Vol 28 No 1 (2017): Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Memory
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Ethics and aesthetics of Holocaust memory
(the Donner Institute, 03.06.2017)Editorial for issue 28(1) of Scandinavian Jewish Studies, 'Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Memory'. -
Landscape, boundaries, and the limits of representation: The Stolpersteine as a commemorative space
(the Donner Institute, 03.06.2017)The article discusses the commemorative concept of Gunter Demnig’s ongoing art project Stolpersteine, which is considered one of the world’s largest decentralised Holocaust memorials. Stolpersteine are small, cobblestone-size ... -
The aesthetics and ethics of performative Holocaust memory in Poland
(the Donner Institute, 03.06.2017)This article addresses the performative dimension of the post-1989 Polish memorial culture of the Holocaust, characterised by a collaborative and audience-participatory model of remembering the Jewish victims. In this model ... -
The reconfiguration of the European Archive in contemporary German-Jewish migrant-literature: Katja Petrowskaja’s novel Vielleicht Esther
(the Donner Institute, 03.06.2017)A considerable number of Eastern European migrant authors of Jewish origin are currently lifting Holocaust memory to a new level. Writing in German about events taking place in remote areas of the world, they expand the ... -
‘Lightning flashes of my burning memory’: Dissociation and trauma in a second-generation perpetrator novella by Thomas Lehr
(the Donner Institute, 03.06.2017)Thomas Lehr’s novella Frühling (Spring, 2001) presents the last seconds of the fifty-year-old protagonist’s life – between the moment he shoots himself and the advent of his death. As an adolescent he realised he was the ... -
Presence and absence of the belated witness in two short stories by Mavis Gallant
(the Donner Institute, 03.06.2017)This essay extends Michael Levine’s theory of the ‘belated witness’ as an approach to the question of how Holocaust survival is represented in literature, by considering how the absence of such a witness is made perceptible ... -
Memory, shame and dignity
(the Donner Institute, 03.06.2017)'Memory, shame and dignity' is a presentation given by the Swedish journalist and author Göran Rosenberg at the Centre for the Study of Jewish Thought in Modern Culture, Copenhagen, 5 May 2015.