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Modern German History, Memory Studies, Cultural History, Holocaust Studies, History of concepts, General History, and 23 moreFilm Studies, Oral history, German Studies, German History, Memoir and Autobiography, Microhistory, 20th Century German History, East German History, Ethics, Postcolonial Theory, Transnationalism, Methodology, Sense of Place, Truth, Digital Media and Memory, History, Cultural Studies, Science Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Zombies, Israel Studies, Second World War, and Imagination edit
This special issue addresses the possible connections and mutual benefits of examining together two analytic concepts – memory and periphery. These concepts receive much attention in various scholarly discussions, yet they have done so... more
This special issue addresses the possible connections and mutual benefits of examining together two analytic concepts – memory and periphery. These concepts receive much attention in various scholarly discussions, yet they have done so rather independently from each other. The potential applications and utilities of combining memory and periphery and the epistemic insights they provide for various disciplins are presented in the different contributions to this issue.
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Although events from the last months of WWII played a crucial part in the Holocaust and how it has been remembered, only recently have scholars begun to give attention to this period. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the end of... more
Although events from the last months of WWII played a crucial part in the Holocaust and how it has been remembered, only recently have scholars begun to give attention to this period. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the end of the war, this special issue of Dapim presents a first collection of articles, based on current and up-to-date research projects, on different aspects of what can be termed the ‘final stage’ of the Holocaust. The main questions that this issue discusses are: Was the ‘final stage’ a distinct and identifiable period in the unfolding of Nazi policies against the Jews? What characterized the suffering of Jews and other victims of the Nazis in this period, and which parameters affected their fates? What were the continuities and transformations that featured in this ‘final stage’ regarding the Nazi (anti-)Jewish policy?
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History, Military History, Modern History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, and 47 moreHistorical Geography, German Studies, Historical Anthropology, Media and Cultural Studies, Historical Sociology, Jewish Studies, German History, Historiography, War Studies, Genocide Studies, History and Memory, Oral history, Jewish History, Jewish - Christian Relations, Memory Studies, Social and Collective Memory, Cultural Memory, Commemoration and Memory, Second World War, Holocaust Studies, Comparative genocide, Sociology of Ethics and Morality, Collective Memory, History of the Jews, Social History, World War II, memoralization, Modern Jewish History, Autobiographical Memory, Jewish Cultural Studies, Holocaust Literature, Historia Social, Nazi Germany, Holocaust, Memory, Oral History and Memory, Historia, Germany, Genocide, Austrian History, Experience, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, História, Historia Cultural, The Holocaust, Historiografía, and Historical and Comparative Sociology
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Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Russian Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Studies, and 121 moreMedia Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Cultural Sociology, Jewish Studies, Avant-Garde Cinema, Peace and Conflict Studies, Art Theory, Film Theory and Practice, Film Studies, Film Theory, French Cinema, European Cinema, Television Studies, Violence, Social Identity, Cultural Heritage, Israel Studies, Popular Culture, Literature and cinema, Traumatic Stress, Visual Culture, Film Analysis, Cinematic Space, Documentary (Film Studies), Social Representations, Cold War and Culture, Conflict, War Studies, Genocide Studies, History and Memory, Fuzzy Logic, Cultural Theory, National Cinemas, Political Science, Cold War, Identity (Culture), Philosophy of Film, Latin-American Film, Film Genre, Horror Film, Political Violence and Terrorism, Nationalism, Spanish Cinema, Trauma Studies, Israel/Palestine, Jewish History, Japanese Cinema, Culture, Theater and film, Film Adaptation, Film-Philosophy, Culture Studies, Social Media, Post-Colonialism, Cultural Identity, Political Violence, National Identity, Italian Cinema, Memory Studies, Social and Collective Memory, Cultural Memory, Film History, Commemoration and Memory, Second World War, Holocaust Studies, German Cinema, Collective Memory, Media, Film Semiotics, Fear of Crime, Narrative and Identity, East Asian Cinema, American Cinema, Film and History, World War II, Horror Cinema, Hindi Cinema, Cinema, Women in Horror Films, Gender And Violence, Cinema and the City, Representation of Others, Literature and Trauma, Documentary Film, Loss and Trauma, Film Aesthetics, Visual Arts, Israeli-Arab Relations, British Cinema (Film Studies), Representation Theory, History of Nationalism and Nation-Building, Subaltern Studies, War on Terror, Experimental Film, Latin American Cinema, Film, Israel, Trauma, Cultural Trauma, Film and Media Studies, Identity, Mass media, Transnational Cinema, Representation, Arab-Israeli conflict, World War II history, Cinema Studies, Horror Literature, Transcultural Studies, Horror films, Palestinian Studies, War trauma and PTSD, Palestinian Cinema, Lebanese Cinema, Arab Cinema, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Cultural Studies, Ethnology, Cultural Production, Film, Art, Theatre, Social Media, Films, Horror Studies, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Horror, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Ethnicity and National Identity, Cinema Theory, and Cinema and Television
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Eastern European Studies, Jewish Studies, Historiography, Eastern European and Russian Jewish History, Eastern European history, and 12 moreJewish History, Second World War, Holocaust Studies, Holocaust education, History of Historiography, Modern Jewish History, Holocaust, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Holocaust Shoah, Holocaust History and Historiography, Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, and Modern European Jewish History
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Wir möchten mit unserer Untersuchung der Narrationen moralischer Grenzüberschreitungen einen bisher kaum untersuchten Aspekt des Lagerlebens thematisieren und damit zu einem größeren und umfassenden Verständnis von Lagererfahrungen in... more
Wir möchten mit unserer Untersuchung der Narrationen moralischer Grenzüberschreitungen einen bisher kaum untersuchten Aspekt des Lagerlebens thematisieren und damit zu einem größeren und umfassenden Verständnis von Lagererfahrungen in ihren unterschiedlichsten Facetten beitragen. Dabei konzentrieren wir uns auf zwei Verhaltensweisen, die im Lagerkomplex Mauthausen vorkamen und außerhalb des Lagers klar als moralische Grenzüberschreitungen definiert sind: Stehlen und Kannibalismus.
