Pub Date : 2022-04-26DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2022.2058730
Jessica Kempner
ABSTRACT This paper explores the engagement and attitudes of students in a UK school learning about the Holocaust, with a focus on refugee students. This paper explores students’ behavioral, cognitive and emotional engagement with the subject, with a focus on the students’ experiences. Findings revealed an enthusiasm and understanding from most students, but particularly refugee students. The culture in the classroom was also studied, showing that there were pockets of antisemitism in its contemporary form present in the classroom, impacting student learning. This paper explores the links between these findings, the implications and suggestions of what this means for current practice.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-22DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2022.2028434
Anna Veprinska
ABSTRACT During their interviews with the Visual History Archive, hundreds of Holocaust survivors recite poems. This article examines empathy in poetry written and read by two poet-survivors, Martha Osvat and Jacob Rosenberg, as well as empathy in two poems I write after viewing their interviews. Recognizing the dual potential of empathy to help and harm, both the poems the survivors recite and my response poems variously request and refuse empathy in a process I term empathetic dissonance. This academic-creative paper argues that empathy is suspect in the context of the Holocaust and probes the ethical boundaries of approaching another’s traumatic experiences.
{"title":"There and un-there: empathy in poetic encounters with Holocaust survivor interviews","authors":"Anna Veprinska","doi":"10.1080/17504902.2022.2028434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2022.2028434","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT During their interviews with the Visual History Archive, hundreds of Holocaust survivors recite poems. This article examines empathy in poetry written and read by two poet-survivors, Martha Osvat and Jacob Rosenberg, as well as empathy in two poems I write after viewing their interviews. Recognizing the dual potential of empathy to help and harm, both the poems the survivors recite and my response poems variously request and refuse empathy in a process I term empathetic dissonance. This academic-creative paper argues that empathy is suspect in the context of the Holocaust and probes the ethical boundaries of approaching another’s traumatic experiences.","PeriodicalId":36890,"journal":{"name":"Holocaust Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"1 - 22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45152719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-06DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2022.2057118
Cheuk Him Ryan Sun
Abstract The British colony of Hong Kong was one of the last ports that Jewish refugees transited through before their arrival in Shanghai. By using recently declassified materials this paper argues that Hong Kong played a more complicated role an ambiguous refuge: one that provided shelter, but whose colonial administration was responsible for the internment and expulsion of Jewish refugees. This paper broadens its inquiry by analyzing local and historiographical factors that contributed to Hong Kong being overlooked. Adopting a Global Holocaust framework and following refugees' paths of escape reveals Hong Kong as more than just a transit port.
{"title":"The Holocaust and Hong Kong: an overlooked history","authors":"Cheuk Him Ryan Sun","doi":"10.1080/17504902.2022.2057118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2022.2057118","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The British colony of Hong Kong was one of the last ports that Jewish refugees transited through before their arrival in Shanghai. By using recently declassified materials this paper argues that Hong Kong played a more complicated role an ambiguous refuge: one that provided shelter, but whose colonial administration was responsible for the internment and expulsion of Jewish refugees. This paper broadens its inquiry by analyzing local and historiographical factors that contributed to Hong Kong being overlooked. Adopting a Global Holocaust framework and following refugees' paths of escape reveals Hong Kong as more than just a transit port.","PeriodicalId":36890,"journal":{"name":"Holocaust Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"393 - 413"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47461663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-04DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2022.2057145
Judith Woolf
ABSTRACT Part I of the article looks at the challenge of writing Holocaust poetry and music in the light of Adorno’s revision of his famous pronouncement about poetry after Auschwitz into an acknowledgment that suffering ‘demands the continued existence of art while it prohibits it,’ and goes on to consider how the poets Paul Celan, Karen Gershon, Geoffrey Hill, Primo Levi, Sylvia Plath, Peter Porter, Nelly Sachs and Hilda Schiff, and the composers Harrison Birtwistle, David Lumsdaine, Steve Reich and Arnold Schoenberg make use of their personal distance from their subject matter as they attempt to create art out of atrocity. Part II discusses how the historical source material of the author’s libretto in memory of the child victims of the Holocaust was crafted into the musical forms of recitative, lieder, lullaby and biblical lament.
