Zagłada w Danii: kwestia badań i pamięci

2007 ◽  
pp. 156-177
Author(s):  
Silvia Goldbaum Tarabini Fracapane
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Critical Comment ◽  
Actual Number ◽  
Rescue Operation ◽  
Jewish Refugees ◽  
The Holocaust

The article deals with the most important events of the Holocaust in Denmark. The first part outlines the broader historical context of the events of October  1943 and the deportation of Danish Jews. It also contains a critical comment on the mainstream historical narration, particularly those aspects that concern the situation of Jewish prisoners at Theresienstadt. The second part is an overview of the latest research into the Danish aspects of the Holocaust, such as the expulsion of Jewish refugees, the rescue operation of October 1943, and the actual number of deportees. The author also presents results of her own research of the Danish remembrance culture.

Colonial Policies, Middle Eastern War, and City Spaces

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maud S. Mandel
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
French Government ◽  
Jewish Refugees ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Minority Policies ◽  
The City ◽  
Politically Active

Beginning in 1948 when war in the Middle East caused minor unrest in the city of Marseille, this chapter traces the way in which disagreements over Israel became a way to debate inequities in French minority policies at home and in North Africa. In Marseille, the gathering point for Jewish clandestine migration to Palestine, Algerian Muslims' anger toward what they perceived as French complicity in migration schemes was compounded by frustrations that French officials seemed to be favoring Jewish refugees over newly minted French Algerian Muslim citizens. Conflicts around war in the Middle East thus became an opportunity for politically active Muslims and Jews to negotiate their relationship with the French state, as the former established new parameters for political participation in the aftermath of the Holocaust by pushing the French government to support Israel, and the latter tested the limitations on a citizenship that never made good on its promises.

scholarly journals Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Holocaust Literature

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Ethnic Difference ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Holocaust Literature ◽  
Horror Genre ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Us

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” has been notorious since its first publication in 1948, but rarely, if ever, has it been read in light of its immediate historical context. This essay draws on literature, philosophy, and anthropology from the period to argue that Jackson’s story, which scholars have traditionally read through the lens of gender studies, invokes the themes of Holocaust literature. To support this argument, the essay explores imaginative Holocaust literature from the period by David Rousset, whose Holocaust memoir The Other Kingdom appeared in English translation in 1946, anthropological discourse from the period on scapegoating and European anti-Semitism, and critical discourse on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism from the period by Hannah Arendt and Theodor Adorno. The analysis finds that, in representing the phenomena of scapegoating and death selection in a small town in the US, Jackson’s story belongs to an abstract discourse on Holocaust-related themes and topics that was actively produced at midcentury, as evidenced partly by Rousset’s influential memoir. A master of the horror genre, Jackson could have drawn on her own experience of anti-Semitism, along with her known interest in the study of folklore, to contribute this chilling representation of the personal experience of death selection to a discourse on Holocaust-related themes. As this article shows, the abstract discourse Jackson’s story joined is marked by skepticism about or disinterest in ethnic difference and anthropological concepts. Due to the fact that this article features comparative analysis of Holocaust literature, a sub-topic is the debate among scholars concerning the ethics of literary representation of the Shoah and of analysis of Holocaust memoir. Jackson’s story and its context invoke perennially important questions about identity and representation in discourse about the Shoah and anti-Semitism.

Jung’s Answer to Job: a modern myth for the times

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-180
Author(s):  
Christine Doran
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
World War ◽  
Giambattista Vico ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Times ◽  
Modern Myth

ABSTRACTJung’sAnswer to Jobwas one of the most allusive, and yet elusive, texts he ever wrote. This article offers an interpretation of what Jung was intending to accomplish in writing this strange book. It places it in historical context in the aftermath of World War II, a time of widespread public shock at the Holocaust and fear of imminent global destruction. By outlining some notable theories about the nature of myth, the true significance of Jung’s achievement can be better understood. In this regard the insightful concepts of the Italian philosopher, Giambattista Vico, are particularly helpful. The myth that almost immediately began to grow up surrounding the writing of the book and its controversial public reception is also discussed.

