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A New Historian?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2005

CAROLE FINK
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Abstract

-Your mother is a judge. It's her job to put a line through the past by passing sentence. I'm a historian. For me the past is a gold mine of surprises and possibilities.

-A gold mine?…A dunghill is more like it.

-Dunghills have their surprises too.

President Ion Iliescu [of Romania] has just announced the formation of an international expert commission charged with studying the history of the Holocaust in Romania between 1937 and 1951.

Historians are not judges. A historical commission is not a court of law.

Type
Review Article
Information
Contemporary European History , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , February 2005 , pp. 135 - 147
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2005

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