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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 attention in recent years, since the long transition to liberal democracy seems to have put an end to the main theme of the memory of the Second World War. The main point of the volume is the making of a new generational memory after the “end of history”. What is to be done after the making of a globalised world? What about the memorialisation of the last century?

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Author:   Vincenzo Pinto
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   70
Weight:   0.468kg
ISBN:  

9789004462229

ISBN 10:   9004462228
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   14 October 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Meaning of History: Coming to Terms with the Past  Vincenzo Pinto part 1: Articles 1 “Coming to Terms with the Past” or “Policy for the Past”? The 1950s West German Compensations for Holocaust Survivors and German Expellees  Iris Nachum 2 Austria’s Repressed Guilt in Theory and Practice  Claudia Leeb 3 Coming to Terms with the Holocaust with Reference to Memorial Monuments in Europe: A Comparative Analysis  Antonella Tiburzi 4 Theodor W. Adorno, Günther Anders, and the Representation of the End Time: Beckett at Auschwitz  Micaela Latini 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  Matteo Cavalleri 6 Between a Quest for a Heimat and Alienation: Jean Améry’s Journey after Auschwitz  Francesco Ferrari 7 “Denn fühlen die Mächtigen sich bedroht, so schlagen sie die Gerechten”: Looking at History in König David Bericht by Stefan Heym  Massimo De Villa 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  Carlo Trombino part 2: Testimonies Testimony 1: Does a Past Pass?  Gianerico Rusconi Testimony 2: The Meaning of Italian “Resistenza”  Alberto Cavaglion part 3: Appendices Appendix 1: The Meaning of Working through the Past  Theodor W. Adorno 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)  Richard von Weiszäcker Appendix 3: A Letter to Monica (25th April 1983)  Primo Levi Coming to Terms with the Past in Postwar Germany: A Bibliography  Stefano Aliberti Index of Names and Places

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Vincenzo Pinto, Ph.D. (1974) is an Italian historian, teacher, and journalist. He has published books, translations, and critical editions on Zionism, anti-Semitism, and Jewish contemporary identity. Among them, the biography of Ze'ev Vladimir Jabotinsky (2007) and the first Italian critical edition of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf (2017).

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