Alon Confino seeks to rethink dominant interpretations of the Holocaust by examining it as a problem in cultural history.
He analyzes the culture and sensibilities that made it possible for the Nazis and other Germans to imagine the making of a world without Jews..
As the main research interests of Holocaust scholars are frequently covered terrain - the anti-Semitic ideological campaign, the machinery of killing, the brutal massacres during the war - Confino\'s research goes in a new direction.
Alon Confino seeks to rethink dominant interpretations of the Holocaust by examining it as a problem in cultural history