Speaking of the Holocaust

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
Keith Kahn-Harris
Keyword(s):  
Future Generations ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Short Article ◽  
The Holocaust

Albert Friedlander’s writings were part of a generational struggle to find a language in which to speak of the experience of the Holocaust. This struggle was, in part, a response to the ‘unspeakability’ of the Holocaust, the silence and denial of its perpetrators. As such, in the postwar period, the perpetrators of the Holocaust also struggled to find the words to speak of what they had done. This short article goes on to speculate on the implications of the unspeakability of the Holocaust and other genocides. It suggests that this unspeakability is beginning to break down as desires are spoken of more openly. As such, it is possible that current and future generations will have to embark on a different struggle to that of Albert Friedlander. While he could count on an assumed moral consensus that the Holocaust was wrong, current and future generations may no longer be able to rely on this assumption.

Changing Memory Regimes in Contemporary Germany?

2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Langenbacher
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
Nazi Era

Are collective memories currently changing in the land where the“past won’t go away?” Long dominated by memory of the Holocaustand other Nazi-era crimes, Germany recently witnessed the emergenceof another memory based on the same period of history, butemphasizing German suffering. Most commentators stress the noveltyand catharsis of these discussions of supposedly long-repressedand unworked-through collective traumas and offer predominantlypsychoanalytic explanations regarding why these memories onlynow have surfaced. However, thanks to “presentist” myopia, ideologicalblinders, and the theoretical/political effects of Holocaustmemory, much of this discourse is misplaced because these Germancenteredmemories are emphatically not new. A reexamination ofthe evolution of dominant memories over the postwar period in theFederal Republic of Germany is necessary in order to understandand contextualize more fully these current debates and the changesin dominant memories that may be occurring—tasks this article takesup by utilizing the memory regime framework.

scholarly journals Niedom. Przekraczenie idei domu rodzinnego w mieszkaniu migracyjnym

2014 ◽  
pp. 541-665
Author(s):  
Magdalena Łukasiuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
History Teaching ◽  
Memory Space ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Historical Education ◽  
The Individual

How is the memory of the Holocaust and Auschwitz seen today among young Poles and Germans, is it different from that of the past? What are the differences in the memory space and education about the Holocaust between the two countries, and what do they have in common? The article is based on three pillars, and what served as foundations for them was a survey conducted with Polish and German youth in late April and May 2013, immediately after their visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau. The first part concerns the individual and family memory of young people from Poland and Germany, who came to the Memorial and Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau (MMA-B); there are also issues related to the intergenerational transmission of war fate of the relatives. The second pillar takes on teaching about the Holocaust at school and the evaluation of historical education from the student’s point of view. There are presented the opinions of many historians, teachers and educators struggling with the effects of the reform of history teaching. The third and most extensive part of the article presents the issues related to historical education in the memorial site and young people confronting their past experience, knowledge, notions with the authenticity of MMA-B. Fundamental questions has been raised about the sense of maintaining authenticity of the memorial site and the reason that makes the memory of the Holocaust such an important task for future generations.

Contextualizing Mes Aynak

Afghanistan ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Klimburg-Salter
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Copper Mining ◽  
Short Article ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

Future generations of scholars may see Mes Aynak as an unique archaeological complex which comprises an extraordinary number of diverse functions and thus provides crucial primary evidence for the history of Inner and South Asia during the 1st millennium AD and most likely earlier—that is, with luck. Historians and archaeologists are uncertain what the future will bring—will the site be destroyed by war, copper mining or a lack of controlled excavation? All of these circumstances have threatened the integrity of the site since exploration first began in the 1960s. This short article presents a brief summary of the literature on Mes Aynak and the present archaeological situation.

scholarly journals ‘The Tale of the Cairene and the Countryman’

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 91-104
Author(s):  
Magdalen Connolly
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Arabic Orthography ◽  
Folk Tales

This short article offers a revised transcription and English translation of Qiṣṣat al-maṣrī wa-l-rīfī ‘The Tale of the Cairene and the Countryman’ as found in AIU VII.C.16, with grammatical notes. This new edition of the text demonstrates that Goitein’s (1972) rendering of the manuscript concealed significant orthographic features, which indicate a later date of composition than Goitein proposed. Since its publication, Goitein’s (1972) edition of AIU VII.C.16 has been widely used among students and scholars of Judaeo-Arabic as a guideline for dating other Judaeo-Arabic texts of the Ottoman era. The fragment’s importance in contemporary scholarship continues, rendering a revised edition an indispensable resource for future generations of Judaeo-Arabic scholars. Keywords:  Judaeo-Arabic – Middle Arabic – orthography – folk tales – Qiṣṣat al-maṣrī wa-l-rīfī