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Cultural History, Cultural Studies, German Studies, German History, History and Memory, and 15 moreCannibalism, Oral history, Morality (Social Psychology), Holocaust Studies, Collective Memory, 20th Century German History, Nazi Germany, Holocaust, Oral History and Memory, Nazism, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Morality, Concentration Camps, Stealing, and Sociolology of Morality
Arbeit spielt im menschlichen Leben eine essenzielle Rolle.1 Sie stiftet Selbstbilder, sichert finanziell ab und ermöglicht im besten Fall auch Selbstverwirklichung. Diese Bedeutung der Arbeit wurde vor allem anhand der Lebensgeschichten... more
Arbeit spielt im menschlichen Leben eine essenzielle Rolle.1 Sie stiftet Selbstbilder, sichert finanziell ab und ermöglicht im besten Fall auch Selbstverwirklichung. Diese Bedeutung der Arbeit wurde vor allem anhand der Lebensgeschichten von Erwerbstätigen schon in den frühen Oral-History-Forschungen ausführlich dargestellt.2 Diese Forschungen haben gezeigt, wie oft Menschen ihr soziales Leben in Abhängigkeit von ihren jeweiligen Arbeitsbedingungen und Arbeitsinhalten konstruieren und bewerten. Auch das Leben von KZ-Häftlingen war maßgeblich von den spezifischen Formen und Bedingungen ihrer Arbeit inner-und außerhalb des Lagers abhängig. Im folgenden Beitrag untersuche ich Bedeutung und Funktion der Arbeit, so wie sie in den Erzählungen im Rahmen lebensgeschichtlicher Interviews mit ehemaligen Häftlingen des KZ Mauthausen geschildert wurden. Die Interviewten waren aus unterschiedlichen Gründen und zu verschiedenen Zeiten vom Herrschaftsapparat des NS-Systems verhaftet worden und mussten an verschiedenen Orten und zu unterschiedlichen Zeiten unter verschiedenen Bedingungen arbeiten. Wie wird die Rolle der Arbeit im KZ-Alltag in den Erzählungen der Überlebenden von Mauthausen beschrieben ? Wird Arbeit im KZ ähnlich wie die Arbeit vor oder nach der Haftzeit charakterisiert, oder wird sie als eine ganz andere Tätigkeit dargestellt und bewertet ? Was wird über sie erzählt und erinnert und was nicht ? «Der Tag im KL wurde von der Zwangsarbeit bestimmt. Sie drückte dem Lagerleben ihren Stempel auf.»3 Mit diesen Worten stellte der Soziologe und Buchenwald-Überlebende Eugen Kogon die Bedeutung der Arbeit für das Leben der Häftlinge im Lager dar. In seiner Formulierung benutzte Kogon die übliche Bezeichnung der Arbeit im KZ als Zwangsarbeit, eine Wortwahl, die «Zwangsarbeit» von «normaler» Arbeit abgrenzt. Diese kategorische Unterscheidung benennt explizit die Machtverhältnisse in den Lagern, in denen die «Arbeitnehmer» Häftlinge waren und Arbeit als wichtiges Mittel des Zwangs und des Terrors diente. Doch die Untersuchung von Arbeit im KZ als ein inhärent anderes Phänomen beschränkt die wissenschaftlichen Interpretationsmöglichkeiten und die Bedeutung, die man mit Blick auf diese Arbeit in Interviews mit
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Cultural History, German Studies, German History, History and Memory, Oral history, and 11 moreOral Traditions, Memory Studies, Cultural Memory, Holocaust Studies, 20th Century German History, German, Nazi Germany, Holocaust, Oral History and Memory, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Holocaust Shoah
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What do Holocaust survivors do when they refer to cannibalism in their testimonies? This piece argues that they do not merely describe what they have witnessed or heard of, but also ponder the boundaries of humanity. For centuries,... more
What do Holocaust survivors do when they refer to cannibalism in their testimonies? This piece argues that they do not merely describe what they have witnessed or heard of, but also ponder the boundaries of humanity. For centuries, Europeans have made references to cannibalism in various depictions for drawing the line between “civilized” and “uncivilized.” In accordance with studies that examine cannibalism in other historical contexts, I argue that in attempting to express a sense of the radical dehumanization in the Nazi camps and convey its horror, some survivors’ accounts reconstruct the appalling reality of the camps as parallels to familiar, older stories of cannibalism that take place in remote, brutal places deprived of civilization.
