James Irvin Lichti

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James "Jim" Irvin Lichti (* 1953 in Fresno ) is an American historian .

Career

James Lichti grew up in a Mennonite family near Reedley in central California . He studied history at San Francisco State University and received his MA in 1989 with Religious Identity Vs. "Aryan" identity. German Mennonites and Hutterites Under the Third Reich . The subjects of free churches in the time of National Socialism and later also the Holocaust determined his further work. For his doctorate he switched to Saul Friedländer at the University of California, Los Angeles and received a Ph.D. in history in 2000 with the work The response to National Socialism by denominations with teachings against bearing arms .

His studies on the reaction of the Mennonites, Seventh-day Adventists and Quakers to the ideology of National Socialism were carried out with the book Houses on the Sand? Pacifist Denominations in Nazi Germany .

Lichti had meanwhile worked as an archivist at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust and as a historian at the Shoa Foundation . Today he teaches history at Milken Community High School in California.

Fonts

  • Doctoral thesis: The response to National Socialism by denominations with teachings against bearing arms . Los Angeles 2000.
  • Houses on the Sand? Pacifist Denominations in Nazi Germany (=  Studies in Modern European History . Volume 51 ). Peter Lang, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-8204-6731-3 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

Dependent contributions:

  • The German Mennonite Response to the Dissolution of the Rhoen-Bruderhof. In: Mennonite Life . Volume 46, No. 2, June 1991, pp. 10-17 ( ml.bethelks.edu PDF).
  • The statements of German Mennonites on the dissolution of the Rhönbruderhof in the time of National Socialism. In: Mennonite history sheets. Volume 49, 1992, pp. 73-91.
  • German Mennonites, Economics and the State. In: Calvin Redekop, Victor A. Krahn, Samuel J. Steiner (Eds.): Anabaptist / Mennonite Faith and Economics. University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland 1994, ISBN 0-8191-9349-6 , pp. 83-110 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • Model denomination or totalitarian sect? Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany. In: Jonathan C. Friedman (Ed.): The Routledge History of the Holocaust. Routledge, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-415-77956-2 , pp. 358-374 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Lexicon contributions: Denomination and Rhönbruderhof . In: Hans-Jürgen Goertz (Ed.): Mennonitisches Lexikon (MennLex). Volume V - revision and addition.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dissertation Information for James Irvine Lichti on the MPACT website . Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  2. ↑ Review: Nick Railton: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History . Ed .: Cambridge University Press. tape 61 , no. 1 , January 2010, p. 208-209 , doi : 10.1017 / S0022046909990467 .
  3. ^ Larry Gara: Houses on the Sand: Pacifist Denominations in Nazi Germany (review) . In: Quaker History . tape 100 , no. 2 , November 18, 2011, p. 44 , doi : 10.1353 / qkh.2011.0010 .
  4. ↑ Review: John S. Conway: 1b) Lichti, Pacifist denominations in Nazi Germany. In: Contemporary Church History Quarterly , September 2009, accessed December 17, 2015.
  5. ↑ Review: John D. Rempel: Houses on the Sand? Pacifist Denominations in Nazi Germany . In: The Mennonite Quarterly . tape 85 , October 2011, p. 663–666 ( goshen.edu [PDF; accessed February 27, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Lichti, James Irvin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lichti, Jim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Fresno , United States