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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"The Shoah"”.
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The Monument: The Shoah and German Memory
The aim of this research project is to analyse forms of remembrance and memory of the Shoah in Germany in its and their political and cultural formations. The underlying question driving the research project is Adorno's famous essay 'What does it mean: coming-to-terms with the past? ''. The thesis …
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"Worse than the Gestapo"? Berlin Jews accused of collaboration during and after the Shoah
Philipp Dinkelaker’s doctoral thesis focuses on individuals who were persecuted on antisemitic grounds and accused of collaborating with the Gestapo in Berlin during and after the Holocaust. Based on exemplary case studies from a pool of over 80 researched biographies of alleged Jewish …
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The Good Italian, the Bad German, and the Survivor: Narratives and Counter-Narratives of the Shoah in Italy
<p>The study herein explores the history and memory of the Shoah in Italy through the eyes, primarily, of survivors themselves. Pairing witness testimonies (memoirs and oral interviews) with government records, I show how Italy’s Jewish survivors, for many decades after World War II and the Shoah, …
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'The Place of My Fathers' Sepulchres' : the Jewish cemeteries in Vienna
This thesis presents the first integrated history of Vienna’s four Jewish cemeteries as sites reflecting the construction, negotiation and at times contestation of Jewish communal belonging within Viennese society, embedded in the Viennese cityscape. Through a novel analysis of the sepulchral …
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Steiner's Shoah : a conversation in silence
This study explores George Steiner's approach to the historical and literary representation of the Shoah. Steiner's conception of human language as a vibrant living organism, the prime carrier of both civilization and its opposite--nihilism, is foundational to his thought on Holocaust …
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How the ideology and political structures of Nazi Germany enabled the Holocaust : a study in ideology and political structures
This thesis presents an analysis of the political and social structures of the Third Reich and how, informed by the ideology of Nazism, they enabled the Holocaust, from the two different political-scientific approaches of interpretivism and structuralism. The argument is that Nazi ideology informed …
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'Mastering the genocide narrative' : an analysis of the Rwandan Patriotic Front's official narrative of the Rwandan genocide
How should the relevant facts about the Rwandan Government's construction of their narrative ofthe Rwandan genocide be established? A frequent point of emphasis by scholars is that an official narrative usually is put forward by the dominant or ruling group to serve their interests: the contents …
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The SS: The Phony Elite and Brutal Preparators of the Holocaust
<p>The SS have long been considered Hitler‘s elite forces, the most ideologically committed and advanced version of the New Nazi man. This work demonstrates as the war progressed, the SS came to rely more heavily on those who were not elite but rather of dubious, criminal, and poorly educated …
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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
… recently, little 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 …
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Post-Shoah Shylocks: adapting 'The Merchant of Venice' for twentieth and twenty-first century audiences
In spite of the anti-Semitic sentiments scattered throughout the play, 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 …
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Afterlives: Translations of German Weltliteratur Into Yiddish
My dissertation examines the Yiddish translation and reception of canonical German texts to trace the changes in the cultural value placed on German language and literature in Yiddish discourse at significant points of historical transition between 1876 and 1966. I compare German literary texts …
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Victimhood as a driving force in the intractability of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: reflections on collective memory, conflict ethos, and collective emotional orientations.
In intractable conflicts the feelings and claims of victimhood are as mature and well-entrenched as the conflict itself. The longer a conflict is waged, the more the geopolitical reasons for victimisation shift to the psychological. This gradually blurs the difference between facts and perceptions, …
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FILIATIONS OF THE NEGATIVE IN FRANZ KAFKA, PAUL CELAN, AND ANDRE GREEN
Within the specific theoretical framework developed by the French-Jewish psychoanalyst André Green (1927-2012) the dissertation investigates the work of the Negative in the late writings of two crucial German-Jewish authors: Franz Kafka (1883-1924) and Paul Celan (1920-1970). Providing a new …
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Az Újszövetség és a Tóra
The past fifty years have witnessed profound changes in the paradigmatic viewpoints of historical scholarship on the New Testament. Partly as a consequence of these changes, a real revolution got underway in Christian theology as well, particularly in the field of Jewish- Christian relations. These …
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Between Culture and Barbarism: Aesthetics, Politics and the Redemptive Origins of Critical Theory, 1918-1969
Focusing on a series of debates on aesthetics and politics, this dissertation represents the intellectual history of one unique mode of exchange between intellectuals from across the political spectrum in twentieth century German thought. Although commonly associated with liberal bourgeois and …