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Hier ist kein warum. A propósito de la memoria y la imagen de los campos de la muerte
1999
Los tres ejemplos que acabamos de examinar ponen en evidencia tres estrategias diferentes respecto a la representación, la puesta en escena y el montaje de un acontecimiento humillante, conmovedor y único del pasado. Estas estrategias ofrecen su propia respuesta a la cuestión de aquello que es representable y aquello que se resiste a serlo; en otros términos, definen el límite donde la mirada debe detenerse para ser consecuente con una actitud ética. Por añadido, estas tres maneras de proceder se anclan a su vez en la época que las ha producido, subrayando por sus marcas de enunciación una perspectiva diferente frente a la memoria, un estado de conocimientos determinado, una doxa al orden d…
Mortal threat: Latvian Jews at the dawn of Nazi occupation
2018
In late June 1941, Nazi Germany stormed the borders of the Soviet Union, occupying the three Baltic republics within weeks. By the end of 1941, a significant proportion of the Jewish population had been murdered by German forces and local collaborators. In the days before full Nazi occupation of the territory, Latvia's Jews confronted the question of whether to flee into the Russian interior or stay in their communities. History shows that this would be a critical choice. Testimonies and memoirs of Jewish survivors illuminate the competing motivations to leave or to remain. This article highlights the key factors that figured into these calculations and the interaction between individual ag…
Ciało, trup, śmierć w utworze "Götz i Meyer" Davida Albahariego
2019
The article investigates the broadly understood record of Jewish death that emerges from the text of the Serbian prose writer David Albahari. Emphasizing the dominance of economy in the Nazi system, the author indicates those procedures described in Albahari’s book which justify such an assessment (e.g. human reification, the body as debris, technical syntax used by German officials). Additionally, these considerations on death representation are supplemented with an endeavor to establish the Belgrade dwellers’ attitude towards the fortunes of the Jews. According to the author, the novel explicitly marks the spatial opposition (enclosure vs. opening, the camp vs. the city center) that is re…
The Holocaust, the Founding of Israel and the Arab-Israeli War in the British, Swedish and Finnish Press
2011
The fact that the gap between the founding of the state of Israel and the end of the Holocaust was only three years (almost to date), creates, at least in retrospect, a strong link between the two events. Articulating this view, Walter Harrelson has written that ‘[A] shamed world was certainly ready, after the Holocaust and the struggle of Jews from Europe to get to Israel, to support the Partition Plan that led to the establishment of the state.’1 Yehuda Bauer has argued that the birth of a nation ‘bridges the gap between an unconquered past tragedy and the hope for the resurrection of an almost mortally wounded people’.2 Peter Novick also agrees that the link exists, although in less cert…
Pamięci nieukojone. Wokół upamiętniania ofiar w Serbii i Chorwacji (Jasenovac, Bleiburg i belgradzkie Sajmište)
2016
Tekst koncentruje się na przemianach tożsamości narodowych w dwóch krajach postjugosłowiańskich (Serbii i Chorwacji). (Re)konstrukcje przeszłości mające tam miejsce od lat dziewięćdziesiątych XX wieku zakładały przede wszystkim zanegowanie dziedzictwa wspólnego opartego na zmitologizowanej walce partyzanckiej, a następnie wybór z przeszłości tych wydarzeń, o których pamięć należy kultywować. Walka przeciwstawnych pamięci (serbskiej i chorwackiej) oraz polaryzacja społeczeństwa chorwackiego pokazana zostaje na przykładzie praktyk komemoratywnych związanych z miejscami zagłady (Jasenovac i Bleiburg) z okresu drugiej wojny światowej. W tekście przywołano również miejsce kojarzone z Holokaustem…
Nie ma takiej wiedzy, która jest ostateczna. Każda stanowi przedsionek prowadzący do nowych obszarów niewiedzy. "Götz i Meyer" Davida Albahariego
2018
This article’s aim is to analyze David Albahari’s Götz and Meyer as the only Serbian literary text whose main theme is the extermination of the native Jews. The recurring key-word of the analysis is the notion of void, which appears both on the plot level and a more metaphorical one that connotes a less perceptible meaning of Albahari’s prose which can be summarized as a conviction about the insufficient memory of the Holocaust in Serbia. The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate what method Albahari employs to build his story. Consequently, juxtaposing history (ostensibly objective, linked with the order of reason) with fiction proves to be here of the utmost importance. It demonstrates…
Babij Jar: lo sterminio taciuto e l’arte dell’eufemismo
2020
Confrontando le poesie dedicate al massacro di Babij Jar (lo sterminio metodico di tutta la popolazione ebraica rimasta a Kiev dopo la conquista nazista) da Il’ja Erenburg ed Evgenij Evtušenko dovremmo con ogni probabilità considerare superiore quella del primo. La sua qualità poetica deriva in gran parte dall’uso dell’allusione, del non detto, che apre spazi semantici superiori; questa caratteristica deriva però probabilmente da un caso di necessità: Erenburg, che scriveva nel 1945, cercava evidentemente una strada per far penetrare alla stampa una commemorazione delle vittime di Babij Jar in un periodo in cui, in Unione Sovietica, era impossibile farlo in modo più esplicito – nella prima …
Om å bære dødens tyngde – Fotografier og visuelle fortellestrategier i Gaute Heivolls roman Himmelarkivet
2012
Author's version of an article in the journal: Edda. Also available from the publisher at: http://www.idunn.no/ts/edda/2012/02/om_aa_baere_doedens_tyngde_-_fotografier_og_visuelle_fortelles Himmelarkivet (2008) by Gaute Heivoll is part of an international trend of fiction concerned with traumatic events from World War II reflecting on the question of how these events should be described and understood. One main narrative device in the work is the use of image-related elements, and the goal of this article is to interpret their significance and effect. On the one hand, the argument is that they work as documents confirming the authenticity of the narrative and, on the other, that these visua…
The Jewish Press and the Holocaust, 1939-1945: Palestine, Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union, Yosef Gorny (Cambridge: Cambridge Univers…
2013
«If you wrong us, shall we not revenge?»: la Shoah in scena
2020
Review on a short essay by Cynthia Ozick, Who Owns Anne Frank? The essay, published in 1997, was translated into Italian in 2019. The contribution start from Ozick's text to reflect on the genesis of Anne Frank’s book and on the presence of the Shoah in contemporary culture.