit Nanci Adler: The Future of the Soviet Past: The Politics of History in Putin's Russia. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2021, ISBN 978-0-253-05759-4, JSTOR:j.ctv21hrjhv.
- A People Destroyed. New Research on the Roma Genocide, 1941–1945. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 2025, ISBN 978-1-4962-3453-7.
Aufsätze und Buchbeiträge
- The Soviet Occupation of Estonia in 1940–41 and the Jews. In: Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Band 12, Nr. 2, 1998, S. 308–325, doi:10.1093/hgs/12.2.308.
- Preconditions for the Holocaust. Estonian Jews and the "Judobolshevik " Myth. In: Anu Mai Köll (Hrsg.): The baltic Countries under Occupation. Soviet and Nazi Rule 1939-1991 (= Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis Studia Baltica Stockholmiensia. Band 21). Almqvist & Wiksell, 2003, ISBN 978-91-22-02049-3, S. 161–166.
- Extermination of the Gypsies in Estonia during World War II‐ Popular Images and Official Policies. In: Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Band 17, Nr. 1, 2003, S. 31–61, doi:10.1093/hgs/17.1.31 (jhu.edu [PDF]).
- Hostage of politics: Raphael Lemkin on “Soviet genocide”. In: Journal of Genocide Research. Band 7, Nr. 4, 2005, S. 551–559, doi:10.1080/14623520500350017.
- Thanks to the Germans! Jewish Cultural Autonomy in Interwar Estonia. In: East European Jewish Affairs. Band 38, Nr. 1, 2008, S. 89–104, doi:10.1080/13501670801897544.
- Why the Holocaust Does Not Matter to Estonians. In: Journal of Baltic Studies. Band 39, Nr. 4, 2008, S. 475–497, doi:10.1080/01629770802461530.
- The Business of Survival: Baltic Oil Ltd and Jewish Forced Labor Camps in Estonia. In: Yad Vashem Studies. Band 2, Nr. 36, 2008, S. 45–71 (org.il).
- On Structural Explanation and Structural Misunderstanding: Response to my Critics. In: Forschungen zur baltischen Geschichte. Band 5, 2010, S. 250–260 (ut.ee [PDF]).
- Collaboration in Genocide: The Ottoman Empire 1915–1916, the German-Occupied Baltic 1941–1944, and Rwanda 1994. In: Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume. Band 26, Nr. 3, 2011, S. 404–437, doi:10.1093/hgs/dcr057.
- The State and Genocide. In: Donald Bloxham und A. Dirk Moses (Hrsg.): The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies. Oxford Academic, 2010, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199232116.013.0005.
- Victim of History. Perceptions of the Holocaust in Estonia. In: John-Paul Himka und Joanna B. Michlic (Hrsg.): Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 2013, S. 195–222, JSTOR:j.ctt1ddr8vf.12.
- The Interwined History of Political Violance in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. The Case Study of Helmut Weiss. In: Klas-Göran Karlsson, Johan Stenfeldt (Hrsg.): Perspectives on the Entangled History of Communism and Nazism: A Comnaz Analysis. Lexington, Lanham 2015, S. 77–105 (google.at).
- Problems in Comparative Genocide Scholarship. In: Dan Stone (Hrsg.): The Historiography of Genocide. Palgrave Macmillan, London 2017, ISBN 978-0-230-27955-1, doi:10.1057/9780230297784_3.
- Studying the Holocaust in Estonia: Has the Topic Been Exhausted? 31(3), 271–275. https://doi.org/. In: Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust. Band 31, Nr. 3, 2017, S. 271–275, doi:10.1080/23256249.2017.1371825.
- When the End Justifies the Means: Raphaël Lemkin and the Shaping of a Popular Discourse on Genocide. In: Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal. Band 13, Nr. 1, 2019, S. 173–188, doi:10.5038/1911-9933.13.1.1585 (usf.edu).
- The Notion of Soviet Genocide: Raphael Lemkin and East European Emigre Organizations in North America. In: 2019 ASN World Convention, Columbia University 2–4 May 2019. New York 2019 (nationalities.org [PDF]).
- Völkermord. In: David Ranan (Hrsg.): Sprachgewalt: Misbrauchte Wörter und andere politische Kampfbegriffe. Dietz, Bonn, S. 246–256.
- Who were the Roma victims of the Nazis? A case study of Estonia. In: Journal of Baltic Studies. Band 54, 2022, S. 27–46., doi:10.1080/01629778.2022.2134156.
- Somebody Else’s Crime: The Drafting of the Genocide Convention as a Cold War Battle, 1946–1948. In: Andrea Graziosi und Frank Sysyn (Hrsg.): Genocide: The Power and Problems of a Concept. McGill University Press, Montreal 2022, S. 22–43.
- Discussion of Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust, by Ari Joskowicz. In: Quest - Issues in Contemporary Jewish History. Band 25, Nr. 1, 2024, S. 172–185 (quest-cdecjournal.it).
Weblinks
- Literatur von und über Anton Weiss-Wendt im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek
- Anton Weiss-Wendt, bei HL-senteret (en)