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Cultural History, Cultural Studies, German Studies, Jewish Studies, German History, and 15 moreCultural Theory, Cannibalism, Jewish History, Holocaust Studies, 20th Century German History, Moral Philosophy, Cultural Anthropology, Jewish Cultural Studies, Nazi Germany, Holocaust, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, The Holocaust, Holocaust Shoah, Cultural cannibalism, and European Cannibalism
The rising German interest in rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust has been accompanied by an emphasis on their exceptionality among the wartime German population. Seen as aberrations, rescuers are used to present a simplified... more
The rising German interest in rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust has been accompanied by an emphasis on their exceptionality among the wartime German population. Seen as aberrations, rescuers are used to present a simplified generalization of the German majority’s wartime conduct by defining what it was not. This article argues that this view, as well as the common claim that rescue and rescuers of Jews were “forgotten” in the postwar Germanys, are based on a certain interpretative model concerning the relationship between exception and rule. I trace the different uses of this model and show that from 1945 to the present, many Jewish and non-Jewish Germans employed variously defined exceptions to trace and determine one's preferred image of the majority—as an object of desire or critique. The article presents the different conceptualizations and idealizations of rescue and their functions in imagining a collective self in commemorative and historiographical portrayals of past and current German societies.
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Social Theory, Jewish Studies, Social Sciences, German History, Historiography, and 15 moreHistory and Memory, Jewish History, Memory Studies, Commemoration (Memory Studies), Commemoration and Memory, Holocaust Studies, 20th Century German History, Popular And Political Cultures Of Memory, Public Memory, History of Historiography, German History after 1945, Modern German History, Modern European History, Nazi Germany, and Holocaust and Genocide Studies
This text examines the uses, symbolic meanings, and social roles of ghosts, vampires, and zombies in literature, film, and other forms of public representation. Special attention is given to the manifold ways in which the past is... more
This text examines the uses, symbolic meanings, and social roles of ghosts, vampires, and zombies in literature, film, and other forms of public representation. Special attention is given to the manifold ways in which the past is commemorated differently in different places and situations. The first part of the text examines various approaches to undead monsters as part of people’s concerns with a past that seems to “haunt” the present. The second part looks at the distinct features of these monsters’ imagined bodies, with particular attention to vampires and zombies, and considers their value as frameworks for the study of individual and social remembering.
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Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Historical memory, and 15 moreCultural History Of Ghosts, Memory Studies, Cinema and Memory, Cultural Memory, Vampire Literature, Commemoration and Memory, Social Memory, Vampire Studies, Zombie Films, Vampires, Zombies, Vampires in Film and Literature, Politics of Memory, Zombie, and Memória social
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Moving from place to place and between camps was an experience shared by many who were subjected to Nazi persecution during WWII. This article aims to give a sense of this experience of movement by tracing the different routes that led... more
Moving from place to place and between camps was an experience shared by many who were subjected to Nazi persecution during WWII. This article aims to give a sense of this experience of movement by tracing the different routes that led Jews from all over occupied Europe to (and from) the concentration camp Mauthausen and its satellite camps.
This is an English version of: Kobi Kabalek, “Die Wege von Juden nach Mauthausen: Eine integrative Geschichte,” in Alexander Prenninger, Regina Fritz, Gerhard Botz, and Melanie Dejnega, eds., Deportiert nach Mauthausen (Vienna: Böhlau, 2021), 491-507.
This is an English version of: Kobi Kabalek, “Die Wege von Juden nach Mauthausen: Eine integrative Geschichte,” in Alexander Prenninger, Regina Fritz, Gerhard Botz, and Melanie Dejnega, eds., Deportiert nach Mauthausen (Vienna: Böhlau, 2021), 491-507.
