How the Holocaust Looks Now offers a series of essays that explores the historical culture the holocaust has engendered in Europe, Israel, and the USA; the politics of its reception and representation since the 1950s; the motivations for and effectiveness of commemorating it, and the creative and didactic practices it has generated in contemporary literature, art, and thought. This volume brings together contributions from leading scholars and commentators of different nationalities, generations and personal investment in the issues the Holocaust raises. As a result, it represents current thinking about the Holocaust that is particularly topical now that it is beginning to move out of the living memory of those who were immediately affected by it. In all, this book provides a thought-provoking intellectual experience and a comprehensive study of the legacy of the Holocaust, with topics ranging from the moving reflections of a survivor to the effectiveness of Holocaust memorials; from the persistence of anti-Semitism to the political exploitation of the Holocaust in Israeli politics; and from the embarrasssments of bystanders' memories to Jewish artists' satirical caricatures of the persecutors.
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.Törnquist 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.Lässig & 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 Friedländer'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
MARTIN L. DAVIES studied Modern Languages at St. John's College, Oxford, and is currently Reader in History at the University of Leicester, UK. He has also held Research Fellowships at the Centre for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and at the Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European-Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam. His publications include Historics: Why History Dominates Contemporary Society (2006) and Identity or History? Marcus Herz and the End of the Enlightenment (1995).
CLAUS-CHRISTIAN W. SZEJNMANN was born in Munich, studied in London, and is currently Reader in Modern European History, as well as Director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. His major publications are Vom Traum zum Alptraum: Sachsen während der Weimarer Republik (2000) and Nazism in Central Germany: The Brownshirts in 'Red' Saxony (1999) and the forthcoming Nazism in Germany: a Comparative Regional History (2009).
Description
How the Holocaust Looks Now offers a series of essays that explores the historical culture the holocaust has engendered in Europe, Israel, and the USA; the politics of its reception and representation since the 1950s; the motivations for and effectiveness of commemorating it, and the creative and didactic practices it has generated in contemporary literature, art, and thought. This volume brings together contributions from leading scholars and commentators of different nationalities, generations and personal investment in the issues the Holocaust raises. As a result, it represents current thinking about the Holocaust that is particularly topical now that it is beginning to move out of the living memory of those who were immediately affected by it. In all, this book provides a thought-provoking intellectual experience and a comprehensive study of the legacy of the Holocaust, with topics ranging from the moving reflections of a survivor to the effectiveness of Holocaust memorials; from the persistence of anti-Semitism to the political exploitation of the Holocaust in Israeli politics; and from the embarrasssments of bystanders' memories to Jewish artists' satirical caricatures of the persecutors.
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.Törnquist 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.Lässig & 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 Friedländer'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
Authors
MARTIN L. DAVIES studied Modern Languages at St. John's College, Oxford, and is currently Reader in History at the University of Leicester, UK. He has also held Research Fellowships at the Centre for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and at the Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European-Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam. His publications include Historics: Why History Dominates Contemporary Society (2006) and Identity or History? Marcus Herz and the End of the Enlightenment (1995).
CLAUS-CHRISTIAN W. SZEJNMANN was born in Munich, studied in London, and is currently Reader in Modern European History, as well as Director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. His major publications are Vom Traum zum Alptraum: Sachsen während der Weimarer Republik (2000) and Nazism in Central Germany: The Brownshirts in 'Red' Saxony (1999) and the forthcoming Nazism in Germany: a Comparative Regional History (2009).
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