Postludio

Author(s):  
Peter J. Schmelz

Using its final movement, Postludio, as an anchor, the book’s final chapter discusses the Soviet reception of Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto Grosso no. 1. It focuses on the comparisons the music evoked with Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 film Stalker and the 1986 postapocalyptic Soviet film Letters from a Dead Man (Pisʹma mertvogo cheloveka, dir. Konstantin Lopushansky). The chapter also traces Schnittke’s life and works into the 1980s and 1990s, with emphasis on his later compositions that continued the trail marked by the Concerto Grosso no. 1, particularly the sequence of six concerti grossi he wrote until the end of his life. The chapter concludes by examining the reception of Schnittke’s Concerto Grosso no. 1 in the recent past, when it was allied with the Holocaust, zombies, and the macabre.

2018 ◽  
pp. 145-174
Author(s):  
Sarah Wobick-Segev

Chapter 5 demonstrates that the patterns developed before World War II were vital to the reconstruction of Jewish communities after the Shoah, especially in Paris and Berlin. By this time, the Jewish public had come to expect a wider social and cultural program that would cater to different guises of Jewish belonging beyond strict religious definitions. Individuals wanted Jewish sociability based not only on the synagogue but also on youth groups and children’s summer camps and on social groups that met at local cafés or restaurants. At the same time, this chapter assesses the vast and critical changes wrought by the Holocaust and explores its repercussions in the postwar communities. Beyond pointing to these important historical continuities, however, this final chapter explores why these patterns were not replicated in Leningrad, despite periodic attempts to recreate public Jewish sociability in the former capital along similar models.


2018 ◽  
pp. 445-464
Author(s):  
Christophe Bident
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This final chapter by Christophe Bident takes in the final years of Blanchot’s life up until 1997; it touches on the deaths of friends and major intellectuals of the era, on his letter-writing (notably on the Holocaust), on the re-publications of his texts, and ends with a brief, fictionalized memoir of 1994, The Instant of My Death.


2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-107
Author(s):  
Lionel Blue

Abstract In the recent past all Jewish life has been so overshadowed by the tragedy of the holocaust and the hope of Israel that we could only cry or act. Now a new time has come. Israel has solved every problem except the Arab problem and that is the only important problem now worth solving. A dialogue with the Islamic world is long overdue. We were hounded out of Europe, and we were one of the factors which pushed or helped to push another people out of Palestine. This was a sin – whether knowingly or unknowingly. Israel and Arabs are political entities. Behind them stand two other and greater beings – Judaism and Islam. It is possible that the goodness inherent in them can achieve what the politicians cannot. Unfortunately, neither is spiritually efficient, as all religion has been perverted in our society. The Israel problem poses the crucial test for Judaism itself. As for Islam, it is almost an unknown religion to most Jews. It has also encountered the full onslaught of the West in a short time, and like us, many of its adherents also failed to see the moral wood for the halachic and legalist trees. We can help each other, for we have much in common; and, God willing, we may yet find even more common ground.


STUDIUM ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Cociña Cholaky

A partir del examen de obras sobre el holocausto se reflexiona sobre su singularidad, sus implicaciones y consecuencias, reafirmando la necesidad de instaurar una ética contra el olvido. Ciertos textos logran testimoniar lo inconcebible, de ahí que se recurra a estos para aprehender las dimensiones de lo acontecido. La literatura tiene una función esencial en la tarea de la memoria pues, mediante la narración de historias, posibilita conocer cómo se organizó el régimen nazi, cuáles fueron las bases en que se asentó, cómo operó en sus ejecutores y cómo incidió en quienes lo padecieron; asimismo permite debatir acerca de la modernidad, el sufrimiento, la indiferencia y el mal. Este artículo es una invitación a confrontar críticamente el pasado reciente a partir de novelas que recogen testimonios que dan cuenta del universo de los campos de concentración y exterminio nazi. Palabras clave: holocausto, literatura, nazismo, memoria, mal. Abstract From the examination of works on the holocaust, it reflects on its uniqueness, its implications and consequences, reaffirming the need to establish an ethic against forgetting. Certain texts manage to bear witness to the inconceivable, which is why they are repeated to apprehend the dimensions of what happened. Literature has an essential function in the task of memory, because through the narration of stories, it allows to know how it was organized the Nazi regime, were the bases on which it was established, how they operated on its executors and how it affected those who suffer, they can allow to debate about of Modernity, suffering, indifference and Evil. This paper is an invitation to critically confront the recent past from novels that collect testimonies that account for the universe of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps. Key words: holocaust, literature, nazism, memory, evil.


2020 ◽  
pp. 160-172
Author(s):  
Rebecca S. Graff

The final chapter concludes by deliberately returning to present day, presentist concerns—ones explicitly engaged through the archaeology of the contemporary. Here, Jackson Park’s current reappearance on the world stage as the future home of the Obama Presidential Center is reckoned with, along with the Charnley House and related contemporary archaeological and architectural preservation efforts. By looking at these “strangely familiar” experiences of time, domesticity, consumption, and disposal of the recent past through the frame of contemporary archaeology, the chapter argues that these historical trends that impact the present are, in fact, of the present itself.


Author(s):  
Marcel Thomas

The final chapter explores local histories produced by the residents of Neukirch and Ebersbach from the 1960s onwards, including local chronicles, picture collections, and exhibitions. The analysis of this rich engagement with the postwar past of the locality challenges the understanding of villagers as passive bystanders to change. Local histories, it will be shown, were more than nostalgic laments of modernization. In both Germanies, a wider personal and public engagement with the development of the village became a prominent means for locals to understand, control, and respond to change in their locality. Nostalgia was only one element in this, as reflections on the most recent past in the village were always shaped by both pride in achievements and pain over losses. Local histories, therefore, became an important medium for Easterners and Westerners to situate themselves in the shifting social and political context of the divided and reunified Germany. By revealing parallels between East and West as well as continuities between the time before and after reunification, the chapter demonstrates that an active engagement with the locality’s past has been an important aspect of the parallel histories of responses to social change in the divided Germany.


1982 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-155
Author(s):  
Philip G. Zimbardo
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