{"title":"Massacre of the Innocents: creating a Holocaust memorial libretto","authors":"Judith Woolf","doi":"10.1080/17504902.2022.2057145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2022.2057145","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Part I of the article looks at the challenge of writing Holocaust poetry and music in the light of Adorno’s revision of his famous pronouncement about poetry after Auschwitz into an acknowledgment that suffering ‘demands the continued existence of art while it prohibits it,’ and goes on to consider how the poets Paul Celan, Karen Gershon, Geoffrey Hill, Primo Levi, Sylvia Plath, Peter Porter, Nelly Sachs and Hilda Schiff, and the composers Harrison Birtwistle, David Lumsdaine, Steve Reich and Arnold Schoenberg make use of their personal distance from their subject matter as they attempt to create art out of atrocity. Part II discusses how the historical source material of the author’s libretto in memory of the child victims of the Holocaust was crafted into the musical forms of recitative, lieder, lullaby and biblical lament.","PeriodicalId":36890,"journal":{"name":"Holocaust Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"464 - 487"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43319757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-21DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2022.2054584
G. Bayer
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Pub Date : 2022-03-17DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2022.2047292
Magdalena Waligórska, I. Sorkina
ABSTRACT This article examines the ways in which Jewish personal belongings that have been appropriated by gentiles during, and in the aftermath of, the Holocaust have been identified, demanded back, passed down from generation to generation, and commodified. Focusing on Biłgoraj and Izbica (Poland), and Mir and Iŭje (Belarus), our objective is to determine whether the Jewish identity of personal belongings appropriated by local non-Jewish communities during, or in the aftermath of, ‘Holocaust by bullets,’ survived in the postwar communities in which they have been circulating, and define what role they played for the postwar relations between Jews and non-Jews.
{"title":"The second life of Jewish belongings–Jewish personal objects and their afterlives in the Polish and Belarusian post-Holocaust shtetls","authors":"Magdalena Waligórska, I. Sorkina","doi":"10.1080/17504902.2022.2047292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2022.2047292","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the ways in which Jewish personal belongings that have been appropriated by gentiles during, and in the aftermath of, the Holocaust have been identified, demanded back, passed down from generation to generation, and commodified. Focusing on Biłgoraj and Izbica (Poland), and Mir and Iŭje (Belarus), our objective is to determine whether the Jewish identity of personal belongings appropriated by local non-Jewish communities during, or in the aftermath of, ‘Holocaust by bullets,’ survived in the postwar communities in which they have been circulating, and define what role they played for the postwar relations between Jews and non-Jews.","PeriodicalId":36890,"journal":{"name":"Holocaust Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"341 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42181361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-22DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2022.2028433
N. Kaplan, B. Schwartz
ABSTRACT Many Historical events and persons have been forgotten for decades, centuries, even millennia before recovery. Until the 1980s, Raoul Wallenberg's efforts to rescue the Jews of Budapest from Nazi atrocities were rarely commemorated, even obscured, and largely forgotten, whether in Hungary, his home country of Sweden, or i9n Israel, where many of the people he rescued lived. This essay explores how political and social shifts enabled belated recognition of Wallenberg's deeds in Israel, primarily through the efforts of local agents working from below, with implications for understanding how historical memory is belatedly recovered more generally.
