Remembering the Holocaust in Germany, Austria, Italy and Israel : : "vergangenheitsbewältigung" as a historical quest / / edited by Vincenzo Pinto.

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 attent...

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Superior document:Studies in Jewish History and culture ; 70
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Studies in Jewish history and culture.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Introduction The Meaning of History: Coming to Terms with the Past
  • Part 1 Articles
  • Chapter 1 "Coming to Terms with the Past" or "Policy for the Past"? The 1950s West German Compensations for Holocaust Survivors and German Expellees
  • Chapter 2 Austria's Repressed Guilt in Theory and Practice
  • Chapter 3 Coming to Terms with the Holocaust with Reference to Memorial Monuments in Europe: A Comparative Analysis
  • Chapter 4 Theodor W. Adorno, Günther Anders, and the Representation of the End Time: Beckett at Auschwitz
  • Chapter 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
  • Chapter 6 Between a Quest for a Heimat and Alienation: Jean Améry's Journey after Auschwitz
  • Chapter 7 "Denn fühlen die Mächtigen sich bedroht, so schlagen sie die Gerechten": Looking at History in König David Bericht by Stefan Heym
  • Chapter 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
  • Part 2 Testimonies
  • Testimony 1 Does a Past Pass?
  • Testimony 2 The Meaning of Italian "Resistenza"
  • Part 3 Appendices
  • Appendix 1 The Meaning of Working through the Past
  • 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)
  • Appendix 3 A Letter to Monica (25th April 1983)
  • Coming to Terms with the Past in Postwar Germany: A Bibliography
  • Index of Names and Places.