Personal engagement and the study of the Holocaust: redressing the missed convesation of the past

This introduction gives the background to a collection of essays on contemporary issues of historiography that have grown out of Hayden White's 'Metahistory' and Saul Friedlander's 'Probing the limits of representation'. They examine two positions of the historian: whether or not it is legitimate for the historian to bring his own biographical involvement to his research.