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German History, Mobility/Mobilities, Genocide Studies, Oral history, Jewish History, and 15 moreHolocaust Studies, Modern Jewish History, Holocaust survivors, Holocaust, Oral History and Memory, Genocide, Austrian History, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Shoah, The Holocaust, Holocaust Shoah, Concentration Camps, Holocaust History and Historiography, History of former Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp complex, and History of Holocaust Survivors In the Aftermath of World War II
Scholars have so far interpreted postwar depictions of Germans saving Jews from Nazi persecution mainly as apologetic references that allowed Germans to avoid addressing problematic aspects of their history. Yet although such portrayals... more
Scholars have so far interpreted postwar depictions of Germans saving Jews from Nazi persecution mainly as apologetic references that allowed Germans to avoid addressing problematic aspects of their history. Yet although such portrayals appear in many postwar German accounts, depictions of successful rescues of Jews are relatively rare in literary and filmic works produced between 1945 and the early 1960s. This article argues that in presenting failed rescue of Jews, several German authors aimed to contribute to the re-education and moral transformation of the German population. The article’s first part shows that narratives of failed rescue were considered particularly useful for arousing Germans’ empathy with the Nazis’ Jewish victims. The article’s second part examines those works that went further and tailored stories of unsuccessful rescue to criticize Germans for not doing more to resist the regime. Although these works presented Germans as victims, as was common in many contemporaneous depictions, it would be misleading to view them merely as apologetic accounts. Rather, the widespread reluctance to commemorate the persecution of Jews urged several authors to retain the common image of Germans as victims in order to avoid alienating their audience. At the same time, using narratives of failed rescue, these writers and filmmakers explored new ways to allow Germans to speak about the Holocaust and reflect on their conduct. Attempts to both arouse a moral debate and avoid directly speaking about Germans’ collective responsibility might seem irreconcilable from today’s perspective, but not for Germans of the 1940s and 1950s.
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Cultural History, Emotion, German Studies, German Literature, Film Studies, and 15 moreGerman History, History and Memory, Memory Studies, Social and Collective Memory, Commemoration (Memory Studies), Cultural Memory, Commemoration and Memory, Collective Memory, 20th Century German History, German Literature and Culture, Nazi Germany, Failure Analysis, Memory, German-Jewish Studies, and German Film
The piece analyzes written, oral, and visual testimonies (drawings, book illustrations, etc.), revealing monsters’ different meanings and functions for the survivors during and after the Holocaust, thereby challenging the tendency to... more
The piece analyzes written, oral, and visual testimonies (drawings, book illustrations, etc.), revealing monsters’ different meanings and functions for the survivors during and after the Holocaust, thereby challenging the tendency to disregard references to monsters in survivors’ accounts. The first section examines survivors’ depictions of monsters as a way of pointing to the true nature of the Nazi regime. The second examines the use of monsters as a means for expressing the incredible features of survivors’ Holocaust experiences and communicating their disbelief to audiences. The third section discusses testimonies that depict the journeys to the death camps as travels to an alien reality, in which the deportees encountered monstrous figures and feared that they, too, might become like them.
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History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, German Studies, Jewish Studies, and 15 moreJewish History, Culture, Monster Theory, Holocaust Studies, Supernatural, Modern Jewish History, Monsters and Monster Theory, Holocaust Literature, Holocaust, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, The Holocaust, Holocaust Shoah, Monsters and the Monstrous, Holocaust History and Historiography, and Jewish Responses to the Holocaust
When Holocaust survivors refer to cannibalism in their testimonies, they do not merely describe what they have witnessed or heard of, but also ponder the boundaries of civilization and humanity. Such reflection is not restricted to the... more
When Holocaust survivors refer to cannibalism in their testimonies, they do not merely describe what they have witnessed or heard of, but also ponder the boundaries of civilization and humanity. Such reflection is not restricted to the Holocaust. For centuries, Europeans have made references to cannibalism as narrative instruments for drawing the line between “civilized” and “uncivilized,” and demonizing the Other. In so doing, they also produced an aesthetic of horror. The very mentioning of cannibalism awakens images and tales that arouse both disgust and fear – two elements that define what we call horror. I therefore argue that in attempting to express a sense of the radical dehumanization in the Nazi camps and convey its horror to their audience, some survivors’ testimonies reconstruct the appalling reality of the camps as parallels to familiar stories set in remote, barbaric places fraught with atrocity and devoid of civilization.
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Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Historiography, Genocide Studies, Cannibalism, and 15 moreCulture, Memory Studies, Cultural Memory, Holocaust Studies, Holocaust Literature, Holocaust, Civilization, Horror Literature, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, The Holocaust, Horror, Holocaust Shoah, Concentration Camps, Holocaust History and Historiography, and Jewish Responses to the Holocaust
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Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, and 47 moreCultural Sociology, Sex and Gender, Women's Studies, Film Studies, Television Studies, Popular Culture, Literature and cinema, Visual Culture, Film Analysis, Cultural Theory, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Gender and Sexuality, Horror Film, History of Sexuality, Gender, Cross-Cultural Studies, Film History, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Horror Cinema, Cinema, Women in Horror Films, Japanese Popular Culture, Visual and Cultural Studies, Japanese Horror film, Zombie Films, Women and Culture, Rape Culture, Film and Media Studies, Transnational Cinema, Women and Gender Studies, Cinema Studies, Horror Literature, Zombies, Horror films, Horror Studies, Horror, Cultural cannibalism, Post-Apocalyptic Literature, Cinema and Television, Zombie, Zombie Studies, Love and Relationships, Zombies Related to Media, Sociology of Zombies, Rape and Violence, and Zombie Apocalypse
This essay begins by observing that while images and texts that emanated from the 'final stage' of the Holocaust seem to be a privileged source in depictions of the Holocaust, the specific features of this stage itself often remain... more
This essay begins by observing that while images and texts that emanated from the 'final stage' of the Holocaust seem to be a privileged source in depictions of the Holocaust, the specific features of this stage itself often remain unclear. What was the ‘final stage’ of the Holocaust? Did it have any clear and definite contours? How is it conceived in relation to other, earlier stages of the Holocaust? And are there any particular meanings that people associate with this stage? The first part of this essay explores these questions by examining the tensions between the presence and absence of the ‘final stage’ in Holocaust fiction and historical studies. I propose to approach this stage as constituting an edge to the common ‘main story’ of the Holocaust. In the essay’s second part, I apply this conceptualization in tracing 2 different ways in which survivors’ testimonies define the ‘final stage’ in terms of experience, memory and narrative, while asking which novel periodizations of the Holocaust survivors’ perspectives could introduce.
