Holocaust remembrance : the shapes of memory
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Holocaust remembrance : the shapes of memory
Blackwell, 1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-298) and index
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Description
The recording, explanation and the inescapable task of judging great wrongs in the past presents historians with their most difficult assignment. For those who have either lived through such injustice or have been in some way responsible for it the impositions of memory are both painful and unavoidable. Memory shapes the future, and the recollections of past suffering haunt and may overwhelm generations long after. In 1938 the National Socialist Party in Germany began the final preparations for the systematic genocide of the Jews throughout Europe. For the Jews, whose national loyalties had long exceeded any ties of ethnicity, the programme of extermination was an act not merely of monstrous cruelty but of humiliation and treachery. In Holocaust Remembrance scholars, artists and writers consider the ways in which the events of 1938-1945 have been, might be, and will be remembered. The records of the Holocaust are vast and various, ranging from the museum at Auschwitz to the cartoons of Art Spiegelman, from the dark paintings of R.B.
Kitaj to the elegaic stories of Primo Levi, from the filmed testimonies of the death camp survivors to revisionist historians who usurp the name of scholar in the pursuit of denial and evasion. The perspectives brought to bear here are rich and various - impassioned, objective, personal, poetical, historical and philosophical. They are united by an awareness of the dangers both of respectful silence and overwhelming information, and that only in remembering can an understanding of the past be sought and human kind redeemed from the forces of humiliation and guilt.
Table of Contents
Darkness Visible by Geoffrey Hartman 1 On Testimony by Annette Wieviorka, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris 2 The Library of Jewish Catastrophe by David Roskies, Jewish Theological Seminary of America 3 Voices from the Killing Ground by Sara Horowitz, University of Delaware 4 Jean Amery as Witness by Alvin Rosenfeld, Indiana University 5 Remembering Survival by Lawrence Langer, Simmons College 6 Christian Witness and the Shoah by David Tracy, University of Chicago 7 Film as Witness: Lanzmann's Shoah by Shoshana Felman, Yale University 8 Charlotte Salomon's Inward-Turning Testimony by Mary Felstiner, San Francisco State University 9 `Varschreibt!' by R.B. Kitaj, artist 10 Conversation in the Cemetery: Dan Pagis and the Prosaics of Memory by Sidra Ezrahi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 11 Chinese History and Jewish Memory by Vera Schwarcz, Wesleyan University 12 The Awakening by Aharon Applefeld, Israeli novelist 13 Facing the Glass Booth by Haim Gouri, Israeli poet, novelist and film-maker 14 The Andean Waltz by Leo Spitzer, Dartmouth College 15 German-Jewish Memory and National Consciousness by Miriam Hansen & Michael Geyer, both University of Chicago 16 Negating the Dead by Nadine Fresco, Centre National de Recherche Scientique, Paris 17 `The First Blow': Projects for the Camp at Fossoli by Giovanni Leoni, Italian architect 18 Jewish Memory in Poland by James Young, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 19 Reclaining Auschwwitz by Deborah Dwork & Robert Jan van Pelt, respectively Yale Child Study Center & University of British Columbia 20 Memory, Trauma and the Writing of History by Saul Friedlander, Tel Aviv University `Liberation' (poem) by Abraham Sutzkever, Israeli Yiddish poet.
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Description
The recording, explanation and the inescapable task of judging great wrongs in the past presents historians with their most difficult assignment. For those who have either lived through such injustice or have been in some way responsible for it the impositions of memory are both painful and unavoidable. Memory shapes the future, and the recollections of past suffering haunt and may overwhelm generations long after.
In 1938 the National Socialist Party in Germany began the final preparations for the systematic genocide of the Jews throughout Europe. For the Jews, whose national loyalties had long exceeded any ties of ethnicity, the programme of extermination was an act not merely of monstrous cruelty but of humiliation and treachery.
In Holocaust Remembrance scholars, artists and writers consider the ways in which the events of 1938-1945 have been, might be, and will be remembered. The records of the Holocaust are vast and various, ranging from the museum at Auschwitz to the cartoons of Art Spiegelman, from the dark paintings of R. B. Kitaj to the elegaic stories of Primo Levi, from the filmed testimonies of the death camp survivors to revisionist historians who usurp the name of scholar in the pursuit of denial and evasion.
The perspectives brought to bear here are rich and various - impassioned, objective, personal, poetical, historical and philosophical. They are united by an awareness of the dangers both of respectful silence and overwhelming information, and that only in remembering can an understanding of the past be sought and human kind redeemed from the forces of humiliation and guilt.
Table of Contents
Darkness Visible: Geoffrey Hartman. 1. On Testimony: Annette Wieviork (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris).
2. The Library of Jewish Catastrophe: David Roskies (Jewish Theological Seminary of America).
3. Voices from the Killing Ground: Sara Horowitz (University of Delaware).
4. Jean Amery as Witness: Alvin Rosenfeld (Indiana University).
5. Remembering Survival: Lawrence Langer (Simmons College).
6. Christian Witness and the Shoah: David Tracy (University of Chicago).
7. Film as Witness: Lanzmann's Shoah: Shoshana Felman (Yale University).
8. Charlotte Salomon's Inward-Turning Testimony: Mary Felstiner (San Francisco State University).
9. 'Varschreibt!': R. B. Kitaj.
10. Conversation in the Cemetery: Dan Pagis and the Prosaics of Memory: Sidra Ezrahi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).
11. Chinese History and Jewish Memory: Vera Schwarcz (Wesleyan University).
12. The Awakening: Aharon Applefeld.
13. Facing the Glass Booth: Haim Gouri.
14. The Andean Waltz: Leo Spitzer (Dartmouth College).
15. German-Jewish Memory and National Consciousness: Miriam Hansen & Michael Geyer (both University of Chicago).
16. Negating the Dead: Nadine Fresco (Centre National de Recherche Scientique, Paris).
17. 'The First Blow': Projects for the Camp at Fossoli: Giovanni Leoni.
18. Jewish Memory in Poland: James Young (University of Massachusetts, Amherst).
19. Reclaining Auschwwitz: Deborah Dwork & Robert Jan van Pelt (Yale Child Study Center & University of British Columbia).
20. Memory, Trauma and the Writing of History: Saul Friedlander (Tel Aviv University). 'Liberation' (poem): Abraham Sutzkever.
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