The Roosevelt Administration, the Holocaust, and the Jewish Refugees

1975 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Rockaway ◽  
Saul S. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Refugees ◽  
Roosevelt Administration ◽  
The Holocaust

scholarly journals Svenska judars berättelser om flyktingar, överlevande och hjälpverksamheter under och efter Förintelsen

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-84
Author(s):  
Malin Thor Tureby
Keyword(s):  
Research Field ◽  
Empirical Knowledge ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Relief Work ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Jewish Refugees ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Asking Questions ◽  
Post War ◽  
Aid Relief

Swedish Jews’ supposed inactivity over Europe’s persecuted Jews during the Holocaust has been a prevalent discourse during the post-war period. This article ponders the origins of that discourse and how it affects how and what Swedish Jews narrate about aid and relief work, and Jewish refugees and survivors, when recounting their memories from the 1930s and 1940s. This investigation also examines how previous research has addressed and represented the aid efforts of the Jewish minority in Sweden and discusses what new empirical knowledge about Swedish Jewish aid and relief work during the Holocaust we can ascertain by using oral history. Hence, it is also a contribution to the ongoing debate in the research field of ‘refugee studies’, initiated by the historians Philip Marfleet and Peter Gatrell, who emphasise both the importance of working with historical perspectives and asking questions about the sources at the disposal of historians and what sources they choose to work with when writing about aid, relief work and refugees.      

scholarly journals Influences of Racial Science in Hitler’s Europe

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Susnjar
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Third ◽  
Single Origin ◽  
Racial Science ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Impact

The origins of the Holocaust have been debated and evaluated by historians for decades. Since, historians have evaluated the Holocaust to not have a single origin, but rather view the Holocaust as an evolving narrative of suffrage of European Jewry and other groups. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the influences that racial science had on the Holocaust. Extensive research, and evaluation of historical context of antisemitic influences reveal that racial science was laden in policies implemented by the Nazi regime. The impact that racial science had on Europe during the Third Reich’s reign, effected social, political, and cultural aspects that ultimately led to the murder of millions of Jews and other groups.

scholarly journals Constructing Narrative Identities in the Holocaust Memories/Memoirs of Three Women

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 75-97
Author(s):  
Louise O. Vasvári
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Personal Knowledge ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
The Holocaust

Although only a decade in age separates each one from the next, the women whose life stories are discussed here represent three distinct Holocaust generations of Hungarian-speaking women. I aim to examine the recently published memories/memoirs of these three women whose narratives are all centered in the Holocaust when the deportations began in Hungary in 1944. Their personal stories are placed within a larger socio-historical context, but treat matters which come within the personal knowledge of the writer and therefore offer precisely the kind of alternative micro-history often provided by women’s narratives. All three authors also have in common that they left their homeland as young adults and hence their stories arguably belong more broadly to the most important subgenre of life writing today. While such writing is produced by both genders, writing by females predominates. My aim is, in part, to examine in the texts under discussion the three autobiographers as self-historians in their retrospective and crafted stories told (and retold) in different contexts, so that their life stories are not merely a recapitulation of past events but rather their creation of personal narrative identities.

scholarly journals Exhibiting Galicia: Problems of Interpretation and Other Reflections on the Permanent Exhibition at the Galicia Jewish Museum in Kraków

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 105-126
Author(s):  
Jonathan Webber
Keyword(s):  
Jewish History ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Critical Comment ◽  
Jewish Heritage ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
History Of ◽  
Opening Section ◽  
Jewish Museum

The purpose of this article is to offer a critical comment on the permanent exhibition of the Galicia Jewish Museum in Kraków. The exhibition is innovative in museological terms. It is not about the Jewish history of Galicia, nor is it arranged using conventional chronology, nor is it comprehensive. Rather it is divided into five sections, based on a five-part set of ideas, simple ideas intended to help visitors make sense of the complex realities surrounding the present-day situation of the Jewish heritage seventy-five years after the Holocaust. Let me now briefly outline how these five ideas are represented museologically, the five sections in which the exhibition is organized. The opening section directly presents the popular Jewish stereotype that post-Holocaust Poland is nothing but a vast Jewish graveyard. So this section of the exhibition consists entirely of the raw, shocking sight of desolation – for example, photos of ruined synagogues or ruined Jewish cemeteries. The 23 photos on show in this section include the appalling condition of the synagogue in Stary Dzików (a small town near the Ukrainian border) as it looked in the 1990s and of the devastated Jewish cemetery in Czarny Dunajec (a small town near the Slovak border) at that time. Emphasizing what has been lost by showing the Jewish past of Poland in ruins, and how in that sense the effects of the Holocaust on the built Jewish heritage are still visible, even today, is certainly a powerful and provocative way to begin an exhibition in a Jewish museum.

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