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History, European History, Military History, Modern History, Cultural History, and 110 moreCultural Studies, Historical Geography, European Studies, German Studies, German Literature, Gender Studies, Historical Anthropology, Testimony, Media Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Historical Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Self and Identity, Jewish Studies, Film Studies, Research Methods and Methodology, Violence, German History, Research Methodology, Methodology, Qualitative methodology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Historiography, Cold War and Culture, War Studies, Orality-Literacy Studies, Genocide Studies, History and Memory, Cultural Psychology, Identity (Culture), Nationalism, Oral history, Historical memory, Jewish History, Culture, Social Media, Memory Studies, Social and Collective Memory, Commemoration (Memory Studies), Cultural Memory, Qualitative Research, Commemoration and Memory, Second World War, Holocaust Studies, Comparative genocide, Collective Memory, History of the Jews, 20th Century German History, Contemporary Fiction, Social History, German Literature and Culture, World War II, Intellectual and cultural history, Social Memory, Holocaust education, Public Memory, War and society, Concepts, Memoir and Autobiography, memoralization, History of Historiography, Conceptual History, Qualitative Research Methods, National Socialism, Cultural Anthropology, Modern Jewish History, Autobiographical Memory, Jewish Cultural Studies, Film, Armenian Genocide, Second World War (History), Comparative Historical Analysis, Holocaust Literature, Historia Social, Film and Media Studies, Nazi Germany, Holocaust, Mass media, Central and Eastern Europe, Holocaust theories of representation, Memory, Oral History and Memory, Historia, Genocide, Experience, Oral literature, Nazism, Memoria Histórica, Post-Holocaust Theology, Modern Jewish Thought, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Memoir, História, Historia Cultural, Shoah, Nazi Propaganda, The Holocaust, Holocaust Memory, Holocaust Shoah, Cultural and Social Anthropology, Historiografia, Historiografía, Historical and Comparative Sociology, Holocaust History and Historiography, Holocaust and Film, Eyewitness Testimony, Literature of the Shoah, Oral History, History of Holocaust Survivors In the Aftermath of World War II, and Jewish Responses to the Holocaust
מה היה "השלב הסופי" של השואה? האם היו לו קווי מתאר ברורים ומוגדרים? איך הוא נתפס בהשוואה לשלבים אחרים, מוקדמים יותר, של השואה? האם אנשים נוטים לייחס לשלב זה משמעות ייחודית כלשהי? חלקו הראשון של המאמר מנסה לענות על שאלות אלו על–ידי בחינת... more
מה היה "השלב הסופי" של השואה? האם היו לו קווי מתאר ברורים ומוגדרים? איך הוא נתפס בהשוואה לשלבים אחרים, מוקדמים יותר, של השואה? האם אנשים נוטים לייחס לשלב זה משמעות ייחודית כלשהי? חלקו הראשון של המאמר מנסה לענות על שאלות אלו על–ידי בחינת המתחים שבין נוכחותו של שלב זה בספרות הבדיונית על השואה ובמחקרים ההיסטוריים עליה ובין היעדרו מהם. אני מציע לראות בשלב הסופי את ה"שוליים" של "הסיפור העיקרי" המקובל של השואה. בחלקו השני של המאמר אני מיישם המשגה זו ומזהה שתי דרכים שונות שבהן עדויות של ניצולים מגדירות את "השלב הסופי" במונחים של חוויה, זיכרון ונרטיב, ושואל איזה תיקוף
חדש של השואה אפשר להפיק מנקודות המבט של הניצולים.
חדש של השואה אפשר להפיק מנקודות המבט של הניצולים.
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“To put something in context” is a common sentiment in everyday speech and scholarly analysis alike. Yet despite widespread familiarity, such expressions bear commonly overlooked and sometimes contradictory meanings based upon distinct,... more
“To put something in context” is a common sentiment in everyday speech and scholarly analysis alike. Yet despite widespread familiarity, such expressions bear commonly overlooked and sometimes contradictory meanings based upon distinct, case-specific assumptions. The article makes explicit the assumptions and consequences of “putting memory in context.” It proceeds under four headings. The first (“Context”) surveys the multi- and interdisciplinary approaches to context in the study of memory; the second (“Container”) and third (“Identity”) elucidate the consequences of some of the principal contexts in use, and the conceptual problems arising from them; and the final section explores possible alternatives.
