Background
Mark Roseman was born on September 7, 1958, in London, United Kingdom. He is a son of Nathan Stephen Roseman and Joan Lillian Roseman, maiden name Hyames.
2001
In 2001, Mark Roseman earned the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize.
In 1988-1993, Mark Roseman was a committee member, and in 1989-1993, a treasurer of the German History Society.
Mark Roseman, educator, historian, author, scholar.
Mark Roseman, educator, historian, author, scholar.
Mark Roseman, educator, historian, author, scholar.
St Andrew's St, Cambridge CB2 3BU, United Kingdom
Mark Roseman earned a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Christ's College, Cambridge University.
The Old Schools, Trinity Ln, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom
Mark Roseman earned a Master of Arts from Cambridge University.
Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
Mark Roseman earned a Doctor of Philosophy from Warwick University.
(This is the first English-language collection of essays o...)
This is the first English-language collection of essays on modern German history with a generational theme. It analyzes the origins and impact of generation conflict from the eighteenth century to the 1960s student revolts.
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1995
(A heart-stopping survivor story and brilliant historical ...)
A heart-stopping survivor story and brilliant historical investigation that offers unprecedented insight into daily life in the Third Reich and the Holocaust and the powers and pitfalls of memory.
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2000
(German History from the Margins offers new ways of thinki...)
German History from the Margins offers new ways of thinking about ethnic and religious minorities and other outsiders in modern German history.
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2006
(Bringing together some of the most prominent contemporary...)
Bringing together some of the most prominent contemporary historians of modern Germany alongside innovative newcomers to the field, this volume offers new perspectives on key debates surrounding Germany's descent into, and emergence from, the Nazi catastrophe. It explores the intersections between society, economy, and international policy, with a particular interest in the relations between elites and the wider society, and provides new insights into the complex continuities and discontinuities of modern German history.
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2007
(Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933-1946 offers a new p...)
Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933-1946 offers a new perspective on Holocaust history by presenting documentation that describes the manifestations and meanings of Nazi Germany's "Final Solution" from the Jewish perspective. This first volume, taking readers from Hitler's rise to power through the aftermath of Kristallnacht, vividly reveals the increasing devastation and confusion wrought in Jewish communities in and beyond Germany at the time.
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2009
(The "racial state" has become a familiar shorthand for th...)
The "racial state" has become a familiar shorthand for the Third Reich, encapsulating its raison d'être, ambitions, and the underlying logic of its genocidal violence. The Nazi racial state's agenda is generally understood as a fundamental reshaping of society based on a new hierarchy of racial value. However, this volume argues that it is time to reappraise what race really meant under Nazism, and to question and complicate its relationship to the Nazis' agenda, actions, and appeal.
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2017
(From the celebrated historian of Nazi Germany, the story ...)
From the celebrated historian of Nazi Germany, the story of a remarkable but completely unsung group that risked everything to help the most vulnerable In the early 1920s amidst the upheaval of Weimar Germany, a small group of peaceable idealists began to meet, practicing a quiet, communal life focused on self-improvement.
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2019
educator historian author scholar
Mark Roseman was born on September 7, 1958, in London, United Kingdom. He is a son of Nathan Stephen Roseman and Joan Lillian Roseman, maiden name Hyames.
Mark Roseman earned a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Christ's College, Cambridge University, in 1979. He earned a Master of Arts from Cambridge University in 1981, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Warwick University in 1987. His dissertation work was directed by Volker Berghahn.
Mark Roseman is a historian of modern Europe, with particular interests in the History of the Holocaust and in modern German history. He is a Distinguished Professor since 2018, Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor in History since 2004, and Adjunct Professor in Germanic Studies at Indiana University. In 1980-1981, he was a Seminar Teacher in Modern German History at Warwick University. In 1984-1989, Roseman was a Lecturer in German History at Aston University Department of Modern Languages. In 1989-1994, he was a Lecturer in Modern History, and in 1994-2000 - a Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Keele University History Department. In 2000-2003, he was a Professor of Modern History at the University of Southampton.
Professor Roseman was in residence at the Mandel Center of the United States Holocaust Museum from September 1, 2010, to May 30, 2011. During his tenure at the Center, he researched a little-known German left-wing reform group called the "Bund, Gemeinschaft für sozialistisches Leben" or League for Socialist Life. The group was of mixed Jewish and non-Jewish membership and managed to protect its Jewish members and survive Nazi oppression. His research focused on the League's roots, character, and its actions and their significance. Through this project, Roseman sought to contribute to our understanding of the preconditions and possibilities for rescue in Nazi Germany.
Roseman's publications have covered a wide range of topics in German, European and Jewish history, including life-reform and protest in the 1920s and 1930s Germany; Holocaust survival and memory; Nazi policy and perpetrators; the social impact of total war; post-1945 German and European reconstruction; generation conflict and youth rebellion; Jewish and other minorities in modern German history. He also has an interest in the comparative history of genocide.
