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How the Holocaust Looks Now M. Davies

How the Holocaust Looks Now By M. Davies

How the Holocaust Looks Now by M. Davies


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This collection offers a series of essays that explore the historical culture the holocaust has engendered in Europe, Israel and the USA, the politics of its reception and representation, the motivations for and effectiveness of commemorating it, and the creative and didactic practices it has generated in contemporary literature, art, and thought.

How the Holocaust Looks Now Summary

How the Holocaust Looks Now: International Perspectives by M. Davies

This collection offers a series of essays that explore the historical culture the holocaust has engendered in Europe, Israel and the USA, the politics of its reception and representation, the motivations for and effectiveness of commemorating it, and the creative and didactic practices it has generated in contemporary literature, art, and thought.

About M. Davies

WOLFGANG BENZ Professor of Antisemitism Research, Technical University of Berlin, Germany BOAZ COHEN Researcher, Bar Ilan University, Israel JOHAN DIETSCH Doctoral Student, Lund University, Sweden MARIA ECKER Doctoral Student, University of Salzburg, Austria JOCHEN FUCHS Professor at the Fachhochschule Magdeburg, Germany KRISTIAN GERNER Professor of History, Lund University, Sweden EVELINE GOODMAN-THAU Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria PETER GRAVES Senior Lecturer and Head of German, University of Leicester, UK MATTHIAS HASS Director of the US Program of Action Reconciliation Service for Peace, Philadelphia, USA ESTHER HERTZOG Senior Lecturer and Head of Social Science Department and Anthropology Studies, Beit Berl College, Israel OLAF JENSEN Lecturer in Holocaust Studies, University of Leicester, UK KLAS-GORAN KARLSSON Professor of History, Lund University, Sweden SIMONE LASSIG Research Fellow, German Historical Institute, Washington DC, USA KAROLIN MACHTANS Visiting Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, USA ISSABELLA MATAUSCHEK Lecturer in Intercultural Communication and Cultural Studies, Johannes Kepler University, Austria AUBREY NEWMAN Emeritus Professor of History, University of Leicester, UK KARL HEINRICH POHL Professor of History and Historical Didactics, University of Kiel, Germany RAINER SCHULZE Head of Modern European History, University of Essex, UK BARBARA TORNQUIST PLEWA Professor of East and Central European Studies, Lund University, Sweden TATIANA WEISER Doctoral Student, Institute of Advance Humanities Research, Russian State Humanitarian University, Moscow, Russia MIRJAM WENZEL Research Assistant, Institute for German Literature, Ludwig Maximilan University, Munich, Germany RENE WOLF Doctoral Student, Royal Holloway University of London, UK VERONIKA ZANGL Academic Researcher ULF ZANDER Research Associate, Lund University, Sweden

Table of Contents

Foreword; A.Newman Introduction: How the Holocaust Looks Now; C-C.W.Szejnmann & M.L.Davies PART I The Ark of Innocence - Morality and Memory after Auschwitz; E.Goodman-Thau Part II: MEMORIES OF THE HOLOCAUST: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE DISCOURSES Family Recollections of the Holocaust in Europe; O.Jensen Bringing the Holocaust Home: Danish and Dutch Third Generation's Struggle to Make Sense of the Holocaust; I.Matauschek Oral/Audiovisual Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors in the United States; M.Ecker Christa Wolf's Patterns of Childhood: an East German Confrontation with the Nazi Past; P.Graves The Presence of the Holocaust in Daily Life Discourse in Israel; E.Hertzog PART III: THE HOLOCAUST AND EUROPEAN HISTORICAL CULTURE The Undivided Sky: the Auschwitz Trial on East and West German Radio; R.Wolf The Holocaust as a History-Cultural Phenomenon; K-G.Karlsson Between the Holocaust and Trianon: Historical Culture in Hungary; K.Gerner The Holocaust in Ukrainian Historical Culture; J.Dietsch A Tale of a Former Shtetl: the Memory of Jews and the Holocaust in Poland; B.Tornquist Plewa Heroic Images: Raoul Wallenberg as a History-Cultural Symbol; U.Zander PART IV: REPRESENTING THE HOLOCAUST: MEMORIALS Holocaust Survivors and Early Israeli Holocaust Research: a Reappraisal; B.Cohen 'Auschwitz' in Museums: Representing and Teaching the Holocaust in the Twenty-first Century; S.Lassig & K.H.Pohl The Establishment of National Memorials to the Nazi Past: Yad Vashem, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Topography of Terror Foundation; M.Haas Fillling the Void: Representing the History of Bergen-Belsen for a New Generation; R.Schulze Visiting Memorial Sites: a Valid Cathartic Experience of a Waste of Time and Money?; J.Fuchs PART V: REPRESENTING THE HOLOCAUST: WRITING, ART, EDUCATION Possibilities and Limits of a "Conjunction" of History and Memory: Saul Friedlander's Historiography of the Shoah; K.Machtans What Kind of Narratives Can Present the Unpresentable?; T.Weiser The Possibilities and Problems of Narrating Facts; V.Zangl The "New Artistic Discourse" on Nazism and the Holocaust: Contemporary Fine Art as a Reflection on the Reception of History; M.Wenzel "Education After Auschwitz" Revisited; M.L.Davies PART VI Anti-Semitism Today; W.Benz Index

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NPB9780230001473
9780230001473
0230001475
How the Holocaust Looks Now: International Perspectives by M. Davies
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2006-11-17
282
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