The new grammar of Otherness: Europe, the Shoah, and the Jews

The essay discusses the passage from an ideological, patriotic and anti-fascist memory of the deportations and the extermination to what the author describes as the "ethnic" memory of the Shoah, which has played, and continues to play, a central role in constructing the European historical...

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Published in:Jewish history 2010-06, Vol.24 (2), p.105-126
Main Author: CONSONNI, MANUELA
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Deportation
Essays
Ethnicity
Fascism
History
Holocaust
Ideology
Jewish history
Jewish identity
Jewish peoples
Judaic studies
Memory
Methodology of the Social Sciences
Nazism
Otherness
Religious Studies
Theory
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Summary:The essay discusses the passage from an ideological, patriotic and anti-fascist memory of the deportations and the extermination to what the author describes as the "ethnic" memory of the Shoah, which has played, and continues to play, a central role in constructing the European historical narrative as that narrative depicts the Jews as Europe's "other". Theoretical reflection on memory is intertwined with historical analysis of the period between 1945 until the end of the twentieth century. Two, binary perspectives are featured, one, which examines memory from a cognitive point of view and the other, which examines memory from a cultural, ideological, moral and political perspective. These perspectives come to the fore in memoire-literature, movies, plays, historiographie and philosophical debates, which illustrate the two perspectives and their articulation, as well as they justify the essay's periodization.
ISSN:0334-701X
1572-8579
DOI:10.1007/s10835-010-9104-0