Recasting the Ruhr, 1945-1958: Manpower, Economic Recovery and Labour Relations, published in 1992, grew out of Roseman's dissertation work directed by Volker Berghahn at the University of Warwick. This book is a close examination, divided into two parts, of the history of labor policies designed to restore the coal industry in the Ruhr mining district in Germany. Through extensive use of political and social archival material both in Germany and England, Roseman has revealed, in detail, aspects of the miners' lives as well as the progress of labor relations. The first part of the book is concerned with the period immediately following the end of the war in 1945 until 1948. The mistrust that existed between German and British forces in addition to the competing plans of the other occupying nations is described, providing a full picture of the times. The second half of the book deals with the period from 1948 to 1958, the era of Ludwig Erhard's economic policies. Roseman analyzes and evaluates what he labels the "social engineering" efforts to recruit and retain miners. Housing, entertainment, and social values all were scrutinized by the authorities, and attempts were made to re-shape the miners' lives in hopes of retaining a stable workforce. Traditional home designs were rejected and replaced with buildings that the authorities hoped would have more appeal to the miners. There were also attempts to instill attitudes that would increase greater productivity. It was a general effort to re-engineer the miners' culture. The reasons for the failure of this experiment are clearly delineated.
Generations in Conflict: Youth Revolt and Generation Formation in Germany, 1770-1968 is a collection of essays that grew out of a conference held in 1991 that was formed around the study of generational conflict in Germany. As the editor. Roseman has put together and introduced a collection of essays from an international group of scholars that addresses various aspects of this topic. The majority of the essays are concerned with the period after 1918, with an emphasis on the generation educated in the Nazi era and their response to the allied occupation. Such titles as "The Ideal of Youth in Eighteenth-Century Germany," "The Generation Conflict That Never Was: Young Labor in the Ruhr Mining Industry 1945-1957," and "German Kriegskinder: Origins and Impact of the Generation of 1968," demonstrate the scope of this collection devoted to the examination of the conflict of German youth and the established order.
The 2002 book A Past in Hiding: Memorial and Survival in Nazi Germany is the story of Marianne Strauss, a young German Jewish, who escaped being transported to a concentration camp with her family and then lived in Germany, aided by an underground resistance group, until the end of World War II. The story of how her experiences came to light is intriguing and forms an important part of the book. She remained virtually silent about her wartime experiences until the early 1980s when she wrote an article for a German periodical. Roseman saw the article, was interested and met with her in 1989. Her reluctance to speak at any length remained intact, however, and Roseman left the interview with little information. He contacted her again five years later and this time she was more forthcoming. In the course of three interviews, Roseman learned much of the painful, complex story that was to become the book. Marianne Strauss died in December of 1996. Upon her death Roseman, accompanied by her son, Vivian Ellenbogen, discovered an extensive collection of documents, including postcards, letters, diaries, and official papers from her underground life. This is more than an account of her dramatic life during World War DL Through her diaries, letters, and the interviews Roseman had with her, he shows the development of this complex woman. Booklist reviewer George Cohen called A Past in Hiding "an eloquent account of surviving the holocaust."
In The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution: A Reconsideration, Roseman traces the path of discussions between officials in the Nazi government that led to the Holocaust of World War II. The conference held at Wannsee on January 20, 1942, was attended by important figures in the Nazi regime, including chief of police Reinhold Heydrich. Hitler, himself, was absent. Roseman asserts that the meeting was organized to give Heydrich's police complete power in the formation and execution of policies regarding the Jews and to assure the cooperation of the rest of the government departments. The author reminds us that in the beginning Hitler's policies of harassment and discrimination were aimed at promoting Jewish emigration. In the course of the Wannsee conference, Heydrich presented a plan designed to eliminate all Jews by working them to death and killing those who did not succumb to the extreme conditions of forced labor. Roseman points out that although this conference was not the precise "moment of decision," it was the first formal step toward genocide. The minutes of the conference are included at the end of the book. A Kirkus Reviews contributor called The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution "A chilling keyhole glimpse of Nazi evil's bureaucratic banality."
His current research projects include rethinking the meaning and role of race and Nazi rule, German Jewish experience of Nazi persecution, a history of resistance and rescue und Nazi rule, and critical synthesis of recent work on Nazi perpetrators.
(From the celebrated historian of Nazi Germany, the story ...)
2019(Bringing together some of the most prominent contemporary...)
2007(Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933-1946 offers a new p...)
2009(A heart-stopping survivor story and brilliant historical ...)
2000(The "racial state" has become a familiar shorthand for th...)
2017(German History from the Margins offers new ways of thinki...)
2006(This is the first English-language collection of essays o...)
1995
Mark Roseman was married. He has three children.