Remembering the Holocaust in Germany, Austria, Italy and Israel

"Vergangenheitsbewältigung" as a Historical Quest. Free Ebrei Volume 3
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46222-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

Reihe: Free Ebrei

Remembering the Holocaust in Germany, Austria, Italy and Israel: “Vergangenheitsbewältigung” as a Historical Quest offers an account on post-war coming-to-terms with the Holocaust tragedy in some European countries, such as Germany, Austria, and Italy. The subject has attracted more attention in recent years, since the long transition to liberal democracy seems to have put an end to the main theme of the memory of the Second World War.

The main point of the volume is the making of a new generational memory after the “end of history”. What is to be done after the making of a globalised world? What about the memorialisation of the last century?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pinto, Vincenzo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Meaning of History: Coming to Terms with the Past

Vincenzo Pinto

part 1: Articles

1 “Coming to Terms with the Past” or “Policy for the Past”? The 1950s West German Compensations for Holocaust Survivors and German Expellees

Iris Nachum

2 Austria’s Repressed Guilt in Theory and Practice

Claudia Leeb

3 Coming to Terms with the Holocaust with Reference to Memorial Monuments in Europe: A Comparative Analysis

Antonella Tiburzi

4 Theodor W. Adorno, Günther Anders, and the Representation of the End Time: Beckett at Auschwitz

Micaela Latini

5 “Against a Present that Places the Incomprehensible in the Cold Storage of History”: The Representation and Experience of Limit in Jean Améry and Primo Levi

Matteo Cavalleri

6 Between a Quest for a Heimat and Alienation: Jean Améry’s Journey after Auschwitz

Francesco Ferrari

7 “Denn fühlen die Mächtigen sich bedroht, so schlagen sie die Gerechten”: Looking at History in König David Bericht by Stefan Heym

Massimo De Villa

8 “Those Who Have Suffered Too Much Do Not Always Reason Well”: Primo Levi, Furio Jesi, and the 1968 Debate on Spiritual and Political Zionism

Carlo Trombino

part 2: Testimonies

Testimony 1: Does a Past Pass?

Gianerico Rusconi

Testimony 2: The Meaning of Italian “Resistenza”

Alberto Cavaglion

part 3: Appendices

Appendix 1: The Meaning of Working through the Past

Theodor W. Adorno

Appendix 2: Commemorative Event in the Plenary Hall of the German Bundestag on the 40th Anniversary of the End of the Second World War in Europe (Bonn, May 8, 1985)

Richard von Weiszäcker

Appendix 3: A Letter to Monica (25th April 1983)

Primo Levi

Coming to Terms with the Past in Postwar Germany: A Bibliography

Stefano Aliberti

Index of Names and Places

Über Autor(innen)

Vincenzo Pinto, Ph.D. (1974) is an Italian historian, teacher, and journalist. He has published books, translations, and critical editions on Zionism, anti-Semitism, and Jewish contemporary identity. Among them, the biography of Ze'ev Vladimir Jabotinsky (2007) and the first Italian critical edition of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf (2017).