{"title":"Raoul Wallenberg in Israel recovered memory and mediocre commemoration","authors":"N. Kaplan, B. Schwartz","doi":"10.1080/17504902.2022.2028433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2022.2028433","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Many Historical events and persons have been forgotten for decades, centuries, even millennia before recovery. Until the 1980s, Raoul Wallenberg's efforts to rescue the Jews of Budapest from Nazi atrocities were rarely commemorated, even obscured, and largely forgotten, whether in Hungary, his home country of Sweden, or i9n Israel, where many of the people he rescued lived. This essay explores how political and social shifts enabled belated recognition of Wallenberg's deeds in Israel, primarily through the efforts of local agents working from below, with implications for understanding how historical memory is belatedly recovered more generally.","PeriodicalId":36890,"journal":{"name":"Holocaust Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"116 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47477866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-20DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2021.2016019
Galit Noga-Banai
ABSTRACT In recent months, debate has been swirling in Hamburg over the rebuilding of the Bornplatz synagogue. My concern is a work of art, ‘Synagogue Monument,’ a memorial created by local artist Margrit Kahl (1942–2009) to mark the fiftieth jubilee of the November pogrom. Kahl traced the synagogue’s outline with cobblestones, on its original scale, as well as its complex domed ceiling and vaulted spaces. At present, the inclination is to integrate the mosaic into the new synagogue. If this plan is carried out, the decisive features of this work of art would be destroyed, and with it the memory of the old local Jewish community. Moreover, it would come at the expense of the significant place Hamburg holds in German postwar memorial culture.
{"title":"The Bornplatz synagogue or Margrit Kahl’s mosaic? An art historical appeal to preserve Hamburg’s place in German postwar memory culture","authors":"Galit Noga-Banai","doi":"10.1080/17504902.2021.2016019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2021.2016019","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In recent months, debate has been swirling in Hamburg over the rebuilding of the Bornplatz synagogue. My concern is a work of art, ‘Synagogue Monument,’ a memorial created by local artist Margrit Kahl (1942–2009) to mark the fiftieth jubilee of the November pogrom. Kahl traced the synagogue’s outline with cobblestones, on its original scale, as well as its complex domed ceiling and vaulted spaces. At present, the inclination is to integrate the mosaic into the new synagogue. If this plan is carried out, the decisive features of this work of art would be destroyed, and with it the memory of the old local Jewish community. Moreover, it would come at the expense of the significant place Hamburg holds in German postwar memorial culture.","PeriodicalId":36890,"journal":{"name":"Holocaust Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"141 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45665849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-14DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2021.1979179
Alexis M. Lerner
ABSTRACT Holocaust archives have traditionally been the scholarly territory of the humanities. However, given the tremendous increase in the number of testimonies and documents available, especially in collections like the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and the Arolsen Archives, it is necessary to evaluate the applicability of a numerate approach. Not only could a quantitative lens disrupt traditional ways of housing, organizing, and analyzing data on the Holocaust, but quantitative tools may also revolutionize the way this genocide is taught and remembered. Above all, this article advocates for a careful and ethical approach to Holocaust research in the digital age.
{"title":"Quantifying the archives: leveraging the norms and tools of data science to conduct ethical research on the Holocaust","authors":"Alexis M. Lerner","doi":"10.1080/17504902.2021.1979179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2021.1979179","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Holocaust archives have traditionally been the scholarly territory of the humanities. However, given the tremendous increase in the number of testimonies and documents available, especially in collections like the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and the Arolsen Archives, it is necessary to evaluate the applicability of a numerate approach. Not only could a quantitative lens disrupt traditional ways of housing, organizing, and analyzing data on the Holocaust, but quantitative tools may also revolutionize the way this genocide is taught and remembered. Above all, this article advocates for a careful and ethical approach to Holocaust research in the digital age.","PeriodicalId":36890,"journal":{"name":"Holocaust Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"358 - 376"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45765819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-14DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2021.1979177
R. White
ABSTRACT The paper discusses a walking and multi-media arts project seeking to renew agency in Holocaust testimony and generate contemporary resonances. Forced Walks is a programme of speculative, socially engaged experiments, initiated by artists Richard White and Lorna Brunstein. Honouring Esther (2015–2017), the first Forced Walks project, walked the route of a Nazi Death March digitally transposed to Somerset (UK), subsequently retracing it in Lower Saxony, Germany. The project engaged walkers in co-creating an immanent reflective space materialized in mark-making, social media and installation. An emergent hybrid somatic/digital process, ‘making the return’ in a specific Holocaust context, is presented.
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