“Storytelling is an ancient art”: Stories, Maps, Migrants and Flâneurs in Arnold Zable’s Selected Texts by Dagmara Drewniak

“…Nadine Fresco in her research on exiled Holocaust survivors uses the term diaspora des cendres (1981) to depict the status of Jewish migrants whose lives are forever marked by their tragic experience as well as a conviction that “the[ir] place of origins has gone up in ashes” (Hirsch 243). …”
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De Bezetting revisited. Hoe van De Oorlog een ‘normale’ geschiedenis werd gemaakt die eindigt in vrede by Barbara Henkes

“…Barbara Henkes examines how this audiovisual history can be interpreted and contextualized within Dutch historiography concerning the Second World War and the holocaust. The War was inspired by the wish to take a stand against the viewpoint that was articulated by figures such as the well-known historian, Loe de Jong. …”
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L’origine, la ferita by Filippo Fimiani

“…The depictions we see of the Holocaust are false, not based on visual documents, a mix of incompatible evidences and iconographies, an amalgam of irreconcilable informations and representations. …”
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El Holocausto Romaní a través de las emociones by Anabel Carballo-Mesa

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Imaginary Jews and True Confessions: Ethnicity, Lyricism, and John Berryman's <em>Dream Songs</em> by Andrew S. Gross

“…My essay traces the critical reception—and rejection—of Berryman in order to expose what I see as the "identitarian" bias of American studies since the 1970s, most recently evident in debates over "the Americanization of the Holocaust." Berryman's transpersonal poetry, I argue, is also transnational, both in its personification of Nazi victims and in its comparison of domestic racism and the Vietnam War to genocide. …”
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The location of transcultural memory in Vikram Seth’s memoir Two Lives (2005) by Nadia Butt

“…These two lives, I argue, serve as a historical document, revealing how family histories turn out to be a unique manifestation of “global memories” such as the Holocaust, the Second World War, or the partition of India. …”
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Rousseau in a Post-Apocalyptic Context: Angela Carter’s <i>Heroes and Villains</i> and Science Fiction by Yutaka Okuhata

“…Observing the underlying motifs in the novel, the paper will reveal how Carter attempts to portray a world where human history has totally ended, or where people cannot make &#8220;history&#8221; in spite of the fact that they biologically survived the holocaust. From this perspective, I will clarify the way in which Carter reinterprets Rousseau&#8217;s notion of &#8220;fallen&#8221; civilisation in the new context as a critique of the nuclear issues in the late twentieth century.…”
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“Ich habe ihn mehr geliebt als mein Leben”. Literarische Bekenntnisse Ingeborg Bachmanns zu Paul Celan in ihrer utopischen Geschichte Die Geheimnisse der Prinzessin von Kagran by Mihaela AANEI

“…For that manner, in Malina and especially in the inserted story The Secrets of the Princess of Kagran, there are noticeable clues which remind of Celan’s personal history and of his personality: the details regarding the magic appearance of „the stranger” who is supposed to belong to an ancient and misterious lineage, veiled in a long, black cloak, as well as his placement in different harsh circumstances specific to the nazi torture locations give the reader a solid insight about the true destiny of the poet and Holocaust survivor Paul Celan.…”
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Text’s Suppression as the Apparatus of the Marginality Hierarchy (Gérard Wajcman’s Novel “The Forbidden”) by Galyna Dranenko

“…We stressed that the lacking of the boy text in Gérard Wajcman’s novel, which is the part of the paradigm “Literature of the Holocaust”, is the symbol of the obliteration and of the language loss in general and particularly of the family’s language Yiddish. …”
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Revisionism and Neo-Revisionism in Russian Foreign Policy: Reflecting on the Book by Sakwa R. Russia’s Futures. Polity Press, 2019 by Daria B. Kazarinova