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History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, and 166 morePolitical Sociology, Social Theory, Sociology of Culture, Social Psychology, Cultural Geography, Space Sciences, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Archival Studies, Multiculturalism, Art History, Media Studies, New Media, Media and Cultural Studies, Historical Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Self and Identity, Cultural Policy, Social Research Methods and Methodology, Social Sciences, Globalization, Film Studies, Memory (Cognitive Psychology), Eyewitness memory, Museum Studies, Political Theory, Research Methodology, Social Identity, Cultural Heritage, Transnational and World History, Literature, Place and Identity, Heritage Studies, Transnationalism, Popular Culture, Digital Media, Methodology, Sociology of Knowledge, Space and Place, Visual Culture, Human Memory, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Contemporary History, Historiography, History of Science, Literary Criticism, Cultural Semiotics, History and Memory, Contextualism, Global media, Cultural Theory, Political Science, Public Relations, Cultural Psychology, Identity (Culture), Sociology of Identity, Anthropology of space, Cultural Heritage Conservation, Identity politics, Oral history, Historical memory, Cultural Landscapes, Museum Anthropology, Digital Culture, History of Museums, Culture, Archives, Place Identity, Cultural Tourism, Transnational History, Culture Studies, Working Memory, Social Media, The Self, Cultural Identity, Context, National Identity, Public Sphere, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Memory Studies, Social and Collective Memory, Cultural Memory, Communication Of Memory In Archives, Libraries And Museums, Ethnic Identity, Sense of Place, Memory (Psychology), Commemoration and Memory, Lieux de memoire, Holocaust Studies, Collective Memory, Media, Marginalized Identities, Narrative and Identity, Social History, Citizenship and Identity, Popular And Political Cultures Of Memory, Transnational migration, Personal Identity, False Memory, Museums and Identity, Museum Interpretation, History, Writing and Memory, Intellectual and cultural history, Social Memory, Content Analysis (Research Methodology), Public Memory, Memoir and Autobiography, memoralization, Conceptual History, Qualitative Research Methods, Landscape, Cultural Anthropology, Phenomenology of Space and Place, Orality, Diaspora and transnationalism, Memoir Writing, Multidisciplinary, Space, Autobiographical Memory, Public Space, Memory and materiality, Episodic Memory, Museum Collection history, Women and Culture, Museums, Collective Identity, Heritage, Identity, Mass media, Transnational Cinema, Memory, Memorials and the Memorial Art-Work in the Public Arena, Oral History and Memory, Historia, Place, Political Identity, Publicity, Experience, Historia y Memoria, Memoria Histórica, Identidad, Patrimonio Cultural, Cultural Globalization, Museum and Heritage Studies, Public spaces, Memoir, Cultura, História, Multiculturalidad, Culture and Context, Políticas De La Memoria, Historia Cultural, Politics of Memory, Memoria, Nostalgia and Memory, Historiografia, Media and identity, Identidades, Historiografía, Ethnicity and National Identity, Contextualization, Memorization, Memória social, Transnational Film/media, Refugee memory, and Memoria Descriptiva
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History, Cultural History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Social Movements, and 57 moreSocial Theory, Media and Cultural Studies, Social Policy, Social Anthropology, Cultural Sociology, Self and Identity, Social Sciences, Museum Studies, Social Identity, Cultural Heritage, Sociolinguistics, Social Networking, Transnationalism, Popular Culture, Postcolonial Studies, Methodology, Visual Culture, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Social Representations, History and Memory, Cultural Theory, Identity (Culture), Sociology of Identity, Conceptual Metaphor, Identity politics, Kulturgeschichte, History of concepts, Culture, Cross-Cultural Studies, Culture Studies, Social Media, Cultural Identity, National Identity, Memory Studies, Social and Collective Memory, Cultural Memory, Commemoration and Memory, Collective Memory, Social History, Symbolic Anthropology (Anthropology), Social Memory, Public Memory, Concepts, memoralization, Conceptual History, Cultural Anthropology, Representation Theory, Autobiographical Memory, Memory and materiality, Identity, Memory, Oral History and Memory, Representation, Transcultural Studies, Metodología y Teoría de la Investigación Social, Representaciones Sociales, and Memoria
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History, Cultural History, German Studies, Jewish Studies, Film Studies, and 32 moreHuman Rights, Humanitarianism, Israel Studies, History and Memory, Israel/Palestine, Jewish History, National Identity, Jewish - Christian Relations, Memory Studies, Film History, Commemoration and Memory, Second World War, Holocaust Studies, Collective Memory, History of the Jews, Jewish historiography, Modern Jewish History, Jewish Cultural Studies, Film, Israel, Holocaust Literature, Film and Media Studies, Israel and Zionism, Holocaust, Memory, Religious Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, The Holocaust, Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief, and Rescue and Resistance