Legacies of Divided Memory for German Debates about the Holocaust in the 1990s

1999 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Herf
Keyword(s):  
West Germany ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Half Century ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Political Traditions ◽  
East And West

The legacies of almost a half-century of divided memory continue toinfluence commemoration of the Holocaust in unified Germany.Because these practices were decisively shaped by the multiplerestorations of past political traditions in the early postwar period, Iwill comment on the commemorations of the first two postwardecades in East and West Germany and conclude with brief remarksabout how past legacies influence recent practices. I will examinethe significance of the Holocaust in these events compared to theattention given to the suffering of Nazi Germany’s non-Jewish victims.I will also consider the extent to which distinctions were madeamong the various victims of Nazi Germany, the kind of hierarchiesthat were established among them, and the use of commemorationfor political purposes.

scholarly journals ‘Jewish Culture is Inseparable From the Struggle Against Reaction’: Forging an Australian Jewish Antifascist Culture in the 1940s

Fascism ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 34-55
Author(s):  
Max Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
World War ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Jewish Culture ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Political Stance ◽  
Jewish Youth ◽  
Political Lessons ◽  
Second World

Abstract In the immediate postwar period Jewish communities worldwide sought to draw political lessons from the events of the Holocaust, the rise of fascism and the Second World War. A distinctive popular Jewish left antifascist politics developed as a way of memorialising the Holocaust, struggling against antisemitism and developing anti-racist and anti-assimilationist Jewish cultures. This article looks at the trilingual magazine Jewish Youth, published in Melbourne in the 1940s in English, Yiddish and Hebrew, as a prism through which to examine Jewish antifascist culture in Australia. Jewish Youth featured an oppositional political stance against antisemitism and fascism, tied often to Holocaust memorialisation; a conscious political and cultural minoritarianism and resistance to assimilation; and a certain fluctuating multilingualism, tied to its transnational situatedness and plurality of audiences.

scholarly journals Memoria del Holocausto en Iremos con vosotros hasta el fin de Maria Teresa León: un canto heroico a Polonia = Memory of the Holocaust Iremos con vosotros hasta el fin, of María Teresa León: a heroic song to Poland

2019 ◽  
pp. 279
Author(s):  
María Lourdes Núñez Molina
Keyword(s):  
Future Generations ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Death Camp ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Maria Teresa Leon ◽  
Jewish Children

Resumen: Acompañada por su familia, María Teresa León recorre el campo de exterminio de Auschwitz. La impresión de esa experiencia angustiosa fue evocada en sus memorias y seguramente la indujo a escribir Iremos con vosotros hasta el fin. En esta obra, concebida como un guion de teatro radiofónico, María Teresa ensalza la solidaridad y el sacrificio de un matrimonio polaco, que tiene a su cargo a un grupo de niños judíos polacos. Cuando los niños son seleccionados para entrar en la cámara de gas de Auschwitz, en la primavera de 1943, deciden no abandonarlos y morir junto a ellos. Iremos con vosotros hasta el fin es un homenaje a las víctimas, una exhortación a presentes y futuras generaciones para que recuerden el horror del Holocausto, porque el olvido conlleva el resurgimiento del Mal.Palabras clave: Holocausto, judíos, María Teresa León, Polonia, Auschwitz, ficción.Abstract: Along with by her family, María Teresa León walks through the Auschwitz death camp. The reflection of this anguished experience was evoked in her memories and surely induced her to write Iremos con vosotros hasta el fin. In this work, conceived as a radio theatrical script, María Teresa praises the solidarity and sacrifice of a Polish couple, who shelter of a group of Polish Jewish children. When the children were selected to enter the gas chambers of Auschwitz in the spring of 1943, they decided not to abandon them and die next to them. Iremos con vosotros hasta el fin is a tribute to the victims, an exhortation to present and future generations to remember the horror of the Holocaust, because forgetfulness leads to the resurgence of evil.Keywords: Holocaust, Jews, María Teresa León, Poland, Auschwitz, fiction.

The End of Dystopia?

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-100
Author(s):  
Tina Frühauf
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
New Beginning ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Cultural Persistence ◽  
Nazi Past ◽  
Cultural Mobility

While the year 1945 marked a turning point in the sense of a new beginning for Jewish communities, the immediate postwar period was by no means a clear break with the past. Ruptures—in the sense of historical and cultural breaks—affecting the course of Jewish culture had, in fact, occurred earlier. As such, the postwar period saw a unique dialectic between changes in the aftermath of the Holocaust and a cultural persistence, which drew on historical musical models and practices that gave way to cultural mobility. As such, musical life in the Jewish communities appears as a brief epilogue to a glorious pre-Nazi past. The peculiar dialectic between cultural change and persistence is an indicator of the complexities the Jewish community faced in reestablishing itself after the Holocaust and for a provisional new beginning.

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