“…Efremenko), the change of the Holocaust narrative to the narrative of the “war of two totalitarianisms” in Europe, Russia should adopt a number of principles for working in the field of historical memory of the Second World War, including new interpretations for the role of China in the victory over fascism.…”
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Managing Non-COVID acute neurology amidst the pandemic: Challenges and work in progress by Anu Gupta, Venugopalan Y Vishnu, Mamta B Singh, Rohit Bhatia, Roopa Rajan, Deepti Vibha, Arunmozhimaran Elavarasi, Divya Radhakrishnan, Ayush Agarwal, Bhargavi Ramanujam, Animesh Das, Rajesh K Singh, Awadh K Pandit, Achal Srivastava, Manjari Tripathi, Kameshwar Prasad, M V Padma Srivastava

“…In this specter, better described as a medical holocaust, we present our experiences of dealing with acute neurological patients who could access our facility. …”
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A literatura de testemunho e a violência de Estado Literature of testimony and state violence by Valeria de Marco

“…One of them grows up from the Latin American literature; the other, from the thought on shoah, a largely employed word for holocaust. Both see mimesis as the essence of literature, but have different understandings about whether literature can represent reality - they even elaborate antagonic interpretative hypothesis about the literary production related to the concept of testimony. …”
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The All-Knowing Narrator's Mental Sanctuary by Yeo, Nicole Yew Min

“…The essay utilises the explanation of Dominick LaCapra, a trauma theorist and Holocaust historian, that the desire for a connection with the “dead intimates” causes trauma survivors to “invest” in the trauma memory by reliving and prolonging the experience as a “necessary commemoration or memorial” that the dead did not receive (23). …”
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The Troubled Patriot: German Innerlichkeit in World War II by Stargardt, N

“…How German society responded to the Holocaust, military defeat, Allied bombing and the mass flights from the Eastern territories in 1945 needs to be seen in relation to the larger question of morale and attitudes towards the continuation of the war per se. …”

Pétain’s Jewish children: French Jewish youth and the Vichy Regime by Lee, D

“…Despite Vichy’s implication in the Holocaust, this study examines the possibility for convergence, however partial and temporary, between Vichy’s plans for regeneration and Jewish ambitions to participate in the New Order. …”

Visions of citizenship and state: debating Jews and Judaism in eighteenth-century Prussia by de la Bedoyere, M

“…It builds upon recent scholarship which stresses the importance of seeing eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German Jewry in its own terms and not through the lens of the Holocaust. The primary aim of this dissertation is to show that the eighteenth century witnessed a remarkable transformation in perceptions of Jews and Judaism — a transformation which helped lay the groundwork for the Jewish entry into modernity. …”

Dziedzictwo kompleksów. Kulturowa klęska Kresów? by Katarzyna R. Łozowska

“…Apart from pride, Poles strongly felt the sense of injustice for territorial, cultural and economic loss, unjust accusations of our neighbours, but also a hidden sense of guilt, Poles’ co‑responsibility for the Holocaust or our colonization past. A discourse of multiculturalism is considered to be the product of passion and power, needs, anxieties, projects and longings. …”
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„Sprache, du heilige“: Sprachreflexionen in der deutschen Dichtung der Bukowina by Petro Rychlo

“…Infolge der fortschreitenden Romanisierung des Landes und der Bedrohung des Sprachverlusts greifen um diese Zeit viele Czernowitzer deutschjüdische Dichter öfters zur Sprachproblematik, indem sie sie in ihren Gedichten im tragischen Sinne thematisieren. Nach dem Holocaust und der Emigration aus der Bukowina verwandelt sich die Muttersprache für verbannte Dichter in ein Synonym der Heimat („Mutterland Wort“). …”
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Teorías de la conspiración: de la paranoia al genocidio=Conspiracy theories: from paranoia to genocide by Alejandro M. Gallo

“…This is non-innocuous as history has demonstrated that the implantation of such theories and their evolution from the pathological to the logical parallels the transition from individual paranoia to the Holocaust genocide. …”
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Measuring Human “Progress” in the New Millennium: The Jewish Question Revisited by David Lempert

“…While “identity based” political choice that slows the overall “progress” of civilization appears to have protected Jewish interests in the short term, historical comparisons suggest that this choice will endanger Jews if the U.S. economy and U.S. global influence collapse, in a direct historical parallel to the European Holocaust; offering an opportunity to test theories on how (and whether) “progress” occurs. …”
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