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Jewish Studies, Israel Studies, History and Memory, Identity politics, Israel/Palestine, and 19 moreJewish History, Memory Studies, Commemoration (Memory Studies), Cultural Memory, Commemoration and Memory, Holocaust Studies, Collective Memory, Concepts, Conceptual History, Modern Jewish History, Jewish Cultural Studies, Zionism, Israel, Israel and Zionism, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Shoah, Holocaust Shoah, War Memorials, and HIstory of Zionism and Jewish Nationalism
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Cultural History, German Studies, Film Studies, Television Studies, German History, and 19 moreVisual Culture, Film Analysis, Film Adaptation, Memory Studies, Cultural Memory, Film History, Holocaust Studies, German Literature and Culture, Modern Jewish History, Film, Film and Media Studies, Failure Analysis, East Germany, East German Cinema, Erinnerungskultur (memory culture), Holocaust and Film, Erinnerung, Cinema and Television, and German Erinnerungskultur
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German Studies, Gender Studies, Media Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Reception Studies, and 58 moreFilm Theory and Practice, Film Studies, Film Theory, German History, Reception Theory, Israel Studies, Popular Culture, Audience Studies, Visual Culture, Film Analysis, Polish History, Genocide Studies, History and Memory, Reading Habits/Attitudes, Philosophy of Film, Film Genre, Horror Film, Audience and Reception Studies, Reception, Heroism, Film Adaptation, Social Media, Reading, History of Reading and Writing, Memory Studies, Social and Collective Memory, Cultural Memory, Film History, Commemoration and Memory, Second World War, Holocaust Studies, German Cinema, Masculinities, Collective Memory, Media, Film Semiotics, 20th Century German History, Reading Comprehension, German Literature and Culture, Polish Studies, Film and History, World War II, Reception History, Postmodern Literary Theory and Popular Culture, Film, Holocaust Literature, Film and Media Studies, Nazi Germany, Holocaust, Mass media, Memory, Genocide, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Films, The Holocaust, Media Audiences, Holocaust History and Historiography, and Holocaust and Film
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Cultural Studies, German Studies, German History, Historiography, History and Memory, and 20 moreOral history, Kulturgeschichte, Memory Studies, Social and Collective Memory, Commemoration and Memory, Microhistory, Collective Memory, 20th Century German History, In-depth Interviews, Autobiographical Self-Representation, GDR History, Autobiographical Memory, Interviewing, East German History, Nazi Germany, Oral History and Memory, DDR, Microhistoria, Erinnerungskultur (memory culture), and Autobiography and life writing studies
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Religion, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Religion, Jewish Law, and 80 moreSelf and Identity, Jewish Studies, History of Ideas, History of Religion, Social Identity, History of Christianity, Israel Studies, Border Studies, Religion and Politics, Jewish Mysticism, Early Judaism (2nd Temple, Greco-Roman), Identity (Culture), Identity politics, Jewish History, History of concepts, Symbolic Interaction, Symbolic Boundaries, Cultural Identity, Second Temple Judaism, History of Religions, National Identity, Jewish - Christian Relations, Border Crossing, Second World War, Holocaust Studies, Language and Identity, History of the Jews, Narrative and Identity, Jewish Thought, Anthropology of Borders, Jewish Philosophy, Concepts, Jewish Literature, Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Conceptual History, Jewish historiography, Jewish-Muslim Relations, Medieval Jewish History, Modern Jewish Philosophy, Judaism, Jewish Messianism, Modern Jewish History, Jewish Education, Ashkenazic Judaism, Jewish Cultural Studies, Israel, Christian Zionism, Hellenistic Judaism, Israel and Zionism, Identity, Religious Studies, Representation, Ancient Judaism, Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages, German-Jewish Studies, Begriffsgeschichte, Judaic Studies, Modern Jewish Thought, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Early Judaism, Jewish Magic, Jewish-Christian Polemics, Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Jews of Medieval Spain, Ancient Israel, Jews, Rabbinic Judaism, History of Jews, Sephardic Jews, Anthropology of Religion, Hebrew and Judaic Studies, medieval islam and Judaism, Jews In the Roman and Byzantine Empire, Rescue and Resistance, Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, HIstory of Zionism and Jewish Nationalism, Muslim and Jewish History, Jews In Islamic Lands, History of Judaism In Antiquity, and Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity
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Cultural History, German Studies, German Literature, Media and Cultural Studies, Jewish Studies, and 22 moreGerman History, War Studies, History and Memory, Autobiography, Biography, Writing, Memory Studies, Social and Collective Memory, Cultural Memory, Second World War, Collective Memory, 20th Century German History, German Literature and Culture, World War II, Diary Studies, Memoir and Autobiography, Autobiographical Self-Representation, Modern Jewish History, Autobiographical Memory, Nazi Germany, Memory, and Postwar Germany
