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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Holocaust memory"”.
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Continental Drifters: Holocaust Memory, Decolonization, and Postwar Migration to Europe
… the relationship between the cultural memory of the Holocaust and postwar migration to Europe from the Global South. I argue that the European postcolonial and migrant literature I read claims the history of the Jewish Question and Holocaust memory as critical resources for Europe's new …
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From the Battlefield to the Archive: Tracing Testimony in Holocaust Memory
… the evolving role of testimony in shaping public memory of World War II and the Holocaust. As the last generation of eyewitnesses passes, societies increasingly rely on preserved, mediated forms of testimony to understand and remember traumatic pasts. Testimony, whether handwritten, oral, visual, …
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"Things that demand to be told": Holocaust memory and American high schools
Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.
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Memory, Cinema and Deathscapes: Re-membering the Holocaust in Poland
Holocaust memory is at a critical juncture. The intersection of anxieties about survivors and firsthand witnesses growing fewer and frailer, the ever-growing importance and ongoing boom in popular media representations of the Holocaust across the last four decades, and the contemporary threat of …
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Aesthetic Shapes of Holocaust Literature and Pedagogical Applications
… three narratives that are part of the genre of Holocaust Literature: Elie Wiesel’s Night, Art Spiegelman’s Maus, and John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the way in which each of these texts contributes to collective Holocaust memory and traumatic literature: as a memoir, graphic …
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Reporting on the Holocaust in South Africa: An Examination of Press Coverage and Memorialization in the Aftermath of World War II
… scholarly work has focused on the development of Holocaust memory in South Africa, particularly regarding the extent to which the Holocaust has been ‘domesticated' – refracted through a local lens – in this country. This dissertation seeks to add to a broader scholarly effort to explain how a …
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Teaching humanity: Placing the Cape Town Holocaust Centre in a post-apartheid state
This dissertation examines the development of Holocaust education in South Africa, specifically in the period of political transition to democracy and the two decades after apartheid. The history of placing the Holocaust in post-apartheid South Africa shows the dynamics and tensions of identity …
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German Militant Ignorance towards Palestinian Experiences of Israeli Settler Colonialism
… the intricate connections between German Holocaust memory and Germany’s position of power within colonial power dynamics. To capture the ways in which both act together to create Germany’s discourse on Palestine, it develops the concept of militant ignorance which it defined as an active …
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From the Ashes of History: Trauma, National Identity and State-Building in India and Israel
… as comprised of competing narrations of memory (including traumatic memory). The identity narratives that constitute these discourses weave together experience and knowledge, bridging the divide between the individual and the social to create the logics of policymaking. The second chapter …
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"A Memorial and a Name": Construction of Public Memory Through Chronotopic Arrangement of Antecedent Genre at Yad Vashem
… of the defeat of the Nazis and the end of the Holocaust in Europe. Memory of this genocide has occupied a central place in Israeli identity since the establishment of the state. This thesis explores the history of Holocaust memory in Israel and examines how public memory is constructed in the …
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Uncanny Homelands: Disability, Race, and the Politics of Memory
… and comparative study of German and Italian memory culture after 1945. It examines how the interaction between memorials, litera-ture, historiography, and popular culture shapes a society's memory and identity. I focus on two marginalized aspects of the memory of the Holocaust: the Nazi …
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Re-Negotiating Czechoslovakia. The State and the Jews in Communist Central Europe: The Czech Lands, 1945-1989
… rebuild the Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust. Before they could establish a new modus vivendi, before the wounds of the war could begin to heal, the Communist Party came to power with dreams of transforming society. It brought the state under the Soviet Union's sphere of influence …
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Distant proximities: Whiteness and worldedness in contemporary Jewish literature
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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The Cultural Memory Of German Victimhood In Post-1990 Popular German Literature And Television
… and the Second World War in post-1990 German memory. After unification, there no longer were two states that could each blame the other as the heir of National Socialism and this past had to be renegotiated. The claim that many Germans had been victims became central as evidenced by the vast …
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Gedächtnis und Trauma im zeitgenössischen österreichischen Familienroman
… Jewish and non-Jewish descent, I largely rely on memory theory from Social and Cultural Studies as well as on concepts of trauma and postmemory, both of which have been highly influenced by psychoanalysis. I consider the family novel that has flourished since the end of the 1990s to be a variation …