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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Post-Holocaust"”.
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A space between : contemplating the post-Holocaust subject
… Six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, but they were not the only victims. Approximately one and a half million Gypsies, at least 250 000 physically or mentally disabled people, three million Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Social Democrats, …
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THE JEWISH ANIMAL IN POST-HOLOCAUST JEWISH AMERICAN POETRY
… above animals. This dissertation argues that post-Holocaust, Jewish American poets help us reconsider the boundaries of “human” and “animal” in the American imagination, ultimately creating an animal poetics that flips the script, demonstrating that yes, we are all animals, which demands not …
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The German Jewish Post-Holocaust Novel: Narrative and a Literary Language for Loss
… how a constellation of German Jewish post-Holocaust novels confronts the paradox of recovering and recuperating lost stories of Holocaust victims. I analyze how works by Edgar Hilsenrath, Jurek Becker, and Fred Wander reveal a preoccupation with the innumerable stories and testimonies …
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The Translation From Memory to Postmemory: The Mother-Daughter Dialogue in Post-Holocaust Literature
… and daughters in all of the texts shows that postmemory emerges as a translation of the mother's original memory."
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The Problem of Coming to Terms with the Past: A Post-Holocaust Theology of Remembrance
… the problem of coming to terms with the past in post-World War II Germany in the wake of the Holocaust by examining the philosophical critiques of Theodor Adorno and Eric Voegelin. It then extends these critiques into the ongoing discussion of post-Holocaust philosophy and theology, while …
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The Continual Trauma of Survivorship: the Historical Complexities of Time Constructs in Relation to Holocaust Diaries, Memoirs, and Testimonies
… this case study reveals that the term ‘post-Holocaust’ does not provide an accurate depiction of what it means to have survived the Holocaust. It is by using an interdisciplinary approach and the compilation of Holocaust literature that the thesis of ‘post- Holocaust’ does not and cannot …
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The Monument: The Shoah and German Memory
… manifestations in the form of the planned Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. The research project sets out to critique and analyse a body of artistic, literary and philosophical works that engage with the problematics of remembering and re-presenting the Shoah. It explores these critical …
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Survivor’s Guilt and the Ethics of Remembering in Isaac Bashevis Singer's The Slave and Cynthia Ozick’s “The Shawl”
<p>The focus of this thesis is an analysis of post-Holocaust Jewish-American literature with a specific emphasis on texts set in Europe. In particular, I examine how Jewish-American authors who lived in the United States during the Holocaust address issues of trauma and survivor’s guilt through …
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Memorial Museums and Material Witnesses: Framing Objects as Witnesses to Trauma
… failure of linguistic representation in the post-Holocaust, post-Hiroshima, post-Vietnam era” (Leys, p. 267f). This thesis will contribute to the theoretical and museological conversation concerning objects and their representation in the aftermath of trauma, with an emphasis on …
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Absent meaning: Fascination, narrative, and trauma in the Holocaust imaginary
<p>Examining post-1970 representations of the Holocaust and Nazism along with critical responses to these representations, the dissertation demonstrates how a use of the term "fascination" has shaped contemporary understandings of how the Holocaust should and should not be represented and …
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The Ha-Ha Holocaust: Exploring Levity Amidst the Ruins and Beyond in Testimony, Literature and Film
… political, and historical realities of the Holocaust. Paradoxically, contentiously, doses of levity during this period were very much a reality, and even a psychological necessity. The purpose of my thesis is to explore the historical, social, and political ramifications of such laughter …
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The representation of ultra-Orthodox Jewish women as heroines in the novels of four Jewish-American women writers
… representation of women’s experiences within post-holocaust Ultra-Orthodoxy. It will explore the notion of what an Ultra-Orthodox heroine is and examine whether a coherent picture of Ultra-Orthodox heroines emerges through a consideration of the similarities and differences between the four …
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Post-Shoah Shylocks: adapting 'The Merchant of Venice' for twentieth and twenty-first century audiences
… The Merchant of Venice remains, even after the Holocaust, one of the most popular and frequently performed works from the Shakespeare canon. Although much has already been written on the play’s anti-Semitism, Shylock, and various individual productions, an in-depth global study of the …
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10:31, MCR: a practice-as-research project that investigates ethical dramaturgical approaches to politically sensitive theatre-making with and for young people.
… practice, dramaturgy, looks at the influence of Postdramatic and Post- Holocaust theatre theories (implemented by Hans-Thies Lehmann and Heiner Müller’s writings) which found their place in the scripting workshop with the young people. The third practice is the rehearsal process leading up to …
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Mike Nichols. Elaine May, Mel Brooks, and Woody Allen's "New Cabaret": underground Jewish humor and the evolution of the new Hollywood aesthetic
… divide was facilitated by the prosperity of post-war America” (Gair 4). The filmmakers here did not share the same counterculture values of their generational peers but instead developed a unique Jewish post-Holocaust sense of guilt by not being a part of an enabled underground resistance, …
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"Rewriting and redefining Utopia; minorities' perfect existence or ultimate destruction"
… to understand the spiral of oppression, the Holocaust is reflected upon from a minority perspective, and literary responses as well as issues of post-holocaust compensation are addressed, reflecting the nature of the universal majority and universal minority. Finally, Utopia is often …
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Imagined communities, divided realities : engaging the apartheid past through 'healing of memories' in a post-TRC South Africa
… democratic culture among ordinary citizens in post-apartheid South Africa, insufficient attention has been paid to transformations of interpersonal domains. The dissertation examines the process and effects of the Healing of Memories (HOM) project in Cape Town. HOM is a civil society initiative …
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Kosmos and Ioudaioi in the Fourth Gospel: Parallelism, function and context
… Chapter 1 introduces the discussion about the post-Holocaust theology and its significance for biblical studies in general and for the New Testament and the meaning of "the Jews" in the Gospel of John in particular. Chapter 2 presents five different views about the meaning of "the Jews" in the …