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History, Cultural Studies, Self and Identity, Social Sciences, Memory (Cognitive Psychology), and 41 moreSocial Identity, Disability Studies, Refugee Studies, Diasporas, Human Memory, African Diaspora Studies, History and Memory, Identity (Culture), Historical memory, Diaspora, Minority Studies, Memory Studies, Social and Collective Memory, Cultural Memory, Commemoration and Memory, Collective Memory, Postmodern Fiction, Marginalized Identities, Narrative and Identity, Contemporary Fiction, Diaspora Studies, Social Memory, Public Memory, Dystopian Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Memoir and Autobiography, memoralization, Migrant and Diasporic Literature, Diaspora and transnationalism, Autobiographical Memory, Memory and materiality, Refugees, Identity, Memory, Oral History and Memory, Postcolonialism and indian english fictions, Marginalized Populations, Politics of Memory, Memoria, Periphery, and Refugee memory
מרבית המחקרים המנתחים את זיכרון הנאציזם בחברות הגרמניות שקמו לאחר מלחמת העולם השנייה טוענים שגרמנים רבים הדגישו את סבלם שלהם במלחמה כאסטרטגיה שנועדה להסתיר את השותפות הפסיבית או האקטיבית של האוכלוסייה הגרמנית לרדיפת היהודים. מאמר זה טוען... more
מרבית המחקרים המנתחים את זיכרון הנאציזם בחברות הגרמניות שקמו לאחר מלחמת העולם השנייה טוענים שגרמנים רבים הדגישו את סבלם שלהם במלחמה כאסטרטגיה שנועדה להסתיר את השותפות הפסיבית או האקטיבית של האוכלוסייה הגרמנית לרדיפת היהודים. מאמר זה טוען שייצוגי הסבל או חוסר האונים של "גרמנים רגילים" לא תמיד שימשו כדרך לחמוק מאחריות ולהשכיח את השואה. בחינה מקרוב של סרט מזרח גרמני וסרט מערב גרמני המתארים סדרת ניסיונות כושלים להציל יהודים, מצביעה על מסר מורכב יותר המשתמש במרכיבים אפולוגטיים על מנת לבקר את האוכלוסייה הגרמנית על אדישותה לגורל היהודים ולעמת את הגרמנים עם השואה. ההשוואה בין הסרטים והביקורות עליהם גם מצביעה על ההבדלים בין מזרח ומערב גרמניה בשאלת הלקח שיש
ללמוד ממקרים אלו של הצלה כושלת.
ללמוד ממקרים אלו של הצלה כושלת.
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History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, German Studies, German Literature, and 22 moreMedia Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Television Studies, German History, Hebrew Language, Popular Culture, Literature and cinema, Film Analysis, War Studies, Film History, Second World War, German Literature and Culture, Moral Philosophy, Visual and Cultural Studies, Israel, Hebrew, Film and Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Morality, East Germany, and קולנוע
This volume explores the multifaceted depiction and staging of historical and social traumata as the result of extreme violence within national contexts. It focuses on Israeli-Palestinian, German and (US) American film, and reaches out to... more
This volume explores the multifaceted depiction and staging of historical and social traumata as the result of extreme violence within national contexts. It focuses on Israeli-Palestinian, German and (US) American film, and reaches out to cinematic traditions from other countries like France, Great Britain and the former USSR. International and interdisciplinary scholars analyze both mainstream and avant-garde movies and documentaries premiering from the 1960s to the present. From transnational and cross-genre perspectives, they query the modes of representation – regarding narration, dramaturgy, aesthetics, mise-en-scène, iconology, lighting, cinematography, editing and sound – held by film as a medium to visualize shattering experiences of violence and their traumatic encoding in individuals, collectives, bodies, and psyches. This anthology uniquely traces horror aesthetics and trajectories as a way to reenact, echo and question the perpetual loops of trauma in film cultures. The contributors examine the discursive transfer between historical traumata necessarily transmitted in a medialized and conceptualized form, the changing landscape of (clinical) trauma theory, the filmic depiction and language of trauma, and the official memory politics and hegemonic national-identity constructions.
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Film Studies, Violence, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Horror Film, Trauma Studies, and 20 moreHorror Cinema, Traumatization (Psychology), Psychotraumatology, Trauma, Collective Identity, Michael Haneke, Trauma and Cinema, Private Investigations, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Inglorious Basterds, Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society Bessel A. Van Der Kolk, Alexander C. McFarlane, Lars Weisæth, Traumatic Memories, Culture and Trauma, Prosthetic Memory, Alison Landsberg, Flashback, Shellshock and PTSD especially WW1, Trauma and shell shock World War, Bessel van der Kolk, and Jinga 48
Where does a picture, a visual depiction of an act of violence, locate us, the observers? Whose perspective do we adopt, and/or perform, when we are confronted with an image of the tormented body, the object of pain and suffering, of a... more
Where does a picture, a visual depiction of an act of violence, locate us, the observers? Whose perspective do we adopt, and/or perform, when we are confronted with an image of the tormented body, the object of pain and suffering, of a vulnerable victim, with or without the presence of the perpetrators? In what follows, we start with discussing the propensity to adopt certain positionalities in facing these questions, and their analytic and ethical implications. The text then draws on Derrida's notion of the frame (parergon) in analyzing Jojakim Cortis’ and Adrian Sonderegger’s Double Take poster, showing a diorama of the Abu Ghraib torture photographs, and suggest a reading that could unsettle the familiar repertoire of treating/conflating victims' and perpetrators' perspectives – a double “double take.”